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hughie
1st September 2010, 08:14 PM
I am in two minds over this one.

Ring Master Tool you use without a lathe or with a lathe. (http://www.ringmastertool.com/PAGES/RINGMAST.HTM)

Rookie
1st September 2010, 09:27 PM
Nup

wheelinround
1st September 2010, 09:39 PM
Why ??

You make tools to suit don't you.........well ?

joe greiner
1st September 2010, 09:48 PM
I've seen a few made that way, and they seemed profoundly uninspiring. I think you can do better.

Cheers,
Joe

Rookie
1st September 2010, 09:50 PM
Well ...... I guess it's a bit too clinical for me. Everything would turn out "exactly" as you wanted it. But as you say, we do buy, or make, tools to suit. It struck me as I was doing a WIP on the hall mirror I recently made, that the trammel arm I knocked up, and router, probably made the ends "exactly" as I wanted them too, where Derek for instance would have just bow sawn it and planed it till it was right.

Woodturnerjosh
1st September 2010, 11:35 PM
It's just a more controlled version of the bowl-from-a-board technique which can be used for some truly interesting effects such as these :: Michael Mode :: (http://www.michaelmode.com/index.html) . I also think it's a clever way of getting the largest, deepest bowl from the least amount of timber!

Skew ChiDAMN!!
2nd September 2010, 12:59 AM
:whs:

I'd use it for making up laminated blanks to turn on the lathe *if* someone gave it to me.

Don't see any sense in buying one myself... not when a faceplate and a thin parting gouge will work just as well.

John Lucas
2nd September 2010, 03:11 AM
I've been doing the bowl from a board technique lately. You don't need a ringmaster. It would be nice if it cost $100 but not at the price they are asking. I've been doing them with both the parting tool method and the bandsaw method. They are fun. Not as time consuming as segmented turning but much more so than turning a bowl.

underfoot
2nd September 2010, 05:33 AM
Nup
But it makes an "amateur look like a pro"
and a "pro look like an artist" :cool:...that's gotta be worth it

John Lucas
2nd September 2010, 08:16 AM
I was at a craft fair last year and a guy had bowls that were obviously done on the ringmaster and if they were turned at all they were done with a scraper. Lot's of tearout, poor sanding and lousy forms. He was selling these segmented bowls for $60. They weren't moving very fast as near as I could tell.

oldiephred
2nd September 2010, 09:16 AM
I had one of those on loan from a friend and found it to be SOMEWHAT less useful than the ads indicate. A recurve vase type item or bowl with a recurve cannot be made unless several pieces of stock are used. The individual rings are quite thin and the assembly,gluing and sanding are very time consuming. They only use the supplied cutters which are about 3mm thick X 6mm wide +/-
Also very expensive for what they do.

All opinion of course:no:

hughie
2nd September 2010, 05:20 PM
:U some interesting responses


heres a much simpler version, and at a greatly reduced price.

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~kjeeves/leady/ringcutter/ringcutter.html (http://members.ozemail.com.au/%7Ekjeeves/leady/ringcutter/ringcutter.html)

powderpost
2nd September 2010, 09:40 PM
I have one and only used it three times. Like any other specialist tool, they do have limitations. If your skills or timber supply is limited and you need uniform production products, it is brilliant. It allows a functional bowl to be made from a 200mm disc up to 19mm thick. A "mix and match" effect can be produced by using a number of different coloured and mixing the rings. A laminated effect can be produced by gluing several strips together to make the disc.
For the average recreational wood turner, that acquires a nice piece of solid timber to turn a bowl, the tool is next to useless. That is why I have only used it three times. By the way, it was given to me.. :)
Jim