Thread: cubism 2022 revisited hughie

Is that a ball joint on the end of the knuckle on your inertial sander?

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Is that a ball joint on the end of the knuckle on your inertial sander?

Thought about it but ended up with this arrangement as it keeps the cost down. Shown here is a 40mm dia head as larger heads need bigger openings For bowls its fine I have 75mm head somewhere in my random dispersal storage system
This arrangement works well it get me under the lip just fine and can you can reduce the head on the grinder down to 30mm dia, found under 30mm dia that the heat build up delaminates everything. I havent really sorted that one out yet other than to use with it a Ranque Hilsch vortex at the same time.

Now its moving to the slow part, where you spend hours for not much to show for it. So now I have layed out the design and what I normally do now is I use a small vee gouge usually on the Dremel and go over the pencil lines as with all the handling from now on the lines get blurred if not disappear altogether. Also I have run around the inside with a thinnish coat of poly varnish as I have a mind to darken the inside towards the end. If I dont use a clear coat to seal it, the chances are that the dark finish will soak through, but never evenly I also run around and make a few pencil marks of the important features just to remind.

The procedure is ongoing cut, file, shape n sand. This I am using Camphor Laurel which is soft, easy to carve etc, but the more I carve the weaker it gets, usually it would be some sort of hardwood, a great deal stronger but brittle . I sent one piece overseas and foolishly marked it 'fragile' it didnt arrive well. I think the Post Office took it on as a challenge

There is still along way to go once the basic shape is done then to carving the each individual spoke, sanding and it will be buffed at the end, which is a challenge in its self

As much as the main area has it fiddlyness the ends is where the detail becomes very important and often this is the weakest point in the carving. nothing really fancy in the way of tools, standard files and rasps.

Shaping is coming to an end, next the detailing

This detailing is perhaps one of the most fiddly I have attempted. I may have out smarted myself by making it so thin. But its getting there, some days it seem to be akin to watching grass grow

Is it my imagination or has the link disappeared? I had trouble finding it, had to rope in Jim.

Done,

The Vortex in Camphor Laurel stands around 20cm x 12cm oiled with my own version of Danish Oil

Nice work Hughie!

That's a real work of art Hughie. Really nice.

Darn got caught up in the middle of something and didnt mean to send it as it was only half done. A big edit coming up