Very informative videos!!! You have mentioned your Amazon store in some videos. How can I find it?

Thank you, Mike!

Thanks Mike, I appreciate you sharing all your knowledge.

Great info, thanks Mike

Thank you for the helpful guidance.

Thank You Mike, for another great video. By far, I've learned the most about wood turning from your videos, even bought a Revo 1216 and love it. Keep up the great work, I'm sure for each person like me, there are hundreds more that haven't expressed their appreciation for one reason or another. You are much appreciated.

Good information Mike. Especially the warning about hanging onto the chuck when retracting from a hole. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.

More great ideas Mike ..... thanks for sharing.

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Great video Mike.

Thanks

Very, very helpful, thank you!😊

A lot of good tips Mike,thanks for sharing,cheers Colin.

Excellent job. The video was more than a refresher, there was info I didn't know.

Good info Mike. Take care Cheers Harold

Your motto should be “necessity is the mother of invention “. Thanks for sharing.

Great advice Mike! I learned a lot of what I can and can't do with my lathe.

Excellent information. I was going to comment on your different types of drill chucks video: One of the reasons I have two drill chucks is so I can quickly and easily switch between two drill bits. For example, when drilling I like to start with a 'center drill bit', before switching to a standard twist bit. Center bits are short and stout, making drilling precisely centered holes simple and easy. With two drill chucks, I can have one with the center bit and the other with the standard twist bit. If I'm just drilling one blank, I probably won't bother with this. But, if I'm batching out a bunch of blanks, I really like this approach.

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Great video, Mike! The suggestion to keep the left hand on the drill chuck is critical, but the chuck can still spin, and if its a keyed chuck, the outer diameter is rough and can hurt. DAMHIKT! I always wear a kevlar 'carver's' glove on my left hand when drilling to protect my hand. The tailstock on some smaller lathes has a bit of 'wiggle' typically less than a degree, but still enough to be a problem when drilling. The solution is simple - center the bit on that dimple before locking down the tailstock. Forstner bits are ideally meant for drilling face grain. Drilling large holes in end grain with Forstner's is tough work. It helps to drill a small hole first, and then up in steps to reach the final diameter. And I seem to recall a wise person saying that twist drills work better in end-grain if the hole is 1" or smaller. Finally, when drilling long shafts (eg, for walking canes) on lathes with a short bed, a trick that I have used is to make the piece in segments that are ultimately glued together using dowels. The trick is to get a good match at the joins. I find that if I make the segments short enough, I can dry-fit two together and mount the combination between centers for final sizing of the diameters - often using only sandpaper. Grain match is another thing - I will sometimes insert a short segment of contrasting wood to celebrate the join rather than try to get a perfect grain match.

Thank you so much. I was turning my very first pen and whilst drilling, the chuck got stuck in the blank and came out snapping my bit. For the life of me I could not figure out what I had done wrong. Your video has cleared that up. Keep your hand on the chuck while retracting it. Thank you!!

An additional thought: Many lathes have hollow tailstock quills. Many live centers are hollow, too. If you take the point out of the live center, you can mount the blank between centers and drill the blank through the tailstock. The type of drill bit used for this kind of work is commonly called a 'lamp drill' or a 'lamp auger'. This allows you to drill a fairly long blank on a fairly small lathe. The only limitation is the diameter of the hole is limited by what can go through the tailstock/live center. Generally, the maximum diameter is 3/8".

Thanks, Mike, I found that useful despite being familiar with all but one technique. Using the spindle gouge looked really fast, and whilst I have seen it demonstrated many times, have never felt confident with the technique, and have used it only a couple of times. So more practice on that listed. Never used a handled drill bit, so far. The new item was the long drill steady; potentially very useful to me. Good to emphasise making a centre divot first. Thanks again. Bernard.

Hey Mike, like your idea using a 'cross pocket' jig. do you have a video showing how you made it? Phil

The problem with the jacobs chuck coming out happened to me tonight. Only damage was the drill broke at the neck of the hole leaving the drill bit inside the hole and flung the Jacobs chuck to the side of the shop. Just needed some expertise from you Mr Peace to avoid that error happening again.

Nice vid. - at 11:33, important not to hold the flutes of the drill (as you've shown). My tailstock is MT1 and sometimes the chuck holding the drill will come free, so the drill will turn at the speed of the headstock. If your fingers are on the flutes when that happens, you get cut :( Not so much of a problem with larger morse tapers. Thanks for posting. :)

I LOVE the crotch pocket! Thanks

Hey mike any advice how to drill long grain on the lathe? I turned some traditionel wood thread dowels intended for leg vices for a woodworkers bench. Is it best drilled on a drill press with a very large vice? The diameter is 5 inches and the hole is 1 inch and 1/8"

Hi. When I drill holes about 140mm long 7mm diameter it goes skew. How can I do better? Thanks. Your videos are very helpful.

Occasionally, the chuck or morse taper drill bit will rotate in the tailstock if the bit gets hung up in the work. Holding the chuck helps prevent that. Holding a Morse taper drill bit by hand is a potential disaster, and I use a wrench.

Trying to purchase via your affiliate links (like to help out and buy recommended products) but many of your links are out of stock with no availability dates) and one is an incorrect link reference. Thanks for the excellent videos!

Where do you get your jacket/smock that you have on?

I see you have an old Sears trash can still around. Lol