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Thread: Goblet with rings
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3rd October 2006, 09:59 PM #1
Goblet with rings
While doing a demo I was asked if a goblet with two rings was possible, for a wedding anniversary. The task was duly completed and received with some joy. A bystander asked if more rings were possible. The challenge was accepted with glee. The result was a goblet 130mm high with twenty rings. Don't really know why you would want to do it, but the task was interesting, and people kept coming back to see what the latest tally was.
JimSometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important...
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lol. interesting peice....would have been kinda weird to turn with all them rings flying around. did you tape em up to one end, to stop em coming in contact with anything?
have a greenie btwS T I R L O
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3rd October 2006, 10:09 PM #3
They were held back with the left hand while turning with the right hand.
JimSometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important...
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3rd October 2006, 10:10 PM #4
That's bloomin amazing Jim!!
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3rd October 2006, 10:17 PM #5
Captivating!
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3rd October 2006, 10:24 PM #6
gotta say that is a very frugal and efficient use of wood, lolololol.
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4th October 2006, 12:27 AM #7
Jim - novel exercise - good to see you use a piece of solid wood for once What sort of tool do you use to part the rings off??? Do you use the one tool to cut both sides???
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4th October 2006, 01:29 AM #8
It's very impressive. Now i wonder who will take up the challenge and make a goblet with a 3' stem and 11ty million rings? Any takers? Or how about a ring with 11 goblets?
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4th October 2006, 01:33 AM #9
Oooer! A challenge, eh!?
I'm tempted to show y'all the next step in captive rings...
- Andy Mc
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4th October 2006, 01:39 AM #10
and so young too, only 46 he was. His ticker burst under the strain you know. did it? Yes it did. Poor lad. Yes i know. They found him mumbling 1 more ring, just one more ring. Luck his turning thing was only going slow else it would have bashed his head in. Yes, i bet it was, Dud. Yes. Kerflappity, flappity it went. Did it? Yes it did. Funny noise that. Yes it is. Sort of like a cane toad caught on a nail sticking out of a tyre. Yes, you could say that. I could, couldn't i? Yes, you could.
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5th October 2006, 02:28 PM #11
Jim, that's amazing! :eek: Test of skill, and of patience! Tool used for the rings?:confused:
Tas, did you hear Cliff? Go get back in bed. It'll wear off after a good night's sleep... maybe.Al
Some minds are like concrete thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
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5th October 2006, 05:01 PM #12
I thought I'd replied to this but... (unless 'twas del'd by the PTBs 'cos of copyright or something? :confused: ) Anyways, here's what I aspire to, one day when my skills improve another ten-fold. One day... one day... [sigh] But I wanna make one now!
These are David Springett's work, I heartily recommend each'n'every turner to at least borrow his books, if not actually add them to your workshop library....
Captive rings? Kiddies' play!
- Andy Mc
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5th October 2006, 05:23 PM #13
has anyone seen any pics of Grinling Gibbons work? Though i believe he was more of a carver, amongst other things. I saw a pic in the English Woodworker many years ago of a lace cravat he had carved out of pear wood and i have never seen anything so more realistic, it was really beautiful. Gibbons was talented almost beyond belief. Springett looks like another one.
Sometimes it feels good to belong to the human race when there are people of such ability around. Most of them seem to be humble folks as well. And i can see it popping up in folks of the forum - every now and again there appears to be a surge in someones creativity and skill that really goes beyond normal bounds. Sometimes they find it hard to believe themselves even though they can touch the evidence.
It's a bit like knapping a rock and finding opal. Go into someones garage or old shed and there it is.
Woodies are good like that.
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5th October 2006, 06:48 PM #14
I borrowed a his Wood Turning Wizardry from the library about five - six years ago and have been scrounging the second hand bookshops trying to find a copy.. went into my local (Bookshop not Pub) and find they've reprinted it.. bought it htere and then.
No excuses now people unless lack of money, enthusiasm or interest count
Now all I need is a Lathe and about 100 yars practice
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5th October 2006, 06:55 PM #15
Ho hum
One for the museum of "how the hell did he do that?"
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