Thread: Dungeon HF Captured Rig!!

Well, I got some more time in on it tonight, not enough to get near done but .......

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While refining my form, I got some NASTY tear out Try as I might, I could NOT get rid of all of it, upped the speed, the tools were sharp, and I did the best I could but....

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Then I picked up my Eli Avisera bowl finishing tool, boy did it work great!!

Now I know my skills are still lacking with the bowl gouge, but man, did this tool save my bacon!

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Next I wrapped it up good with that saran warp kind of stuff, flat twine, I think they call it, and kept at it.

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I got about 80% of it hollowed out, and this cut so much cleaner than that other one I tried, I'm sure happy with it, but I could not really judge where the outside was from the inside, so I stopped before I had a blow out.

I'll be buying a laser pointer and rigging it to my D-handle soon.

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Another shot, different lighting to show the inside, well to TRY to show the inside.....
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I'm not going to get it done today, or even tomorrow, hopefully on Sunday, so I stuffed it back up with wet shavings, and..........

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Bagged it once more, hope it holds up

Cheers!

Hi Stu fantastic work,

I think next week I am going to go down to metal-corp and start building one as well.

What you planning on finishing with, Stu?

I find that for leaving work on the lathe, I have better results with coating the outside with Danish Oil then pouring some inside and giving her a tumble. But I usually finish in DO anyway, so there's no "clashing products" problem there.

I've lost too many unfinished pieces from bagging and DO isn't that expensive here.

Well it looks like I got about 98% of the hollowing done today, ran out of time, I'll finish it tomorrow.

I'm not sure what I'll finish it with, I guess you have to finish the inside too eh

I really don't want to change the color, so maybe just some blond shellac or something?

I got my lase today

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Here is the set. I went for this unit, as it was a straight cylinder, the others in the price range were not, also the body is aluminum, not plastic. It also takes the standard AAA batteries, no the half length AAAA batteries the other seem to all take. I bought two sets of rechargeable batteries and the charges, all for about $50 US, but I had a points card at this electronics store, so I paid nothing for them, zip, zero, nada

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here you can see the laser dot, I was surprised it was not round....?

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Here is my jig, kind of thrown together, it works, but I see the faults in my design. The aluminum tube on top is too bouncy, too flexible, it makes the laser dot wiggle all over the place, and the whole wooden block thing, while it works, I could be better. Next time I go shopping at my DIY place, I'll buys some thick chunks of aluminum, and some steel tubes, and make a better set up, but it does work!!

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Here the laser is somewhat short, this means I'm still mostly on the HF, and the thickness is about 8mm or so (I set the gap between the edge of the laser dot and the cutter at about 5mm)

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Here the laser is mostly off the HF, the Saran Wrap stuff is there too, so that adds to the thickness.
As it turns out, I was able to do almost all of the hollowing with the two tools I have, but one between the straight boring rod and the 45 cutter would have been a lot easier, so I'l l have to make one!

Going to unwrap it tomorrow, and then let it dry for a week or two, I sure hope it does not crack on me.............. any advice on what to do? It was moist, but not dripping wet.

Cheers!

OK, I got this one parted off and in the DNA bath......

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The colors are amazing, but I think they will fade, who knows?

I sure hope it holds together!

Well, on to the next one!!

Stu, thats a real beauty. Thanks for the step by step too. I just ordered the Clark Hollowing system and the Clark steady rest but If I hadn't I'd be making one like yours. Great job on the tools and the vessel. I look foreward to seeing more from you.

Hey Bill, nice to see you here!

Hope you can show us some of your great work!

Cheers!

HEY stu try this if you can get the front off your lazer ? put a piece of thin card in there with a pin hole in it you can open up the hole to as large as you want . It makes for a cleaner spot .

Originally Posted by rodent

HEY stu try this if you can get the front off your lazer ? put a piece of thin card in there with a pin hole in it you can open up the hole to as large as you want . It makes for a cleaner spot .

thanks, I'll give it a go!

Just a follow up here.

I could not get the front of my laser off, it is one piece, so I took a thin piece of cardboard, and put some double sided tape on it, then cut it into a small circle, and stuck it on the front of my laser. Thus stuck, I trimmed it to size, then I used a sharp awl and put a small hole in it, I ended up making the hole a bit bigger, but still the laser dot is now round, and about 1/4 the size it was, great improvement.

Thanks for the suggestion rodent!!

Cheers!