CameronPotter
18th April 2006, 10:04 PM
No, I don't mean dressing up in tight red dominatrix suits - I don't see that as an affliction.;) I speak of being bullied by the wood...
Let me tell you a tale of woe...
Here I was, an unsuspecting fool in possession of a new spur drive and wanting to give it a go. I bolt down a REALLY nice dinner and pop out to the shed thinking, well I'll just give it a little go - but I won't do too much as I want to rest my shoulder (which has been playing up for some reason).
Anyway, I pick up a nice looking piece of sassy thinking that I will just turn it round... Then tomorrow I can do a bit more - well, the wood had other plans. I was trapped by its evil guile. :(
So I think, right, well, I will turn this wood nice and round to maximise the internal size and make a largish box... Not to be apparently.
Then I thought OK... It obviously wants a waist - so I started going for a "coke bottle" style shape - nope. The wood wasn't happy that way either. Damn!
"I really need to go inside," I think to myself. But I take another look at the wood and it immediately puts a stop to that idea...
So, I finally figure out that it wants to be a vase and at this stage I realised just how badly I suffered from the affliction.
Anyway, at this stage I thought, "Bugger that! I am here to make a bloody box and a bloody box is what I am going to make!" So, I get back to the lathe and start turning. The box still takes the shape of a vase, but I part off a section for the lid - but I had a devil of a time getting it to stay in the chuck for hollowing (a Jacob's chuck). Anyway, after a lot of effort, I finally get the lid sorted and hollow out the box as best as I could - which basically ended up being a vase anyway...
Hmmm.
Anyway, I then fitted the lid and started to turn a fancy finial on it - well it jumped off the lathe (somehow the lid stayed on the box though) and the finial which was fairly petite busted off - apparently it wasn't to be either... So I went with what the wood wanted - a very stubby finial.
The final result a box (or so I like to think), but I get the distinct impression that it is reall a lidded vase... :(
I feel so beaten on...
:rolleyes:
Let me tell you a tale of woe...
Here I was, an unsuspecting fool in possession of a new spur drive and wanting to give it a go. I bolt down a REALLY nice dinner and pop out to the shed thinking, well I'll just give it a little go - but I won't do too much as I want to rest my shoulder (which has been playing up for some reason).
Anyway, I pick up a nice looking piece of sassy thinking that I will just turn it round... Then tomorrow I can do a bit more - well, the wood had other plans. I was trapped by its evil guile. :(
So I think, right, well, I will turn this wood nice and round to maximise the internal size and make a largish box... Not to be apparently.
Then I thought OK... It obviously wants a waist - so I started going for a "coke bottle" style shape - nope. The wood wasn't happy that way either. Damn!
"I really need to go inside," I think to myself. But I take another look at the wood and it immediately puts a stop to that idea...
So, I finally figure out that it wants to be a vase and at this stage I realised just how badly I suffered from the affliction.
Anyway, at this stage I thought, "Bugger that! I am here to make a bloody box and a bloody box is what I am going to make!" So, I get back to the lathe and start turning. The box still takes the shape of a vase, but I part off a section for the lid - but I had a devil of a time getting it to stay in the chuck for hollowing (a Jacob's chuck). Anyway, after a lot of effort, I finally get the lid sorted and hollow out the box as best as I could - which basically ended up being a vase anyway...
Hmmm.
Anyway, I then fitted the lid and started to turn a fancy finial on it - well it jumped off the lathe (somehow the lid stayed on the box though) and the finial which was fairly petite busted off - apparently it wasn't to be either... So I went with what the wood wanted - a very stubby finial.
The final result a box (or so I like to think), but I get the distinct impression that it is reall a lidded vase... :(
I feel so beaten on...
:rolleyes: