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Jonzjob
29th September 2012, 02:38 AM
I wanted to make a different Christmas pressy for our young neighbour and I thought that she might like a cherry bangle. So I put me thinking cap on and thought :C I was at down at the time!

I thought that it would be stronger if it was done in ply so that there wasn't any short grain. So I sliced 3 bits off a piece of cherry I had been given, glued and clamped them in my vise. It's the strongest clamp I have, and left it over night.

Next day I mounted it on my glue chuck with hot glue, turned the outside and parted it off so as to make the basic bangle.

Next I put my button jaws on my Axminster Clubman K10 chuck and mounted it so I could turn one half of the inside, turned it over and finished the inside. So I now had a plane bangle.

I marked it into 12 parts and carefully drew a Celtic knot on it. I carefully cut and pierced the pattern and sanded in the holes with thin strips of abrasive.. Celulose sanding sealer and a couple of coats of melamine lacquer and hey presto

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Bangle2.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Mathildesbangle2.jpg

The piercing was done with fine drills and burs in my Dremel and flex drive and wasn't as daunting as I thought it would be. The drills/burrs were got from Axminster Power Tools a while back and were resharpened jobbies from Sillycone Valley, USA.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Crochet3.jpg

The smallest is about point something of not very much! 0.2 or 3mm I think!!! How the hell do you sharpen that!

dr4g0nfly
29th September 2012, 06:34 AM
You definitely thought long and hard about that, and then made a damn fine job of it. I'm guessing you have a very thrilled and please young neighbour then.

Jonzjob
29th September 2012, 06:57 AM
Thank you 4G.

I have to admit that she was quite chuffed.. It looked good and wasn't too difficult to do. The 3 layers of cherry just give it another dimention.