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Thank You to Dennis in Southern Oregon

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Thank You to Dennis in Southern Oregon

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Thank You to Dennis in Southern Oregon

Doug Wolf

Just a quick thanks to Dennis for his graph on laying out a cylinder for turning spheres. I glued up about 40 blanks from 3/4" wood and skipped gluing the middle until I hollowed most of them out. I used Dennis's graph to rough turn them round between centers leaving a tenon on each end. Then mounted in a chuck I hollowed them and some of them received BB's or 3/8" ball bearings before getting glued together. After probably 15 or 20 I really didn't need the graph anymore. Here are some pictures. I found making the spheres actually easier than making eggs which I did last year.








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John K Jordan

Wow, impressive in quality and quantity.

I made a few using that method but with a calculator. It made a far more accurate sphere than I could do by eye. Yours look fantastic, far better than mine! I like your idea of hollowing before glue-up.

JKJ


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Dennis in Southern Oregon

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Dennis in Southern Oregon

You are very welcome Doug. You did a great job. Have you tried any spheroids yet?.

Dennis

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Doug Wolf

Not yet Dennis, but they are on my list.

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bowlman

Well done ... extremely well done. My hat is off to you ...

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bowlman

JKJ, nice job! Keep it up ...