Day 42: lessons learned

No photos tonight, I gave a lesson to a fellow turner on how to turn collars for hollow forms.  He brought over 2 Mesquite hollow forms he'd recently finished along with a chunk of Wenge for the collars.  I turned the first one and the he turned the second.  We used a shop made jig I call a compression chuck.  I use similar jigs and techniques to turn the solid wood rings that i use for bases on some of my round bottom bowls.