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Richard Raffan
Australia
Приєднався 15 гру 2012
Richard Raffan is a professional woodturner known internationally since the mid-1970s, first as a turner, and since 1985 for his woodturning books, videos, magazine articles, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops.
On this UA-cam channel you’ll see the tools and techniques I've refined over 53 years. There’s very little speeded up video and nothing is scripted…. you’ll watch live demos similar to those I used to do at clubs and symposiums - glitches and all. You'll see solutions to common woodturning problems.
To learn more about my life as a production turner and what I've made, and about my workshops and exhibitions, please go to www.richardraffan.com.au. There you'll also find listed my books and videos which explain my turning techniques in greater detail than these UA-cam videos.
Many thanks to Dave Segal who shot and edited the early videos plus a few of the later ones, and who encouraged me to get these videos online.
On this UA-cam channel you’ll see the tools and techniques I've refined over 53 years. There’s very little speeded up video and nothing is scripted…. you’ll watch live demos similar to those I used to do at clubs and symposiums - glitches and all. You'll see solutions to common woodturning problems.
To learn more about my life as a production turner and what I've made, and about my workshops and exhibitions, please go to www.richardraffan.com.au. There you'll also find listed my books and videos which explain my turning techniques in greater detail than these UA-cam videos.
Many thanks to Dave Segal who shot and edited the early videos plus a few of the later ones, and who encouraged me to get these videos online.
Richard Raffan turns knotty and split Himalayan cedar into a bowl.
You see how I turn a knotty resinous blank and deal with major splits. You see everything except the blank going on the chuck - I forgot to move the camera. You see all the sanding and finishing to show how short a time this can take.
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Richard Raffan turns a nut bowl from the scrap-end of a turning blank.
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You see the scrap-end of an endgrain blank turned into a small bowl ideal for nuts, or rings, or paperclips, or keys, or small change, or other small stuff. I hate to waste decent material.
Richard Raffan turns two scraps of box elder burl into one lidded bowl
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Two scraps of box elder burl could have become two small bowls, but I decide one box to be a better way to go. My apologies for my head blocking the camera occasionally. Blame the cameraman - me.
Richard Raffan turns a dish using ¾” continental gouge and scrapers.
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I turn this dish using a ¾-in continental gouge, a traditional tool that these days is usually kept only for roughing spindles but, as you'll see, it can also be used for facework. You see all the turning and sanding as I turn this plate.
Richard Raffan turning a tea box with a suction-fit lid
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Turning a large endgrain box with a suction-fit lid presents a few challenges. Here you see how I deal with them. The wood is West Australian forest sheoak.
Richard Raffan turning a chunky tripod dish
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Chunky bowls need not be clunky - the challenge is to get them feeling so good and well-balanced that when you pick them up you don't want to put them down. This one has three barely discernible feet. You see all the turning, but not all the sanding.
Richard Raffan turns an endgrain cup
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Here you see how I turn an endgrain cup from very dry elm.
Richard Raffan and his sanding stick for where fingers cannot reach.
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This short extract from a longer video shows my very useful sanding stick.
Richard Raffan turns his favourite item for the 16th 4-Ways project.
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This 4-Ways project is to turn my favourite item. I enjoy the challenge of turning simple bowls because simple - getting the proportions and curves just right, is never as easy as it might appear. On top of that, here I had problems hollowing the very hard gidgee, so you see how I clean up patches of torn grain on the inside of the bowl, and then deal with a few typical minor problems as I comp...
Richard Raffan transforms a scraper found in a garage sale into a boring tool for deep hollowing.
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Here you see the scraper I found in a garage sale with a not-very-useful end and split handle, transformed into a very useful heavy scraper for deep hollowing. You see the handle turned using just a skew chisel.
Richard Raffan turns two Himalayan cedar bowls. One survived.
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In this video things did not go as planned, so you see two bowls - or most of two bowls. Whilst trying to avoid the camera I turned through the side of the one bowl so made another. You see three-quarters of bowl one with commentary; then I just get on with the second bowl at something like normal speed until I'm back to where I was when I went through the first bowl.
