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[Sandyn]

My son gave me a small 3D printer for Christmas. Great fun playing with it. I tried a few modelling programs, but FreeCad seemed a good choice at the moment.
Made a simple filler for the lathe.

 

[Lefley]

Maple Burl stabilized with blue! African blackwood Top and bottom.

 

[Stigmorgan]

Maple Burl stabilized with blue! African blackwood Top and bottom.View attachment 125317

Your talent blows me away, these boxes of yours look like they belong in an 3xpensive gallery

 

[Lefley]

Your talent blows me away, these boxes of yours look like they belong in an 3xpensive gallery

Thanks. A lily pad box I made for wife’s sister at Christmas. Stabilized maple Burl.

 

[Cooper]

A lily pad box I made for wife’s sister at Christmas. Stabilized maple Burl

This is very impressive. I presume that you turned the balls with stems, to attach them to the box but how did you hold the little dish at the top while you turned it? I presume that the stem of the ball passes through it, did you hold the dish in a jam chuck as you finished it?
Your fine turning is completely out of my league.
Martin

 

[Rustic Mike]

Driftwood and rubbish bits of wood sculpture

 

[Garno]

Driftwood and rubbish bits of wood sculpture

There is something very appealing about that.

 

[Lefley]

This is very impressive. I presume that you turned the balls with stems, to attach them to the box but how did you hold the little dish at the top while you turned it? I presume that the stem of the ball passes through it, did you hold the dish in a jam chuck as you finished it?
Your fine turning is completely out of my league.
Martin

Don’t ever think you can’t turn something. Now embellishing something that’s a different story. That’s where I have trouble. But turning is methodical. Approach it step by step.
the box above has a waste block glued both ends then when held between centres I turn the box and waste blocks round and put tenons on each block to hold then I recheck one end to hold and part the lid off the box.

sorry little blurry but you get the idea.then when parted I can hold each piece separately in chuck and turn. I do inside first an$ I sometimes leav some decorative groves inside box, with one groove being a way I can expand a chuck into it to hold it to turn the outside top and bottom.

this is the side of a lid, you can see groove I can expand chuck into.

lastly legs and finial. The balls I drill and dowel. The finial sometimes I leave some wood to glue into a drilled hole.

I’ll also add some groves in the stub I leave on bottom of finial for the glue to grab hold of better.

 

[Stigmorgan]

Don’t ever think you can’t turn something. Now embellishing something that’s a different story. That’s where I have trouble. But turning is methodical. Approach it step by step.
the box above has a waste block glued both ends then when held between centres I turn the box and waste blocks round and put tenons on each block to hold then I recheck one end to hold and part the lid off the box.
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sorry little blurry but you get the idea.then when parted I can hold each piece separately in chuck and turn. I do inside first an$ I sometimes leav some decorative groves inside box, with one groove being a way I can expand a chuck into it to hold it to turn the outside top and bottom.
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this is the side of a lid, you can see groove I can expand chuck into.View attachment 125337

lastly legs and finial. The balls I drill and dowel. The finial sometimes I leave some wood to glue into a drilled hole. View attachment 125339
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I’ll also add some groves in the stub I leave on bottom of finial for the glue to grab hold of better.

You make it sound so simple your skills are 100% something to aspire to, I look forward to the day my skills can produce something so exquisite

 

[Garno]

You make it sound so simple your skills are 100% something to aspire to, I look forward to the day my skills can produce something so exquisite

Fully agree with that Stig fully agree.

 

[SimonV]

Small side table (H: 28 cm). Made laminating scrap slatted bed base with an Italian tile in the top. Mostly made it up as I went along, using both hand and power tools. Working with the design constraints imposed by the material was fun and satisfying!
Simon

 

[Fitzroy]

Sometimes it’s the little job that unexpectedly give the most pleasure. Fixed a saw handle. Trimmed flat, scrap block glued on, and sawn/carved to shape. Wipe of BLO and it’s back in service.

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

I made this. It was in an Intructable email, and my best beloved looked at it and said "You could make that this afternoon." I assumed I was going to prove her wrong and just make misery and sawdust, but lo and behold I made it and it works. Though when you see it this close up it's clear that I'm not great at lathe stuff, or finishing stuff. But I did finally use the O'Donnell jaws I bought a very long time ago, and the Axminster press brake I've had for a decade and used (now) five times, so I'm actually quite pleased.

It is an Epicyclic Bar Angular Transmission or Hobson’s Joint or, if you prefer, a fiddle toy. The two barrel bits (made from an offcut of an old guitar body blank) rotate at 90° to each other. The rods are made from a welding rod that I chopped with bolt cutters, rounded the ends on a sanding drum, and bent in the press brake. Took about 2 hours total, including trying to remember how to work my lathe, and the fixing of several mistakes. The Instructable, which includes 3D printing and laser cutting approaches, is here - Twisty Toy

 

[Fitzroy]

I made this. It was in an Intructable email, and my best beloved looked at it and said "You could make that this afternoon." I assumed I was going to prove her wrong and just make misery and sawdust, but lo and behold I made it and it works. Though when you see it this close up it's clear that I'm not great at lathe stuff, or finishing stuff. But I did finally use the O'Donnell jaws I bought a very long time ago, and the Axminster press brake I've had for a decade and used (now) five times, so I'm actually quite pleased.

It is an Epicyclic Bar Angular Transmission or Hobson’s Joint or, if you prefer, a fiddle toy. The two barrel bits (made from an offcut of an old guitar body blank) rotate at 90° to each other. The rods are made from a welding rod that I chopped with bolt cutters, rounded the ends on a sanding drum, and bent in the press brake. Took about 2 hours total, including trying to remember how to work my lathe, and the fixing of several mistakes. The Instructable, which includes 3D printing and laser cutting approaches, is here - Twisty Toy

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Witchcraft! There is no way that should work!

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

That's what I like about it!

I have a book of odd mechanisms. I might try making some of those.

 

[Nick S]

Few Christmas bits practicing my turning 6 months since buying lathe getting better

 

[Adam W.]

That's what I like about it!

I have a book of odd mechanisms. I might try making some of those.

OK, I challenge you to make some Penrose stairs.

 

[Henniep]

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I made this. It was in an Intructable email, and my best beloved looked at it and said "You could make that this afternoon." I assumed I was going to prove her wrong and just make misery and sawdust, but lo and behold I made it and it works. Though when you see it this close up it's clear that I'm not great at lathe stuff, or finishing stuff. But I did finally use the O'Donnell jaws I bought a very long time ago, and the Axminster press brake I've had for a decade and used (now) five times, so I'm actually quite pleased.

It is an Epicyclic Bar Angular Transmission or Hobson’s Joint or, if you prefer, a fiddle toy. The two barrel bits (made from an offcut of an old guitar body blank) rotate at 90° to each other. The rods are made from a welding rod that I chopped with bolt cutters, rounded the ends on a sanding drum, and bent in the press brake. Took about 2 hours total, including trying to remember how to work my lathe, and the fixing of several mistakes. The Instructable, which includes 3D printing and laser cutting approaches, is here - Twisty Toy

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Verrry nifty!!!

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

I don't like making the same thing twice. The stairs themselves are pretty straightforward, it's making the non-Euclidian geometry to house them that takes a bit of thought (and some very small bits of masking tape).

 

[voyager]

some amazing craftmanship in this thread, a lot of things to aspire to.