Definately at the limits of the lathe, even now I can't get the tool rest under the piece which is a PITA but if I reduce it down to get the rest under it I will have to drastically reduce the length too or the whole thing will look out of proportion. I'll get it there just gonna be a slow process. Need to get some more shaping done then a good amount of hardener on it to get my final cuts done.
More wood than lathe................I love it.
Go big or go home
there's still every chance it could fly apart, there's a lot of cracks running the length of it that go very deep, once shaped I'll throw som resin in to help hold it together.
Wow those are stunning, bet it takes some serious patience to put all those little pieces together.
Those are gorgeous
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The video is there for me, not sure why you can't play it, it's only 15seconds long
The color is achieved by coloured resin. I put the block of maple in a vacuum chamber with the color or colors of resin poured in. I weight the wood down so under resin. Then pull a vacuum which sucks all air outta wood. When bubbles slow down turn off vacuum and release lid. Resin replaces air in wood. I then bake at 200f to activate resin. Then I turn it. The softer parts take more resin while the harder parts less or none . This is a box I did for the fireman’s ball as a donation. It was done with two colors to try and create flames,
Wow very effective!
