1st insideout turning..

[Jonzjob]

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!!!

[Jonzjob]

Well, it wasn't the only itme for inside out for me.

I have to admit that I didn't really like the inside out jobbie up above, so I got mr brain cell into gear and thunk it out? I cut a bock of beech into an 8" high triangle, then cut it into 3 bits from the centre of the sides to the middle and turned the bits inside out. I used some wedges to hot glue the bits together and mounted them on my lathe.

The top was turned almost to a point and a waist turned in the middle.

The 3 bits were seperated again and turned the right way around and glued back together. I then, very carefully, turned the outside following the line of the inside and finished up with

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Inside%20out%20candlestick%202%204_zps0qpdxpps.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Inside%20out%20candlestick%202%204_zps0qpdxpps.jpg.html)

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Inside%20out%20candlestick%202%201_zps3jwnppui.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Inside%20out%20candlestick%202%201_zps3jwnppui.jpg.html)

The glass inset fits a treat and I like it much better. But I really must see about getting a different coloured candle. I fact, it would be dead cheap to buy some candles, turn a mould and make my own ?

[Christos]

I just caught up with this and I think the second one looks a lot better as it looks balanced.

[smiife]

I just caught up with this and I think the second one looks a lot better as it looks balanced.

Sorry ,,,,I have to disagree , I like timber used in the first
one , maybe with a white candle though !:;!

[Dalboy]

I like the first as the second just looks too chunkie for the glass and candle. i find involuted turning great fun and a challenge in getting the shape right

[Jonzjob]

I'm afraid that the photo doesn't do it credit. It looks better from a bit further away. I agree about the fun of it and the idea of how far can i go?

I think that the first shows too little of the galss ball o the end of the shaft and that it was hidden, hence the making of mk2..

As for the candle colour?? I will have to see if I can melt down some other colour jobbies, turn a mould and make say a red one?? I don't really like the blue, but that's what came with the original and I ain't seen another since!