Richard Raffan shows how to shorten or turn away endgrain without splintering the internal grain.
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Turning endgrain boxes, bowls, or tubes, you might need to shorten or remove the flange on a box, the end of a tube, or the rim of an endgrain bowl. This video shows how without splintering the grain on the inner wall.
Richard Raffan turns a square dish
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This 8-in /200mm square plate is the largest I can turn on my small lathe. It's Tasmanian eucalypt burl. As always, you see all the turning with most sanding speed up. At the end you see a 39-year-old bowl of the same material to indicates how this plate should darken with age and use.
Richard Raffan repurposes an old spindle gouge.
Переглядів 10 тис.Місяць тому
Elderly spindle gouges with little or no flute remaining can have another life. Here you see a ½" spindle gouge become a small spearpoint scraper that's good for turning small grooves and shear scraping.
Richard Raffan turns a pot stand from firewood.
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After a box I was re-turning exploded I turned the bowl into a lid and threw the base in my firewood sack. It was suggested I might have made something from the broken base and that what you see in this video. The lid-to-bowl video is ua-cam.com/video/1P1qqZi4Kwg/v-deo.html
Richard Raffan turns a yew box lid into a bowl.
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Richard Raffan turns a yew box lid into a bowl.
Richard Raffan: An Unhappy Re-turn - a wooodturning disaster movie.
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Richard Raffan: An Unhappy Re-turn - a wooodturning disaster movie.
Richard Raffan on turned box design.
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Richard Raffan on turned box design.
Richard Raffan turns a 9-sided plate for the 15th 4-Ways project
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Richard Raffan turns a 9-sided plate for the 15th 4-Ways project
Richard Raffan turns an 8"x3" bowl from very dry hard elm
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Richard Raffan turns an 8"x3" bowl from very dry hard elm
Richard Raffan turns a jewel box from splintery she oak.
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Richard Raffan turns a jewel box from splintery she oak.
Richard Raffan overcoming twisted cross-grain on a cylinder.
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Richard Raffan overcoming twisted cross-grain on a cylinder.
Richard Raffan saves wood, choosing a roughed bowl over shavings
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Richard Raffan saves wood, choosing a roughed bowl over shavings
Richard Raffan turns a cross-grain tripod pencil pot.
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Richard Raffan turns a cross-grain tripod pencil pot.
Richard Raffan turns a screw chuck spacer
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Richard Raffan turns a screw chuck spacer
Richard Raffan turns a thin pot using traditional gouges and scrapers.
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Richard Raffan turns a thin pot using traditional gouges and scrapers.
Richard Raffan creates a fantastical goblet for the 14th 4-Ways project.
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Richard Raffan creates a fantastical goblet for the 14th 4-Ways project.
Richard Raffan converts a cedar half-log to woodturning blanks
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Richard Raffan converts a cedar half-log to woodturning blanks
Richard Raffan turns a small box elder bowl
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Richard Raffan turns a small box elder bowl
Richard Raffan turns a 3" square box elder bowl
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Richard Raffan turns a 3" square box elder bowl
Great video ! One of the things I love about UA-cam videos like this is the incidental things you learn unexpectedly. It has never occurred to me to use old socks for polishing. What a good idea ! Mine won’t be going into the recycling anymore. Thank you 🙏
On this channel you'll find the socks have their own fan club....
Good morning Richard - another question - it is my 70 birthday in the middle of August and my wife would like to buy me another Chuck - I have an Axminster Clubman SK100 on order with my lathe and gouges etc - which other chuck would be helpful at my stage (beginner) to help me turn boxes and small-ish bowls please? Phil
I don't think you can find any chuck better than a Vicmarc. I'd go for a VM100 with 55mm Shark Jaws or a VM120 with 68mm Shark Jaws. Which chuck depends in part on the size of your lathe and the size of your proposed boxes. Ideally you'd have both as well as some Step jaws which are very handy when roughing bowls in quantity. .
