Randir
10th October 2011, 10:08 PM
I am in the process of building a rose engine based loosely on this design:
http://www.ornamentalturners.org/assets/content/RoseEngine.pdf
http://www.woodturner.org/products/aw/howto/rose/MDFConstruction_v6%5B1%5D.pdf
http://www.woodturner.org/products/aw/howto/rose/mdfdrawings.pdf
The design given only has one rosette at a time and is on the outside of the headstock. Mine will have the rosettes between two pillars of the headstock, and as such they may be difficult to change.
Two things on this:
I plan to make the rosettes removable without sliding them off - ie, in two halves, with two panels bolting the two halves together. Has anybody done this? any thoughts on issues im likely to encounter?
Secondly, are there any recommendations on rosette shapes I should look at? I wrote a brief program to generate a bunch of them, but this is without having experience on what shapes to use. I'm getting lots of cool looking things but having trouble visualising them on wood
http://www.ornamentalturners.org/assets/content/RoseEngine.pdf
http://www.woodturner.org/products/aw/howto/rose/MDFConstruction_v6%5B1%5D.pdf
http://www.woodturner.org/products/aw/howto/rose/mdfdrawings.pdf
The design given only has one rosette at a time and is on the outside of the headstock. Mine will have the rosettes between two pillars of the headstock, and as such they may be difficult to change.
Two things on this:
I plan to make the rosettes removable without sliding them off - ie, in two halves, with two panels bolting the two halves together. Has anybody done this? any thoughts on issues im likely to encounter?
Secondly, are there any recommendations on rosette shapes I should look at? I wrote a brief program to generate a bunch of them, but this is without having experience on what shapes to use. I'm getting lots of cool looking things but having trouble visualising them on wood