Turning the Spinarettes and then The Pegs gave me a pretty
good handle on turning small. So I turned some dropplets
and then . . .

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...Turning16.html

charlie b

nice idea indeed.
Now make the "water" a lighter shade of wood
and add a bucket handle of some bendable cane.
wonder what will happen if you take care to turn a piece with
the fibers going along the main axis and then try to slightly bend the
spinarette
so as to make an illusion of a splash going three ways at once
(three spinarettes connected at the bottom, or fatsened really close
by and bending outward in different directions)
max63

Charlie, nice work. I like the one on the left. Really looks like
droplets.
Tony Manella
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http://home.ptd.net/~ndd1/
Lehigh Valley Woodturners
www.lehighvalleywoodturners.com

"charlieb" wrote in message
...
Turning the Spinarettes and then The Pegs gave me a pretty
good handle on turning small. So I turned some dropplets
and then . . .

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...Turning16.html

charlie b

Hi Charlie, Not only fine work, but your Cliche Series is also a great
idea. We want more! I once turned a flat, boring, dull platter and
named it "platitude" and I thought about trying to turn some net icons,
but I didn't get a 'roundtuit'.


I'm 'pleased and proud' that you 'stepped up to the plate' with
'thinking outside the box'. I know turning those Dropplets didn't go
'smooth as silk' and the 'few and far between' ones that were 'tough as
rawhide' and 'hard as 'whitleather' must have been a 'pain in the neck'.
I don't know a pun from a cliche or a 'hawk from a handbasket', but
since it's 'clear as mud' that 'the devil is in the details' please 'let
me off the hook' and 'live and let live'.

I can see by 'the light at the end of the tunnel' that these 'off the
cuff' and 'over the top' suggestions for adding to your Cliche Series
aren't 'top drawer'. 'Suffice it to say' I'll 'pick up the pieces' and
'see who salutes'. These are 'offered for your corrections and
additions' :

"Flat as a pancake"

"Tooth & nail"

"can of corn"

"parting of the ways"

"straight & narrow"

"better half"

"attached hereto"

"last straw"

"golden parachute"


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........and just maybe:
"Turn to safety"
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I didn't 'have it in mind' to 'assume the mantle' of 'a pain in the
butt' by 'highjacking your thread'. It's only meant to be 'tongue in
cheek', not 'chiselled in stone'. 'That said', It's all 'in the eye of
the beholder'. anyway.

I 'march to a different drummer' and after this post, I'll be 'drummed
out' of rcw and forced to 'leave the building'. knowatimsain?


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter


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Max63 wrote:

wonder what will happen if you take care to turn a piece with
the fibers going along the main axis and then try to slightly bend the
spinarette so as to make an illusion of a splash going three ways at once
(three spinarettes connected at the bottom, or fatsened really close
by and bending outward in different directions)

Interesting ideas. Will give it a try for I'm sure I'll be playing
with
this Dropplet Idea some more

And here's what I came up with - off the top of my head - for your
suggestions Arch.

'thinking outside the box'.
A semi-egg shaped turned “brain” - with a left and right hemishphere
and carved convolutions - turned from a white straight grained poplar
next to a turned lidded box (just to make it a little less obvious)
turned
in a dark prominently grained wood. A small area of the “brain” in the
frontal lobe area could be gold leafed and a few rhinestones added to
represent a thought or two.

'the devil is in the details'
A turned table leg with lots of coves and beads and ogees - oh and some
flutes and dentil details - with tiny carved skulls and deveil heads
hidden about - ijn the details of course

'the light at the end of the tunnel'
Start with a lumpy, bumpy burl, preferably in a dark wood. Drill a hole
through it then turn a thin walled light bulb shape, the wall thin
enough
to be translucent enough for light to shine through it. Add one of
those
little bright LEDs, with its little battery hidden in the threaded part
which
is turned separately and glued onto the bottom of the bulb. Place light
at the end of the tunnel

‘few and far between’
A three “elelements” trembleur - maybe a foot long and say 1/16th inch
in diameter between the 3/4” diameter elements?

'over the top'
A turned Yo-Yo hanging from its string above a turned top
(too obvious?). They could sit inside a turned, hollow cone with
oval holes cut in the sided front and back so you could see the
suspended Yo-Yo and top.

"Flat as a pancake"
A stack of turned pancakes with a straight edge resting on the top

"straight & narrow"
a straight 12” long thin piece tapering from 0.03” to 0.02”

straight as an arrow?
A short stubby turned arrow - eccentrically turned so that it is
obviously not straight

"better half"
Two turned hemispheres - one as close to hemispherical as possible and
the other NOT QUITE RIGHT, perhaps with a crack in it.

"last straw"
This one will require one of those old glass straw holders - the ones
where you lift the lid which has a rod atteched to a disk at the
bottom. As you lift the lid it pulls the straws - or in this case The
Last Straw up above the jar rim. The “straw” could just be a simple
straw sized dowel, a shallow hole drilled in each end - and gold leafed

The Drum of The Different Drummer
A traditional taller than it is round drum with turned rims and body and
maybe with string added for the tension ropes - but turned on multi-axis
so the body obviously curves. A pair of turned drum sticks sit on top -
both turned multi-axis to be obviously not straight.

"parting of the ways"
I’m thinking one of those pen blank “plug cutters” could be used to
drill into the end of a blank at an angle to create to small cylinders
that intersect at an acute angle. The part of the blank below the
intersection point would be turned to a fat cylinder. There’s be a bit
of carving and sanding to get things to blend together.

Anyone else have a cliche or two as fodder for this folderal?

Fodder! A turned cartoonish cannon with a blunderbust shape - very wide
mouth with little plastic toy soliders on tin piano wire looking like
they're
being shot out of a cannon. The outside of the cannon can be painted
semi-gloss black, the inside done in day-glo red and yellow, perhaps
with
some puffs of cotton for smoke.

And there must be a cliche a pair of turned knitting needles or crochet
hooks can be worked into.

Fun this turning thing.

charlie b

Charlie, I wonder if we both 'need to get out more', but 'life is short
and art is long' including accomplishing your new series . Hope I
haven't slowed the progress of your good idea. Thanks for not drumming
me out of the ng.

"Fun this turning thing" Two rear turn lights with the the right
turning light a blinking smiley face. With this suggestion, rcw's
'nausea is palpable'.
Crude hand labelled rcw with plastic vomitus glued on. I have to stop
this or they won't let me out again.


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter


http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings

charlieb wrote:

And there must be a cliche a pair of turned knitting needles or crochet
hooks can be worked into.

Fun this turning thing.

charlie b


Hooked on phonics? = pair of crochet hooks across child's alphabet blocks.

clock face with needle hands = "a stitch in time"

large (knitting) needle in a haystack?

(wooden) dressmakers pins and (wooden) needles holding a toy balloon =
"on pins & needles"

A friend of mine calls any unidentified wood "naughty pine" ... see what
traction yo can get with that.

Bill


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