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you Richard. Phil
Gorgeous piece of wood. I am always amazed how a simple bead can add so much interest to a piece. Do you have to purchase a lot of wood now that you are doing so many videos?
I'm working through seasoned blanks I've had lying around for years. I don't intend to purchase more timber, so it's fortunate I rarely see any seasoned timber I'd want to buy.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Sounds like you are like everyone who turns. The definition of a woodturner is someone who collects more wood than they can turn in a lifetime.
Amazing to see you take what most people would consider an unusable piece of wood and turn it into another beautifully turned bowl. I really appreciate you talking us through your findings as you go and explaining how you make decisions when faced with issues. Thank you so much for sharing.
Nice job and good reinforcement of the idea of just getting rid of the defects. I struggle with that. Too may botched fills in my past. Just cut it out is more in my future. I really like this type of figure in the wood.
Very nice the grain and color is beautiful. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you very much. You've now inspired me to go turn a bunch of boxes. You are very very helpful to me keep them coming
vibrant grain colors and strong aroma of cedars!
I thought for a while there that you were going to end up with a thimble!
Now who would have thought Woodturning could be political...right wings and left wings ... tsk lol Thats super resinous stuff it must smell amazing Beautiful little bowl. Thanks for sharing
Love the color, love the figure, love the shape, love it all. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Thanks Glen.
Hi Richard, Is the blank an end grain one?
This is crossgrain. At the beginning of the video you clearly see the pith lies across the blank rather than on each face.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thanks Richard
Quite instructive seeing you deal with the various defects in the wood to achieve a very nice looking bowl. When I was making furniture, one of the icons of the furniture designers made the statement that he would keep a piece of lumber around until it told him what it wanted to be. It strikes me that this is even more true in the turning craft as you demonstrated on this particular blank -- the initial flaws you identified and then the additional surprises within the blank drove the design to something that wasn't what you initially planned but to a very nice looking result.
It happens with carving too. I like metal working because what you envision is in the piece of metal is there you just need the skills or tools to get it out... I love woodturning and carving because they are far more artistic and organic in the process not just the medium, ideas have to move along with the wood as you work. I don't like all this acrylic and resin work people are doing at the moment because it takes away the fluidity of the natural wood.
Beautiful piece.
A couple more cracks and you would have made a fine little plate. Fun to watch as always.
I love turning cedar and some species of pines with knots. excellent demo as always.
Hi Richard, The rolls of sanding paper from the USA arrived yesterday (Friday 28 June) - I know the shipping costs were expensive, over £33.00 but the items were here in a few days. I have a QUESTIONS - 1. I see you normally use Bees Wax to finish off your pieces but do you ever use a Wood Sealer - if so when should I apply it and 2. What would you recommend as a finish to get a shinny finish? Thank you very much for all your very helpful and educational videos. Phil
I never see the point of sealing utilitarian items as the seal eventually fails, thus presenting a refinishing problem. I can't help regards shiny finishes because I've never used them on what I make. I prefer soft matt surfaces and patinas that develop with use and constant handling - the sort of patina not available in bottles or cans.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you so much for your reply. It is good to know I am not the only person up at this time of day. I am a complete novice when it comes to wood turning, so maybe I should re-think my ideas about finishes. I like the natural look of wood and thought that having a shiny finish would bring out the grain better, but I guess I am wrong. Any help is gratefully received. Phil
@@PhilStevensphilongold An odd problem with shiny finishes is that viewers often focus on the polish and not what is under it.
@@dermotbalaam5358 Thanks - sound thinking. Phil
As ever, RR's advice is most sound & I've been following his instruction for 12-15 years. As I gradually became more confident in making modest bowls, I eventually purchased a chestnut products buffing wheel kit, which can 'enhance' the oil finish if required. No one has ever asked me for a high gloss finish, but they do seem to prefer a slight sheen as opposed to entirely matt. I say spend no money just now, but make as much fancy firewood & mess on the floor as you have time for & watch things develop. Stick to this channel too, there are many others to avoid. Good luck.
