wrote:
This is something I've wanted to try, seems like it'd be a real
challenge, just wondering if I could do it small enough for a bottle
stopper top. I've seen ornaments that are really cool done this way,
just nothing as small as a stopper.

Any opinions, suggestions, links?

Hi, Ruth,
I've not tried an inside/out stopper yet, but here's how I would do it:
After the inside has been turned and the 4 squares are glued permanently
together, I'd mount the piece in a scroll chuck with the bottom facing
the tailstock. If you sand the inside corners off a bit before gluing
(only at the bottom), there will be a little square hole to poke the
tailstock into for centering the piece before tightening the chuck jaws.
This will also make a good "pilot hole" for drilling the 3/8" hole for
the dowel(I'm still using florentine corks) or the new Niles SS stopper,
if we are fortunate enough to have acquired any of those

After that, it's up to you if you want to turn the outside with the top
held in the chuck, or reverse mount it on a spindle in the hole. But at
least the hole is drilled on center, and you can clean up the bottom
before reverse mounting.

Take a peek at one of my photo albums with inside/out ornaments, and a
link to a pdf tutorial on making them if that helps:
http://www.crwoodturner.com/gallery/grunke_ornaments

Ken Grunke
http://www.token.crwoodturner.com/

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