Fredo
24th April 2011, 12:34 PM
Morning gents,
Here's something different, for me (wasn't sure if I should post this, but here goes anyway)
I made this for my wife in September 2010 after a demo organised by Richard Raffan at my local wood guild featuring French turner Benoit Averly. I was influenced by a slideshow of his and many other French turner/wood artists work (a real eye-opener, those guys do some wonderful things that are really off the scale).
I call it a trinket box. It's turned on three centres, firstly between centres as an end-grain lidded box and then with the lid removed to allow clearance for it to be turned on two centres as cross grain hollowings (I had to make a faceplate chuck to mount and hold it to be able to hollow the two pockets and also had to use weights to counterbalance during hollowing). The pockets are internal spheres with 65mm openings for access. It was a fairly long process (about 8 hours) to make as a first time attempt because I had to work out how to do it as I went.
Size is 500mm high X 150mm X 130mm. Front face was left as was (with chainsaw marks), other sides were sanded and some pyrography added, which was another first for me. Also some small routed flutes were added around the lid.
I think it's okay for a first try, my wife likes it, and that's what's important, right? (If you guys don't like it, I can always blame the French :roll:)
Fredo :U
Here's something different, for me (wasn't sure if I should post this, but here goes anyway)
I made this for my wife in September 2010 after a demo organised by Richard Raffan at my local wood guild featuring French turner Benoit Averly. I was influenced by a slideshow of his and many other French turner/wood artists work (a real eye-opener, those guys do some wonderful things that are really off the scale).
I call it a trinket box. It's turned on three centres, firstly between centres as an end-grain lidded box and then with the lid removed to allow clearance for it to be turned on two centres as cross grain hollowings (I had to make a faceplate chuck to mount and hold it to be able to hollow the two pockets and also had to use weights to counterbalance during hollowing). The pockets are internal spheres with 65mm openings for access. It was a fairly long process (about 8 hours) to make as a first time attempt because I had to work out how to do it as I went.
Size is 500mm high X 150mm X 130mm. Front face was left as was (with chainsaw marks), other sides were sanded and some pyrography added, which was another first for me. Also some small routed flutes were added around the lid.
I think it's okay for a first try, my wife likes it, and that's what's important, right? (If you guys don't like it, I can always blame the French :roll:)
Fredo :U