woodturning

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Pyro, some more nice work, those finishes look really good! Axminster should do you well. Swine flu - bummer, hope you get over that soon!

 

Thanks Crafty Weasel, nice work too, I like that gate on your FB page. What finish do you use on yew, and does it stop it from darkening?

 

Pyro - craddle chuck, and bit more... this is an olive ash bowl, sort of, -from a few years back... I use the cradle chuck particularly on larger things and big natural edge bowls. (for scale, it's about 2' in diameter)

[Tree Man Tom]

Nice work!!!!! I like that!

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Cheers, it's a marmite piece though, and I've yet to make a stand for it - any ideas? Currently it's kicking about in the shed, know anyone who'd want it?

[slack ma girdle]

Outstanding piece. If you are not sure what to do with it, why not donate it as one of the raffle prizes. It would make a fantastic prize.

 

With the cradle chuck, are the the two side accuratley cut, or do you not bother that much given the one sided nature of the bowl ?

 

Also how do you ensure the two side of the cradle are level ?

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slack ma girdle - thanks, raffle prize good idea...

 

With the cradle chuck, are the two side accurately cut, or do you not bother that much given the one sided nature of the bowl ?

 

Also how do you ensure the two side of the cradle are level ?

 

If you mean concentricity and parallelism of top to bottom of the bowl, then you can get very close depending how the bowl is mounted. This one was mounted on a big spigot, so the base turning is concentric and parallel, thus the spherical surface is continuous and not miss-matched.

 

The back plate (just a big face plate) is perpendicular and concentric to the lathe spindle. The retaining ring (doughnut) is just to clamp the bowl to the back plate and its position is not important. Although you can use it to adjust the concentricity of what you're turning if its not located on a spigot, such as with natural edge...

 

My explanations are not great, so here's a few more pics that may help. 1st one is the spigot the ash bowl was mounted on, other bowl just clamped to the back plate.

[pyro]

 

 

here we have a sycamore candle holder, for grandmas birthday and christmas,

 

and a spalted beech bowl also for grandmas birthday!

 

 

Flames: ive seen them before but by a different name - a dougnut chuck - looks a good idea may have a go with one at some point!

 

Ben

[Blaisey]

What is the Plywood for?

 

Great pics

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basically just to hold larger work, allowing you to turn the base. Look back up the thread for a more detailed confusing explanation :-)

[Ian Leach]

Great work there

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-so I found the names of the sand paper I use... it's very good and quite good value.

 

Sand paper: Norgrip 120 - 400grits, and A275 Rotolo foam backed 600 - 800grits.

Brillo pad type stuff: Mirlon total 1500 UF & 2500 MF.

 

Has any one else used these?