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Basically as many scrapers as possible
Basically the tools I've use for 50 years to make living as a turner.
Thank you for this. That wood has such an interesting grain pattern in it. Looks like marble. Love it.
Curious about your beeswax the block I buy is rather hard. Is there a way that you get the hard wax softer to get it into your rag
The wax is melted by friction on to and into the wood. The sustained pressure of the rag melts the wax further into the wood with surplus melting into the rag. Eventually the rag is so full of wax that, with some timbers, application of the waxy rag is sufficient.
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Hello, I am Italian and confused about what a continental gauge is: a bowl gouge? Sometimes it’s so hard to translate the technical terms. Could you clarify please? Thanks
It's a long and strong shallow gouge, typically called a continental gouge in Britain and North America. These days mostly used as a spindle roughing gouge, but it used to be used for turning bowls as well.
Your masterclasses are treasure! Thank you endlessly!
What is your favorite rpm for making it from square to round
I have said it before but I have no idea how this channel... with the godfather of wood turning.. does not have 1M subscribers!
Beautifully done! The pair look so good together. And always a pleasure to watch and learn from you sir. Thank you!
Nice little bowl, thanks for sharing your years of knowledge and skill Richard.
Just amazing work. Watching your actions and processes are mind blowing for me as a new turner. Keep up the amazing work. 👽
As always, such a pure pleasure watching a master describe his design process and produce a beautiful lidded pot from a couple of off-cuts. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
The voice over works very well.😊
Very nice, thanks for another great video.
It amazes me every time I watch you. I know you own a bowl gouge but I bet it is covered in dust.
This is an endgrain bowl so centrework techniques apply. I use bowl gouges for roughing down very large centrework blanks and hollowing crossgrain bowls.
Thanks for sharing Richard
Well done Richard. That is a very nice little bowl. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
A lovely little bowl. Very glad to see it next to its big brother. As always you explain your techniques with great clarity, my thanks. The socks, waxy and less waxy, keep doing socking good duty. Thanks for another entertaining and educational video.
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Just a tip, do not put Box Elder near your house, nice tree but surface roots will destroy your lawn, sidewalk, driveway, foundation...... whatever, I speak from experience.
So do we.....
Brilliant. Love the waxy sock and less waxy sock 🤣. Thanks again Richard for sharing your no waffle commentary and expertise.
I really like watching projects like these -- simple, elegant shapes and seeing the tool use and jam chuck fitting is very helpful.
Great looking bowls, Richard. I love making little ones like that also. I would really like to know what oil you used to fill the end grain with. It was obviously quick and easy to use. Thank you!
I'm trying rice bran oil and it seems to be ideal.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Never would have guessed! Thank you.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturningIs this the stuff from the grocery shop ?
@@timmurden5846 Yes, from Aldi in this instance.
@RichardRaffanwoodturning thanks Richard , I didn't know you had Aldi in Oz,I'min the UK ,I'll have to give it a try 👍🏻
Interesting tip about the grain direction and cutting the inside first. I will put that in my pocket and remember for a similar situation. Thanks
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Lucky nuts! I see you changed up your usual decoration on the bottom of the bowl. Any reason for that?
Endgrain usually gets grooves because they're quick and easy, crossgrain gets gouge-turned or scraped beads for cleaner cuts.
Thanks Richard I like making these sized bowls. I just ordered a step jaw set of your signature vicmarc 128mm i think for my 120 chuck anyway thanks again. ( Packard woodwork) have been using the shark jaws often.
As always it's a pleasure to see how easy you make it look. I can only aspire and practice.
Excellent, thank you
Sometimes turning small things is just as fun as turning large things. Nice job!
... and usually requiring more skill.
I had the pleasure of meeting Richard Raffan when I was a member of the Toowoomba and District Woodworking Turning Club, a group of fifty members hired a large bus 🚌 and the hire of the bus was included in the price.