Skew ChiDAMN!!
12th April 2014, 07:26 PM
The last few weeks I've been staying on-site for a job... and I was beginning to suffer for turning withdrawals when the boss asked if I could "roughly turn" a finial for a pedestal he'd knocked together.
Of course I said yes, even though the closest thing to a lathe at hand was a corded hammer drill. :rolleyes:
So, then he introduced me to the blank he wanted the piece turned down from... a 450mm sandstone brick cube!
Obviously the hammer drill wasn't going to cut the mustard, so I quickly improvised a pseudo-lathe from building materials left around the site. Of course, the first task - besides lifting the blank into place and applying hernia bandages - was to trim it into a more 'turnable' shape.
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Once I was satisfied I'd trimmed away the worst of the waste, it was time to fit the toolrest and get stuck into it with the trusty ol' 2400W 10" roughing gouge.
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An hour or two later, a li'l bit of a sanding with 1200W 4" grit and it's ready for reverse mounting!
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To facilitate reverse mounting I made what I called - at first - a 4-jaw chuck, but on flipping the piece over I quickly discovered it was actually a jam chuck. Two fingers, a shirt tail and a power cord can testify to that! :C
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Of course I said yes, even though the closest thing to a lathe at hand was a corded hammer drill. :rolleyes:
So, then he introduced me to the blank he wanted the piece turned down from... a 450mm sandstone brick cube!
Obviously the hammer drill wasn't going to cut the mustard, so I quickly improvised a pseudo-lathe from building materials left around the site. Of course, the first task - besides lifting the blank into place and applying hernia bandages - was to trim it into a more 'turnable' shape.
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Once I was satisfied I'd trimmed away the worst of the waste, it was time to fit the toolrest and get stuck into it with the trusty ol' 2400W 10" roughing gouge.
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An hour or two later, a li'l bit of a sanding with 1200W 4" grit and it's ready for reverse mounting!
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To facilitate reverse mounting I made what I called - at first - a 4-jaw chuck, but on flipping the piece over I quickly discovered it was actually a jam chuck. Two fingers, a shirt tail and a power cord can testify to that! :C
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