Hanging wood

[shakes]

Two Questions here:

1) At what point do those of you hang shafts, butts, rounds or squares hange them up? After the first cut, later on? Is there anything wrong with hanging squares immediately after purchasing them, instead of stickering/stacking them on shelves?

2) What is the exact process and material for hanging? As in, do you just centerdrill and use that as a starter hole for the hook? Or do you actually use a full length drill and just use the hooks threads to hold it up? What size are the hooks that you are using?

Okay, so maybe there's more than two questions. How about two question groupings? LOL.

Thanks guys.
~Shakes

 

[Cue Crazy]

Hey Shakes,

I'm afraid I can't be of as much help in this area as others could, because I have used partials up to recently Myself, but I Have been starting on My first batch of shafts, and have done some test cuts also.

Here is a centerfinding tool I made for marking shaft centers, afterwards I use a carbide scribe to mark the center, then center punch, and center drill. Works really good, but you can buy them cheaper then what the effort is worth. This type tool works well for marking centers on straight shafts, with minimal runnout. I'm lucky because a good friend and member here, supplied me with some decent shaft dowels, and it seems this method will work fine for them. If you get into shafts with extreme runnout though, It could be a different story, and I'm really not as experienced in that and will let someone else that is explain what they do. I've talked to several people that are, and seems opinions vary as to which end of the shaft to use where. In the end it's just more questions to ask yourself due to personal preference & evaluating the shafts characteristics to make your decisions. One end usually has tighter grain then the other, as well as one end maybe the side that the grain likes to runoff on. Combine that with any runnout in the shaft, how Bad it is also, because there may only be one side to put that end torward if the runnout is extreme.

Squares alot would depend on If your trying to save points from it or not. If not then It's pretty straight forward, try to find dead center and mark them. Sometimes the centerfinder works perfect if the squares are perfectly square to begin with, but that's not always the case, and I sometimes have to breakout a ruler to help me find them.


The hooks, I use are fairly small, they are just 5/8 brass plated cup hooks. They are small but seem to hold well for me, and don't mess My center holes up. I have tried a sample of J hooks a friend sent me to try out, and they seem to work nicely as well, but don't remember what size they are.

I don't hang My squares until they are turned round. When It comes to shafts I believe the opinions will vary as to whether it best to hang them or use a shaft rack to allow for natural movement in between the turning proccess. I'm starting to sway more toward the rack from My experiences thus far.

Greg

 

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Two Questions here:

1) At what point do those of you hang shafts, butts, rounds or squares hange them up? After the first cut, later on? Is there anything wrong with hanging squares immediately after purchasing them, instead of stickering/stacking them on shelves?

2) What is the exact process and material for hanging? As in, do you just centerdrill and use that as a starter hole for the hook? Or do you actually use a full length drill and just use the hooks threads to hold it up? What size are the hooks that you are using?

Okay, so maybe there's more than two questions. How about two question groupings? LOL.

Thanks guys.
~Shakes

As soon after arrival that I have a chance I center drill both ends of shaft wood and then hang. I have a cabinet that will hold about 400 shaft blanks and about 300 turned hardwood blanks. I keep my turned handle wood in drawers in another cabinet along with plastics and such. I use brass cup hooks to go into the assorted dowells and in the cabinet I have strips of wood on tracks with hooks to hang the dowells from. I can pull a strip out of the cabinet and it will have 25 dowells hanging that I can take a look at and snag whichever one I want. The cabinet utilizes space very well

Dick

 

[BLACKHEARTCUES]

I don't hang anything. I store the squares laying flat. Once I turn them I stre them standing upright in racks...JER

 

[hadjcues]

My shafts start as boards then cut up into squares... squares are just store racked up in piles. After the first turn I stand 'em in a rack where they stay after quite a number of turns spanning months... I start hanging shfts when they are aroungf .890 until finished.

 

[MVPCues]

As soon after arrival that I have a chance I center drill both ends of shaft wood and then hang. I have a cabinet that will hold about 400 shaft blanks and about 300 turned hardwood blanks. I keep my turned handle wood in drawers in another cabinet along with plastics and such. I use brass cup hooks to go into the assorted dowells and in the cabinet I have strips of wood on tracks with hooks to hang the dowells from. I can pull a strip out of the cabinet and it will have 25 dowells hanging that I can take a look at and snag whichever one I want. The cabinet utilizes space very well

Dick

Any way you can take a couple of pics of this cabinet and post? It sounds intriguing.
Kelly