Big Shed
9th March 2011, 01:20 PM
I recently made an El Grande with a custom finial and I was asked to show how I did that.
Others may have a different way of doing this but this how I do it.
The El Grande has a flat top finial and I decided to customise it by drilling/boring out a space for a finial matching the blank on the pen, bark from the Red Ironbark in this case.
To hold the finial I mounted the threaded part it screws on to in a suitably size collet, I used my metal lathe, but it could just as easily be done on the wood lathe.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2546.jpg
The finial was then screwed on and drilled and bored out to the desired size.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2544.jpg
Resulting in this
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2545.jpg
Part of the blank is soaked in thin CA.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2540.jpg
On the wood lathe this time, we turn a tenon on this piece of bark so we can hold it in a collet chuck.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2547.jpg
In the collet chuck ready for turning the finial
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2549.jpg
Turned to required diameter
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2552.jpg
Turn a "stub" to locate it in the finial
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2553.jpg
Final application of CA
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2554.jpg
part off with small parting tool (or fine saw, whatever works).....and here it is on the pen.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Swaps/2011%20WWF%20Australia%20Day%20Pen%20Swap/IMG_2574.jpg
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Swaps/2011%20WWF%20Australia%20Day%20Pen%20Swap/IMG_2577.jpg
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Swaps/2011%20WWF%20Australia%20Day%20Pen%20Swap/IMG_2567.jpg
Others may have a different way of doing this but this how I do it.
The El Grande has a flat top finial and I decided to customise it by drilling/boring out a space for a finial matching the blank on the pen, bark from the Red Ironbark in this case.
To hold the finial I mounted the threaded part it screws on to in a suitably size collet, I used my metal lathe, but it could just as easily be done on the wood lathe.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2546.jpg
The finial was then screwed on and drilled and bored out to the desired size.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2544.jpg
Resulting in this
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2545.jpg
Part of the blank is soaked in thin CA.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2540.jpg
On the wood lathe this time, we turn a tenon on this piece of bark so we can hold it in a collet chuck.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2547.jpg
In the collet chuck ready for turning the finial
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2549.jpg
Turned to required diameter
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2552.jpg
Turn a "stub" to locate it in the finial
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2553.jpg
Final application of CA
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Turning/Pen%20Turning%20-%20Finials/IMG_2554.jpg
part off with small parting tool (or fine saw, whatever works).....and here it is on the pen.
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Swaps/2011%20WWF%20Australia%20Day%20Pen%20Swap/IMG_2574.jpg
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Swaps/2011%20WWF%20Australia%20Day%20Pen%20Swap/IMG_2577.jpg
http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt145/peregrinefred/Pen%20Swaps/2011%20WWF%20Australia%20Day%20Pen%20Swap/IMG_2567.jpg