Thread: Egg cups..

So do I, beautiful. The only Beech here is along the coast so I'll try Jacaranda. Phil.

Any fairly close grained wood should do it Phil. Just mark it and drill it carefully and you can't fail mate.. If one fails, it's only a tiny bit of wood init.

I look forward to the photos! Have fun and have a go. I use a Dremel and sanding drum to get the initial round on the legs and a strip of 240 grit to sand the inside of those legs. I also hold them in the chuck to sand them. Dead easy that way and you just turn them to get all round..

This is quite pleasing to the eye.

I don't think you should take the comments too heart.

Thank you Christos.

It is difficult though when you are such a delicate artist like wot I am . Seriously though, it wasn't the only occasion and not only to me either, so I decided it wasn't worth the effort really? Too much to do in the garden

A great design . I'll have to try that some time .
Ted

Originally Posted by Christos

This is quite pleasing to the eye.

I don't think you should take the comments too heart.

Agreed... they look good to me!!!!

Jim

Nice job

Tjank you for your comments. I would also like to thank all who have hit the like buttons. I haven't experienced that before and am not really sure what to say, but ta everyone!!

Get yer fingers out and make some for yourselves. If you need any info on how I did them then just yell. They may take a little longer but they aren't difficult to do, honest!!

Hi Jonzjob...
Me yelling for more info...

I would love to give it a go... so some instructions / trade secrets... would be greatly appreciated
Alen

Nice job I like them.

Ta yet again folks

We have visitors arriving next week and then off to Malta for a couple of weeks, so when all that's out the window I'll see about doing some more and do a WIP on it.. SWMBO is getting me working on mundane things like tidying the garden and watering things and the like so shed time is limited!!

Edit : - I have just remembered this thread I did a while back on candy twist candle sticks and it uses exactly the same principal. Just scale it down and it is the same.

Candy twist..

I hope it helps. If not then, as I said, yell and I'll do one for the egg cups.

I have just started to do another 4 of the similar egg cups and I intend to do a WIP on them.

One of the things that I use on my lathe is a pinch chuck. A part of a collection I was given by a good friend about 18 years back.

The original collection is about 130 years old and is made of box wood and bronze bezels and rings. I tend to guard rather than use them, but they are wonderful to use when I do. When I started to turn this set of 4 egg cups I found that my O'Donnel jaw set on my chuck (I mistakenly called them Jacobs jaws earlier, sorry!) was marking the finished base of the cups. So a tiny modification on one of the pinch chucks has cured that! This one is an original 130 year old jobbie





This is the full count I have now. The darker ones with the bronze bezel are the original and the others are ones I have made up from scraps to do coffee scoops, flour scoops, large curtain rings and other things. They are so very versatile and easy to both adapt/make and use.





They don't need to be as pretty as the lovely originals and this is the one I made up for the curtain rings. Tightened by a Jubilee clip




These 2 for the coffee scoop, left, and the flour scoop. The handle sticks out of the cut-out and it concentrates the mind with the handle whirling round at 3000rpm!! The scoop is help like this



And at speed



Totally a different subject for a mo, but I have just seen this I made. Anyone know what wood it is???

The egg cups look very, very cool. I am very tempted.

Thanks also or all the pics. I made a coffee scoop once in similar fashion. Very cool and you really want to stay out of the way of that handle whizzing around! It does look awesome all being one piece though, so it seems to be worth the risk.

The bowl looks like it, s been made out of ply!