Tomislav Tomasic gets the camera lens right down on the cutting edge of various tools, carefully showing and explaining where the cutting edge is presented to the wood. He even demonstrates how a skew makes a nasty catch. I haven't looked for them, but he has other how-to videos, and a lot of project videos, too, which I watch for entertainment. A protege of Raffan (with a bit better video skills...). I think he is doing a great job of passing on skills to the next generation. Well, except some of those bad production turner habits like adjusting a tool rest with the wood spinning, and mounting wood to a spinning screw chuck. But other than those, nice work.
View: https://youtu.be/82iOnbKLVLM?
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Tomislav Tomasic video, up close on the tool edge
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I do like how he teaches. Most of his videos are too long for my attention span though....
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Me too!
Many craft and workshop videos are a bit too long for me, too. Incl. Raffan and Tomislav, but I enjoy watching anyway. I solve this by hitting the settings button on the youtube screen (gear wheel button), choosing playback speed, and bring it up to the x1.25 or x1.5 setting. A 15 minute video is done in 7-10 minutes, and even the speaking is not altered so much to be indesipherable.
I make time for Richard Raffan's videos!
I do like Richard Raffan. He's putting so much of his lifetime of turning knowledge out there for free now, making sure the next generation gets a start. And in a pretty modest way. A tiny shop where his dust collector sits outside. A 12" swing lathe (albeit not a cheap 12" lathe) to make 4 and 5 and 6-inch projects. "Use a spindle gouge for this operation, save your expensive bowl gouge for when you really need it." (Paraphrasing.) Being humble about having 2 lumps of wood fail before the third works. More than once having a piece fly off the lathe. Yep, he's a treasure.
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I enjoy (and subscribe) to both Tomislav and Richard Raffan's channels (as well as Sam Angelo, Mike Peace, John Lucas, to name a few others) To me, they are all worth the time to watch them. I can almost always come away from watching every video with at least *SOMETHING* new learned each time (even if it is only some little detail that might take up all of a 30 second video clip..)
Technology is interesting, four years ago when I first entered high school, I didn't know what a lathe was. Two years ago I bought a lathe knowing nearly nothing, today I am looking for antique thread chasers, making my tools, and having a refrigerator kiln. I could argue that I learned a lot through hours in the shop. Still, I watched nearly every video from and about Raffan, Tomislav, Mike Peace, Sam Angelo, Bill Jones, Alan Stratton, Ashley Harwood, @robo hippy, Glenn Lucas, Kerry Korney, Sean from Wortheffort, Steve Jones, and others. As someone who has only been turning for two years, I am grateful that there is so much information from professionals and masters available. They are all inspirations and teachers more than anyone I know in real life.
@Isaac Litster, that is great to read about! All the best to you as you continue forward and create your trail through life.
Have you come across any other young folk who have discovered similar inspiration to work and create using a combination of mind, spirit, and body? Anyone who has the spark of understanding that anything in this world that is worth doing takes genuine effort and is worth doing well? These are cornerstones to a foundation of lifetime curiosity, learning, undertanding, and success, and I hope that on occasion you come across the opportunity to share these traits with others.
Good for you, I wish you a lifetime full of these things, in everything you set out to do.
Have you come across any other young folk who have discovered similar inspiration to work and create using a combination of mind, spirit, and body? Anyone who has the spark of understanding that anything in this world that is worth doing takes genuine effort and is worth doing well? These are cornerstones to a foundation of lifetime curiosity, learning, undertanding, and success, and I hope that on occasion you come across the opportunity to share these traits with others.
Good for you, I wish you a lifetime full of these things, in everything you set out to do.
wonderful teacher!
I really enjoy watching his videos, and what a humble man!
Ditto. I learned sooooo much from watching his platter video (making a nice ogee does not come naturally to me). And his Harvey Lathe videos helped the decision-making on this lathe for two of us in the last few months.
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