My weekend

Re: My weekend

Jay K

Nice; you definitely 'have the skills to pay the bills'!

Cheers!

~jay

Re: My weekend

Barry Irby

Those look great. What wood are they? Interior or exterior? Why the cone on the bottom?

Re: My weekend

dick hines

And all this time I though you were a bowl turner.

Re: My weekend

Clifton C

Barry, The wood is poplar. These are replacements for an interior stairway.

The cone you see is a round "dovetail" that slides into the end of the stair tread, then a half round molding is applied along the end to hide the dovetails.

cc

Re: My weekend

Clifton C

Dick, This was a one time thing, the first one was fun, the second one I wondered what I had been thinking, the third one I knew I hadn't charged enough, the fourth one I can't repeat what I was thinking...and on it went...

cc

Re: My weekend

Barry Irby

I thought they were poplar. I also guessed at the dovetail. They look great. I was concerned you were going to use them out doors. Poplar is not very rot resistant.

Re: My weekend

Brad Vietje

They look very well done. Haven't see that dovetail device, but then again, I haven't done much architectural turning, either!

So there are 3 of these per step (thus explaining the 3 different lengths) ?

I have heard from a number of sources that if you want to pay the bills with your lathe, the most certain way is spindle/architectural work -- unless you become famous. I guess after about 10,000 pieces, you get it down to a highly efficient process, and better at estimating the job -- or go broke.

Safe spinning,

Brad Vietje

Newbury, VT