first go at Drozda finial box :)

[nev]

After seeing Andys and Paolos finial boxes last week I was inspired to have a go with a few offcuts of idigbo and sapele? and here it is! Following a Cindy Drozda DVD (very easy to follow , if a tad grating on the accent :roll: ) so cant take any credit for the design, just the finished product
I'm quite chuffed with the outcome especially for a first go. The foot and finial are a bit heavy but passable for a first try :wink: .
Done with just a bowl gouge, spindle gouge and thin parting tool. EDIT: I forgot the round scraper for inside the box. The undercut could be better if I had a specialist tool. Sanded to 600 and a quick blast of EEE Ultrashine to finish.
Thanks to Andy (Anderson) for the help

and for scale...

 

[CHJ]

That's a little beauty, both in execution and selection of wood stock, well done.

No comments to make about proportions, it's well made and finished and style is down to personal taste and someone else's is just as valid or otherwise as any I might make.

 

[woodyturner]

Now that I like a lot I was very surprised when you showed just how small it is and now I think it is blooming marvelous well done

 

[KimG]

Very nice Nev!

 

[Grahamshed]

Now that I like a lot I was very surprised when you showed just how small it is and now I think it is blooming marvelous well done

My thoughts exactly. lovely.

 

[bassethound]

what a beauty! love it... =D>

 

[kernowjoiner24]

Very nice, looks very neat. As a wood turning 'born-again virgin' (not even looked at a lathe since i was at school) would you turn the inside first or the outside ?

 

[CHJ]

Very nice, looks very neat. As a wood turning 'born-again virgin' (not even looked at a lathe since i was at school) would you turn the inside first or the outside ?

Ask a dozen turners and you'll probably get a dozen different approaches to something similar.
My take on it would be like any turned piece, maintain as much support and rigidity for as long as possible.
So having trued the blank and parted off the matching lid section, sort the bore out before removing the outer bulk, working back in stages to the base.

 

[Jensmith]

Lovely Nev and even more impressed having seen the scale. Well done

 

[nev]

Thank you for the nice comments gents and ladies

KJ - its a little convoluted :? The tenon of the lid is turned first then removed from chuck. the top half of the outside of the base is shaped and the recess for the lid turned. Then the lid is push fitted into recess, tailstock brought up and lid section blended with base, then the finial. then the lid is removed and the inside of pot turned and finished. then a jam chuck turned the same size as the lid tenon put in chuck and has base push fitted onto it, then the lower half of the base is turned and finished.
I've missed a few of the stages out but thats effectively it. simples :shock:

Edit: What Chas says is true. The sequence of the turning of the one part then the other and back the first and swap again etc is to provide the most support at all times.

When I do the next one I will try and do a WIP if i remember

 

[remulo]

very nice nev =D>

 

[Peggy]

Beautiful, and so small! Very inspiring.

Peggy

 

[nev]

Well I just tried the Mk2 version and .... Disaster!
what could've gone wrong did! First i turned the lid to the wrong size #-o , then made the recess in the inlay too big #-o , scrapped that one and cut another. Then the glue didn't go off. redone. Then I managed to go through the lid when turning the finial :evil: and then finally messed up the foot, made it too small and it split when i pushed it on the tenon #-o . I was going to take a pic but the camera batteries were flat! ](*,)
So all in all not a very productive day, although I have learnt and re-learnt the lesson of reading/ following the instructions before you start.
If this had happened on the first one i may well have given it up as a bad idea, but NO! I can do it.

The moral of the tale - If at first you dont succeed, blame the tools, go off in a huff, shout at the dog and once you've calmed down have another go. Its in there somewhere, it just needs a bit more practice!
Here endeth the lesson.
:wink:

 

[CHJ]

Had one of those incidents myself yesterday.

Mantra to self, "Don't waste time with Punky Wood"

Result, a little bowl not even fit for bench junk in case someone picks it up to look at it because it looks pretty from a distance.

 

[Jensmith]

I seem to be having nothing a similar problem at the moment where nothing is going right but I'll bear your lesson in mind Nev

 

[jumps]

Now that I like a lot I was very surprised when you showed just how small it is and now I think it is blooming marvelous well done

ditto

 

[condeesteso]

Love it. The materials, the form and proportions... very well done: skill and style =D>