Toy cows by turning

[morfa]

Came across this link earlier. Thought some folk on here might find it interesting. Basically it's a way of making toys from a turned block of wood.

http://www.horniman.ac.uk/collections/b ... bject/8847

 

[disco_monkey79]

A neat idea for creating multiples

 

[AndyT]

If you want to see how it's done and have five minutes to spare, it was this post on Robin Wood's excellent blog which led me to this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoRJT9L-kf8

which shows the whole process.

 

[gregmcateer]

Good post.
Mick O'Donnell did a really good article on it in Woodturning a while back, too.
Greg

 

[Jacob]

It's still being done - most commonly little farms sets of painted wood from E Europe. You can find them in toy and gift shops. You can tell they are turned by the wedge shape. Luckily cows etc are wedge shaped from above, so I suppose it's a technique suitable for anything with a fat B U M

 

[monkeybiter]

I saw this at the Harrogate show two or three years ago, it seemed like an interesting experiment/novelty. I never realised it actually had a practical application. I must talk to people more. :roll:

 

[andersonec]

It's still being done - most commonly little farms sets of painted wood from E Europe. You can find them in toy and gift shops. You can tell they are turned by the wedge shape. Luckily cows etc are wedge shaped from above, so I suppose it's a technique suitable for anything with a fat B U M

Jacob, so what you are saying is that I could use that technique to make one of my missus?

Andy

 

[Jacob]

It's still being done - most commonly little farms sets of painted wood from E Europe. You can find them in toy and gift shops. You can tell they are turned by the wedge shape. Luckily cows etc are wedge shaped from above, so I suppose it's a technique suitable for anything with a fat B U M

Jacob, so what you are saying is that I could use that technique to make one of my missus?

Andy

She'd have to be on all fours and you couldn't make one, it's multiples only!

Some more here:

They are known as "ring turned" animals

http://www.reifentiere.de/uploads/media ... h_2011.pdf

 

[gregmcateer]

I think they look pretty cool. I'll try to find the O'Donnell article and post the info here.
They look simple, but I seem to remember he advises some careful planning, as it can be a reet b'strd to get the shaping right on the re-chuck.
Greg