Ken:
Unless you object I will add a link to our website. Like Darrell
Feltmates's site it seems to me to be valuable information for turners
in general. So I will add it on the next update....
Between you and Darrell Feltmate you have got me _really_ interested in
what I can do to add to the repertoire.
Hat's off to both of you.
Ken Grunke wrote:
Will wrote:
Ken:
Understand on the eccentric. I have a 4 jaw chuck and already tested
the idea a few days ago... So I understand the approach. Your gizmo
really simplifies the idea... It takes a light touch to carve the wood
then... LOL
I had a good look at the following...
49boxelderOrnament-med.jpg
Is that a compound turning? That and the other similar ornaments
really intrigue me. Are they turned in multiple parts and assembled?
i.e. turn spindles finials and globes separately? Then glued...? If
they are turned as one piece where can I sign up for classes...? :-)
Will, those are inside-out turnings. I first discovered the technique in
an English woodturning mag from 1997, then I gave a demo on inside/out
ornaments for our AAW chapter in 2002--I prepared a printout for the
demo which is available as a PDF file he
http://www.crwoodturner.com/howto.html
Printed... Slick love the write-up.
In a nutshell, four square sticks are temporarily glued together, with
what will be the insides facing out. The inside profiles are turned,
then the pieces are seperated and permanently glued back together with
the turned profiles facing inward. The outside is turned to follow the
inside profile(s), plus whatever stem or finial shapes desired.
I will be trying this as soon as the current project is off the lathe. :-)
We are turning some oak spindles for a solid Oak stool for the shop.
SWMBO is tired of standing at the scroll saw.
We just agreed on a simple spindle design so I will do what I can
tomorrow...
I had her do about 3/4 of the rough turning so she is getting a feel for
the lathe as well now.
This afternoon I sent her off to work out the angles and lengths and all
that stuff for _her_ shop stool. Didn't realize she had forgotten all
her trigonometry so I was in doo-doo for a few minutes. Got her back on
track -- hadn't noticed that she was gone for an hour and a half cause I
was working on other stuff. So I showed her how to determine lengths of
spindles based on height above floor and how to write an equation
(inequality for those who care) that gives you minimum and maximum
lengths based on the height of the bottom of the stool seat plate, angle
of the legs, maximum spindle allowed in the lathe and the height of the
spindle above the floor. Now she agrees it isn't that tough -- just
seems like it if you haven't done it for a while... The only real
problem it turned out was that she changed her reference point and did
half the calculations with different references from the first half...
Now that would have been an interesting set of stool legs and spindles...
What upset her is that it really only takes about 10 minutes to work all
the math back and forth a few times till you get a design you like...
Live and learn...
Maybe I should write that one up so people could copy it and make
designs for custom stools by plugging in a couple of numbers... :-)
The traditional method for temporarily gluing wood is using paper
between the joints, so they are easily seperated. In my tutorial, I
recommended using a small dab of superglue (CA glue) on one end only,
the tailstock end. The headstock end would be held in a 4-jaw scroll
chuck. Gluing at one end only makes it easier to pry the pieces apart,
and almost everyone's got a 4-jaw scroll chuck these days.
Probably not as cheap as the one I just got at Busy Bee. LOL ($25 new
and worth every penny. LOL) Hopefully I can turn a few bowls with it
before I get a _real_ chuck.
I saw a few eccentric turnings that you did -- now that would be an
interesting way to make a golf club head -- not that I play golf. An
Ironwood head should make an interesting driver -- assuming the chisels
don't melt first. :-)
Since then, I've discovered that double-stick tape works great--the
stuff for plastic storm window sheeting. An inch or so at the tailstock
end is enough, as long as pressure is applied with a c-clamp for a few
seconds.
The PDF file goes into more detail, knock yourself out and have fun!
I will -- so will the other half. She just doesn't know what she is in
for yet. :-)
Ken Grunke
member & webmaster, Coulee Region Woodturners of SW Wisconsin
http://www.crwoodturner.com/
Natural Rotations Woodturning
http://www.token.crwoodturner.com/
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Many thanks...
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Will
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