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  1. 24th July 2007, 06:54 PM #1
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    Default can you turn a knight?

    i was going to turn a chess piece as a paper weight, and my brother challenged me to turn a knight! i can't resist a challenge and it was going well till it snapped in the center. but i'm sure it can be done with square stock between centers.

    has any one done it?

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  3. 24th July 2007, 07:02 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manuka Jock View Post
    Matt , turn a wee knights helmet . It doesn't have to be a horse
    where is the fun in that?

    it was using mertle by the way.

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    p.s. i'm sure the was a post i was replying to now it's gone.
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    Matt , turn a wee knights helmet . It doesn't have to be a horse
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    Quote Originally Posted by Twinnie View Post
    where is the fun in that?

    it was using mertle by the way.

    Matt

    p.s. i'm sure the was a post i was replying to now it's gone.
    Sorry Matt ,
    I Botched that up big time , forgot to post the pic .....
    and missed the Paper Weight bit .

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  6. 24th July 2007, 10:12 PM #5
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    you could do some sort of off set turning.
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    ok i have been messing about with the 3d software and i have made this little thing with all turned shapes.

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    I remember seeing someone mass-producing chess-sets and they were nearly 100% turned.

    For the knights he turned a large ring, maybe 6" across, with a partial profile matching the profile of the horses head and then cut this ring into segments on the bandsaw, mounting the segments in pin-jaws to turn the bases.

    Finally, he simply held the sides of the heads on the roller-end of a belt-sander to grind them back to shape on each side. From one ring he was making something like 1½ or 2 dozen pieces!
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    Skew's hit the nail on the head.

    Details in a book I have, which I will try to find.

    Here only the head was turned in a ring, and segments cut on BS. Base was turned separately , with a pin, to fit in hole drilled in bottom of head.
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    Sounds similar to an article in Fine Woodworking magazine, July 1987, 65:70-73. Extracted in Lathes and Turning Techniques, The Best of Fine Woodworking, Taunton Press, ISBN 1-56158-021-X, pp. 90-92. Called "Hoop turning." No horse heads, but they show some entire horses and cows. They used a tree cross section for the turning, and chopped the pieces apart with a knife along radii. Quite complex shapes.

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    Like they say... it can be done... I was asked to turn a chess set, and decided I didn't need all the stress. I'd rather turn something big enough for my eyes to see...
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