Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
new ornaments
john lucas
Here are a few more that I made for the club tree. Still playing with my router idea. I'll try to shoot the latest one this afternoon and get a photo online. May not get much more done before Christmas. Simply have too much other stuff that has to be done. 
Fantastic!
Re: new ornaments
David Walser
John -- Do you hollow these ornaments? If so, do you hollow them before or after the top and bottom halves are glued together? It looks really cool. I'm just wondering about the mechanics.
Re: new ornaments
john lucas
These were hollowed after gluing together. Well that's not completely true. In order to get the parts to fit together after routing I had to partially hollow out the center. When I got them glued together I hollowed the rest of the way.
The other ornament
john lucas
This one was a bear to do. routed both halves. Then glued squares into the V groove but could only glue every 3rd one. I had to put them back on the lathe and turn down the top of the square until it was flush with the top of the V. Then I could glue another 4 or 5. Repeated that with both halves. After I filled in all the V's with the squares and turned them flush I basically had 2 flat surfaces to glue to. It left a slight glue line that I didn't like so I cut a V cut but I don't think I like that either.
This was a fun experiment but I don't think it's worth the hassle of doing. Especially if you were to try and sell this thing. I might do one more out of good wood. This one was just a test so I just used a 2x4 but since it was looking fairly good I decided to go ahead and finish it. 
Re: new ornaments
John K Jordan
These are excellent. Yours make our "ordinary" ornaments look pretty plain! I'm going to pretend you used a fancy computer program on an expensive CNC machine so I won't feel so bad. :-)
I actually like the look of the groove in the one made from pine with the squares. It would look exquisite on a tree.
JKJ
