PDA

View Full Version : 6th month anniversary! (and a finial)



ElizaLeahy
26th July 2009, 10:20 AM
This week is the 6th month anniversay of when I bought my lathe!!!

I should make something to mark the occasion. Hmmm, but what?

Oh, I made a finial!

I tried to make things sharp - but then I'd sand it and lose the sharpness. It's tiny, made from a jarrah pen blank. It's 9cm (3.5") and the pointy bit is 2mm to the first 1.5cm, then 3mm, then swells out.

I tried to get the round bits round. I didn't manage to get everything perfectly spaced. The point went a little scewiff once it was cut off and I sanded it. Doesn't matter in hair sticks, matters in finials! hmmm

I used the roughing gouge, the skew and the parting tool. It's not that I'm not taking your advice about the detail gouge Ken, I just don't have one small enough.

Ed Reiss
26th July 2009, 11:38 AM
It's tiny, made from a jarrah pen blank. It's 9cm (3.5") and the pointy bit is 2mm to the first 1.5cm, then 3mm, then swells out.

.

...just the right size for a mouse's jousting lance :U:D:D:D

ElizaLeahy
26th July 2009, 11:45 AM
I think I was influenced by the fact that they are having a medieval joust at Fort Linton today!

:)

Sawdust Maker
26th July 2009, 12:32 PM
6 months ay
hope there are many more

RETIRED
26th July 2009, 12:53 PM
Getting better.

What grit and sort of paper are you using?

There is a knack to sanding "real turning stuff".

You start at the bottom of a cove and work up to the detail so you don't dub it over.