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  1. Ken Sherwin

    How to increase wall thickness of 1 ring

    I export both my Segment Pro and Wood Turner Pro results to Excel so I can sort on different columns for different steps in the process. If I used SP and wanted ring 7 to have an inch smaller diameter, I would just increase the ring 7 board width by .500 and start cutting. The SEL controls the...
  2. Ken Sherwin

    Amount of wood needed.

    That's why they call it "The Vortex". It's just like a marriage. It's not the initial cost that's expensive. It's the upkeep!
  3. Ken Sherwin

    Gaps between rings

    I use my lathe as my glue press, holding each ring in a chuck with Cole jaws on the tailstock. Gently grip this ring as this chuck only locates the ring. To eliminate cumulative error from my sloppy flattening results, I dry fit the next ring to the base or previous ring, rotating the...
  4. Ken Sherwin

    Amount of wood needed.

    I considered using my bandsaw to cut the segment ends but decided the cut was too rough for a good glue joint so I never actually tried it. If I had 1 bandsaw and 1 table saw, I would use a coarser blade in the bandsaw and rip sticks from the stock with it because the surface finish on the ID...
  5. Ken Sherwin

    Amount of wood needed.

    I tried the cutlist method but always had several pieces of wood left that were just barely too small to use but too big to toss. I have 2 saws so I set one up to rip and one to crosscut segments then sort my rings data by board width. Being lazy, I try to keep all my ring heights the same and...
  6. Ken Sherwin

    how do i separate a box top in the software?

    The smart-alec answer is to just not glue that ring on both sides. I'll see myself out now.
  7. Ken Sherwin

    Gaps between rings

    If you have to put weights on the rung to close the gaps, either the glue was not spread evenly or the ring was not actually flat. Once I have the glue where I think it's spread out evenly (you know it really isn't), I lightly put the ring face to be glued against the piece and rotate it...
  8. Ken Sherwin

    Gaps between rings

    I flatten both sides of every ring before I start my glueup so that I don't have to wait for the glue to completely cure between rings. Holding the ring with Cole jaws and just the flathead screws (leave the rubber bumpers off) works really well. How you do it and in what order you use is not...
  9. Ken Sherwin

    Gaps between rings

    If the vessel is either still mounted or can be remounted on the lathe, I would contemplate using a point tool or skew to carve a V groove at some or all the glue lines between rings and highlight the glue lines. I would do more than one and even consider some in the rings. The idea is to make...
  10. Ken Sherwin

    Quick question

    Your question seems to be about the inside diameter of a ring or row. (Every ring is a row but not every row is a ring, to be cleared up momentarily.) The outside diameter of a row is controlled only by the segment edge length (SEL) and the inside diameter relative to the outside diameter is...
  11. Ken Sherwin

    Sled - Wedgie ?

    Second question first. The sides of each fence arm are absolutely, strictly parallel, right? Therefore the angle from one side of either fence to the other side of that same fence is always 0.0000 degrees. Therefore it doesn't make any difference where you measure the angle from one arm to...
  12. Ken Sherwin

    Question about WTP

    Got it. Thank you.
  13. Ken Sherwin

    Question about WTP

    So vertical spacers go between the segments in a ring and thus increases effective SEL and the outside diameter? What happens with an open segment row? My next piece has both.
  14. Ken Sherwin

    Question about WTP

    Having used Segment Pro successfully for several years, I now discover a need for some features of WTP. While most of it is straightforward, I can't find anything that tells me what the 'Vertical Spacers' value is or what I should do with it. Can anybody help me understand?
  15. Ken Sherwin

    Off Center

    That's what I was doing wrong.
  16. Ken Sherwin

    Off Center

    I tried building a stomper and did something wrong. The telescoping pole was too flexible to maintain good concentricity. I too use the Segeasy plate for open segments but I use my 1953 Shopsmith in vertical mode to build my open rings. My drill press wouldn't work because the table could...
  17. Ken Sherwin

    Adding/Deleting rows

    I wanted to change the height of each ring in an open segment vase that had a narrow neck so that every segment was essentially square. Segment Pro doesn't do this, of course, but that's all I knew. I set the ring height at 0.100 which gave me 90 rings! Then I exported the segment data to...
  18. Ken Sherwin

    Segeasy videos

    That works. Thank you.
  19. Ken Sherwin

    Segeasy videos

    When I go to segeasy.com to see Jerry's videos now, they come up blank on both my phone and computer. Does anybody else have that problem? I want to refer some newbies to them but not if they're dead.
  20. Ken Sherwin

    Floating bottom for urn

    To be sure we're talking about the same thing, in my shop, a floating bottom is a solid disk fitted into a rabbet in a ring and is captured with the next ring. I hold it in place with just a dot of glue at each side along the long grain. If I wanted it leakproof to dust, I would make the OD...
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