Pot Pourri dish?

[John. B]

Pot Pourri dish?
Sunday afternoon job whilst other members went to Ally Pally.
SWMBO now wants a lid to go on it. Figured Sycamore. :-k









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[mikec]

Now that is an interesting shape :shock:

Looks great, how did you finish the sides :?:


Regards,

Mike C

 

[Jenx]

Great, John ! ... very 'UFO' looking !
I like that a lot !

Would it be giving away too many secrets if you were to tell... " How " ?

I think a lid would be good.. for the pot-pourri aroma to come out the holes.. Something different, and interesting too !
Excellent !
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[Struan]

That's really nice, i love the grain effect, would definately work well with a lid i think

Struan

 

[John. B]

Fairly straight forward.
I mount the blank on a screw chuck, true it up.
glue some scrap on the face to form a spigot, reverse so I can put it in my gripper jaws of my Ax. precision chuck.
Draw 3 parallel lines for the base, the middle, and the slope where the holes are not fogetting the lip.
I've made an indexing plate (cos my lathe don't have one).
Mark off 12 equidistant points. Drill a hole 10mm up from the top centre line at each marked point, the depth is not really important so long as it goes as far as the lip.
Rough turn the base, it will be finished when it's reverse chucked.
Turn the top slope, and lip, then hollow out. finish the inside, and top. Then reverse chuck with the jaws inside the lip. (I wind a few rounds of electrical insulating tape around the jaws so that it doesn't mark the lip. (I use that tape because it stretches) Then turn off the base spigot and finish.
I think that's it, it seems easier to do than write it.
Ha! Iv'e just reread it and forgot to say how I did the scallops.
I used a biscuit because it was the right shaped arc between the points below the holes.
bandsawed the waste then sanded the arc on my bobbin sander.

John. B

 

[Blister]

John

That's pleasantly different :lol:

Looks a bit " Close encounters "

Do Do Do DOO Dooooo :wink:

 

[PowerTool]

Very nice - and what a surprisingly simple idea this was :-

then sanded the arc on my bobbin sander

I'd have been scratching my head for hours trying to work out how you did that bit,glad you explained it

Andrew

 

[CHJ]

Good sharp detail John, did you seal the drilled holes at all before turning to aid sharp edges?

 

[Paul.J]

That is a different and unusual piece John
Looks to be nicely finished,and i think it would look better with a lid on.

 

[John. B]

Chas,
No, just a sharp gouge, downhill.

 

[johnny.t.]

=D> =D> Thats brilliant John, it really is. =D> =D>

JT

 

[Woodmagnet]

=D> =D> Thats brilliant John, it really is. =D> =D>

JT

I agree with Johnny, well done marra. 8)

 

[greggy]

superb, just superb, well done johnny.

 

[DaveL]

Now I do like that, a spinney thing that is not round. 8)