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    And you know that would work.
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    Ah! Winged box! I think you've got it upside down. And a quicky. Nice.
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    Andy, an education as always. Thanks for sharing the process with us all. It is a lot of work to get all the words and pics together, so most appreciated.

    The wings flare a little too much for me, though I suspect you were testing the boundaries at little???

    And was it that Congo Mahogany? If so, you must tell us your finishing secrets.

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    Yeah, 'twas the Congo Mahogany. Comes up real nice, doesn't it?

    It's soft and a bit prone to tearout, but with good clean cuts it only took me a few minutes to sand through to 400 grit then simply finished with EEE & Shellawax.

    Mind you, I probably spent as long applying the EEE/Shellawax as I did sanding, if not longer. (I don't have much in the way of fingerprints left on a couple of fingers. )

    The wings are a bit flary; they would've looked better if I made 'em a tad thinner. But as I was trying to keep everything "spherical" and wanted them to be the legs of the box, I was pretty much limited to that shape.

    The next one may have a cm or two of the centre "ball" showing between them instead of almost meeting the way they do. The lip seperating them didn't quite work the way I'd hoped.

    Ah well.
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    Looks good to me
    It would take me at lot longer than 45 min to turn that
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    Been starved for turning time lately, but had a lunch-time knock-off today so snuck into the shed.

    Thought I'd have a play with a bit of Mango that Cliff kindly sent down a while back. After having a play with it, I've decided that Mango is definitely not on my "favourite woods" list.

    I had no idea what I was going to do with it, simply throwing it on the lathe for a play. After quickly roughing it to round and removing splits, etc. I was left with a fairly odd shape, which had a "dome" on the end. Hmmm... OK, if I part off the dome for use as the lid, then the piece still in the chuck will make a gobletty sort of base. So that's what happened.

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    After hollowing the innards and applying a finish, I reverse chucked it onto a jam-chuck and hollowed the foot as well. It's a fairly large foot and the box itself is quite thin, so I want to remove as much excess weight as possible to make it feel nice & light in the hand.

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    In the last photo, the tailstock is only there to hold it in place while I took the happy-snap. The jam chuck held it well enough until almost the end, when I got a bit over-exuberant applying the shellawax. You can see where I was still finishing - the unpolished bit where the stem meets the bow - when it decided to go wandering.

    Nothing that a Dremel and felt-pad didn't fix in short order.

    OK, so the box bottom came out alright, now to do something with the top. Usually I'd jam it into the box and turn them both at the same time, but this time I thought I'd do a TTiT impression and go for something different... a potpourri box!

    Mango doesn't strike me as being the best choice for lattice-work, but if I keep the rings fairly large (not trying to compete with certain other people) it should work out fine.

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    Being pushed for time, I wanted this to be done fairly quickly, so rather than make up fancy jigs I decided on a basic, bare-bones job. Just a bit of 90x45 pine stud cut to length and a bevel down one side.

    I simply drilled through the centre of the "dome" blank and screwed it onto the bevel. It did take a few shots to get it centered accurately enough while placing the axis where I wanted it, but only maybe 10 minutes worth of time all up.

    After turning one set of rings, I simply loosened off the screw and turned the dome around 1/3 of the way, then retightened. And again for the final set of rings. Precision work it ain't but it got the job done.

    When finished, a finial will fill the screw hole nicely.

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    To hollow it out, I again took a shortcut and instead of using a jam-chuck type setup I simply threw an old spigot in the chuck, cupped it out a bit and the screwed the block onto it using the screw the "other way" through the blank. It meant I couldn't hollow out the whole dome as per usual, needing to work around the screw.

    But it's a simple enough matter to part off the central "pillar" once all is done and finished. Just like parting off on a pen mandrel, except at a more awkward angle.

    However (why is there always a "however"? ) this is where I came unstuck.

    Instead of hollowing to thickness with calipers then turning the rings, I roughly hollowed, marked out the rings, then hollowed a bit more, deepened the rings, hollowed, etc. trying to "creep up" to the mark.

    So, there I was, croucehd over the lathe, trying to see what the hell I was doing while working around that pillar, when... "WHAT'RE YOU MAKING?" One of 'er indoors friends had dropped in & seen the garage door open.

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    At that point, I downed tools for a damage assessment, took a final photo and called it quits. Right now I can still hear 'em giggling in the lounge about my being "in a snit."

    But I'm not. I got over it pretty quickly.

    As a matter of fact, as soon as I made my cuppa and realised she'd left her handbag on the bench right next to the sugar...
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    Well, the cup bit worked beautifully. Now you get to make a contrasting lid.

    I like your idea of the screwy thing. I'll have to study it more to understand it.

    You didn't really with the sugar, did you?
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    I like where you were heading with it. It's kinda how I work - Just have a crack at it and figure out the mounting of stuff along the way.

    I like the way you were going about the lattice work too - having the three different angles on top. Looks great!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozkaban View Post
    I like where you were heading with it. It's kinda how I work - Just have a crack at it and figure out the mounting of stuff along the way.
    Sometimes I'll plan a job out, but today I was just having fun. I learned a few new things, too.

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    I like your idea of the screwy thing. I'll have to study it more to understand it.
    The screwy thingy is very basic, but not very accurate. For pieces like Ken makes, it'd be totally useless.

    You didn't really with the sugar, did you?
    She does it deliberately, thinking it's funny. I've tried telling her that one day I'll lose a finger, but still...

    She can just count herself lucky that I couldn't be bothered finding the honey.
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    nice effort skew

    A dead mouse in the bag would've been better
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    Ouch.
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    Snuck another one this arvo, after coming home early and discovering no-one home... and that I'd forgotten my keys.

    'Tis nothing special, just further experimentation on the last form. (Which I still need to make a lid fir.)

    90mm dia x 100mm high, Jarrah. I'm undecided whether to turn a finial or a simple knob, but it'll probably be a pale wood rater than a drk one. Huon Pine, perhaps.
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    Strewth mate, you're putting in more turning of late than a baby has its nappy changed.
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    Being able to actually find the lathe helps.
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