turnerted
14th December 2014, 03:50 PM
G'day
Here's some pendants I made based on Brendan Stemp's video.
Initially I tried using polyester resin but I gave up on that as there was too weak adhesion between resin and wood. I then swapped to epoxy resin.
I changed the method a bit from Brendans . I found it easier to drill the offset on the lathe .I prepared my blank as an 80mm square cross section bit of timber and mounted it my chuck with a spacer about 4mm thick on two adjacent sides to make the offset, then bored my recess with a 21/8" forstner .I then took it out of the chuck and parted off the end on my table saw about a mm thicker than the depth of the recess .I then mounted the parted off end back in my chuck ,turned over the other way , but without the offset and hot melt glued on a tennon.
I glued in the inclusions with 5 minute epoxy then poured in the epoxy resin and left them in the preasure pot overnight.
Next day I turned off the corners then drilled the hole for the cord on the drill press ,then turned the face of the pendant to a slight dome , sanded to 600,coated with CA and finished sanding with micromesh and EEE . I then mounted the finished surface on a pendant chuck usind double sided tape as described in a video by Dan Douthant .
I parted off the tennon on the glue line and finished as above .I hope you find this of interest and thanks to Brendan and Dan for their videos.
Ted
Here's some pendants I made based on Brendan Stemp's video.
Initially I tried using polyester resin but I gave up on that as there was too weak adhesion between resin and wood. I then swapped to epoxy resin.
I changed the method a bit from Brendans . I found it easier to drill the offset on the lathe .I prepared my blank as an 80mm square cross section bit of timber and mounted it my chuck with a spacer about 4mm thick on two adjacent sides to make the offset, then bored my recess with a 21/8" forstner .I then took it out of the chuck and parted off the end on my table saw about a mm thicker than the depth of the recess .I then mounted the parted off end back in my chuck ,turned over the other way , but without the offset and hot melt glued on a tennon.
I glued in the inclusions with 5 minute epoxy then poured in the epoxy resin and left them in the preasure pot overnight.
Next day I turned off the corners then drilled the hole for the cord on the drill press ,then turned the face of the pendant to a slight dome , sanded to 600,coated with CA and finished sanding with micromesh and EEE . I then mounted the finished surface on a pendant chuck usind double sided tape as described in a video by Dan Douthant .
I parted off the tennon on the glue line and finished as above .I hope you find this of interest and thanks to Brendan and Dan for their videos.
Ted