Jonzjob
27th July 2016, 09:19 PM
I have had a glass candle holder with a spherical candle. It was originally mounted in a not very nice metal mount hence the reason for just being there..
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%201_zpsobpgwvkp.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%201_zpsobpgwvkp.jpg.html)
I haver thought and thought about the best way to mount it well and decided that insideout turning may well work. I have always been reluctant to try it because I have no accurate way of truing up the final mating faces. So I thought sod it and started after I had watched a video of how it's done again. I have no idea what the wood is other than I think it's an African hardwood. I aquired it when I was the volunteer electrician on the Bristol Britannia XM496 at Kemble airfield in Gloucestershire. It was holding the main aircraft batteries in place on its last flight from Africa to Kemble!!!
Anyway I bit the bullet and turned the inside, trued up the faces as well as I could, re-glued it the right way round and turned the outer. When it was finished and the glass inserted it looked top heavy, so I turned the base from the same wood and finished it with hardwax oil with a coat of intercrystaline wax over it. I like it, but it's a shame that I just could not get those faces trued correctly!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlesticks%202_zpsl1gx2tyh.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlesticks%202_zpsl1gx2tyh.jpg.html)
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%204_zpsrayxxirl.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%204_zpsrayxxirl.jpg.html)
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%205_zpssi7hegy4.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%205_zpssi7hegy4.jpg.html)
It doesn't show very well, but the light shining through the glass ball is quite remarkable. In this photo it has inverted the picture of the 2 sparrow hawks behind it
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%206_zpsmooj9xgt.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%206_zpsmooj9xgt.jpg.html)
I don't think that it will be the last time I do insideout turning me-thinks!!!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%201_zpsobpgwvkp.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%201_zpsobpgwvkp.jpg.html)
I haver thought and thought about the best way to mount it well and decided that insideout turning may well work. I have always been reluctant to try it because I have no accurate way of truing up the final mating faces. So I thought sod it and started after I had watched a video of how it's done again. I have no idea what the wood is other than I think it's an African hardwood. I aquired it when I was the volunteer electrician on the Bristol Britannia XM496 at Kemble airfield in Gloucestershire. It was holding the main aircraft batteries in place on its last flight from Africa to Kemble!!!
Anyway I bit the bullet and turned the inside, trued up the faces as well as I could, re-glued it the right way round and turned the outer. When it was finished and the glass inserted it looked top heavy, so I turned the base from the same wood and finished it with hardwax oil with a coat of intercrystaline wax over it. I like it, but it's a shame that I just could not get those faces trued correctly!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlesticks%202_zpsl1gx2tyh.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlesticks%202_zpsl1gx2tyh.jpg.html)
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%204_zpsrayxxirl.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%204_zpsrayxxirl.jpg.html)
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%205_zpssi7hegy4.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%205_zpssi7hegy4.jpg.html)
It doesn't show very well, but the light shining through the glass ball is quite remarkable. In this photo it has inverted the picture of the 2 sparrow hawks behind it
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Insideout%20candlestick%206_zpsmooj9xgt.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Insideout%20candlestick%206_zpsmooj9xgt.jpg.html)
I don't think that it will be the last time I do insideout turning me-thinks!!!