scooter
8th November 2007, 09:49 PM
Gday
Those who got to the BBQ may have seen a goblet with a, er, rather heavy base. :D That is, I turned the bowl of a goblet a few months ago, but was having trouble with the bearings in the headstock of my lathe so put it aside & it went on the gunnado list.
My brother is turning 30 in a couple of weeks, so I thought I'd finish it for a pressie for him. Had a couple of cracks in the upper half of the bowl to the rim that got the CA treatment.
Got stuck into it last night, finished it off & made a spiffy presentation box ( :D ) out of old PVC pipe with merbau base & cap, to get it to Orbost in one piece.
Sanded to 320, then 0000 steel wool, EEE, then shellawax glow (thanks Iain :2tsup: ).
Pretty happy with the shape, the best so far for me anyway. The rim of the bowl ended up a bit thinner than I'd have liked. Some tool marks on the underside of the base.
BTW, the merbau for the base & cap of the "box" was fun to turn, coarse grain but really fast cutting. It came from those white painted chunks at the BBQ.
About 180mm high & 2 1/2 dia.
Thanks for looking :)
Cheers................Sean
Those who got to the BBQ may have seen a goblet with a, er, rather heavy base. :D That is, I turned the bowl of a goblet a few months ago, but was having trouble with the bearings in the headstock of my lathe so put it aside & it went on the gunnado list.
My brother is turning 30 in a couple of weeks, so I thought I'd finish it for a pressie for him. Had a couple of cracks in the upper half of the bowl to the rim that got the CA treatment.
Got stuck into it last night, finished it off & made a spiffy presentation box ( :D ) out of old PVC pipe with merbau base & cap, to get it to Orbost in one piece.
Sanded to 320, then 0000 steel wool, EEE, then shellawax glow (thanks Iain :2tsup: ).
Pretty happy with the shape, the best so far for me anyway. The rim of the bowl ended up a bit thinner than I'd have liked. Some tool marks on the underside of the base.
BTW, the merbau for the base & cap of the "box" was fun to turn, coarse grain but really fast cutting. It came from those white painted chunks at the BBQ.
About 180mm high & 2 1/2 dia.
Thanks for looking :)
Cheers................Sean