I've been busy lately

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mikeee12345

Nice work John!

You have been busy! :-)

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john lucas

More of the Executive Baby rattles with captured rings inside. The angel was a screw up. I was trying to answer a woodturners question on the phone and forgot where I was when turning the angels. I turned most of the head before hollowing and finishing the skirt. So now it was chattering. Usually I would just make light cuts to get rid of it but I decided what the heck, I'll just push on the bevel harder and create more chatter. You can't sand that but the cuts were clean enough that I just painted it. I found some gold glitter spray and hit it lightly with that.

Busy like a beaver...

Don Orr

... chewing up the wood. Great work as always!

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Jake Niedling

Hey John - nice work as always. What is the texture/color finish on the block ornament?

Jake

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John C Lucas

Copper rubnbuff

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John K Jordan

Wow! The cube especially caught my eye. Is that an original design?

I'm still turning colored acrylic. I'll bring some to the club meeting.

JKJ

I really like the cube John, and wonder how.....

JamieDonaldson

....you chucked it for turning all sides?

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Jake Niedling

It looks like you have textured it with something like an engraving tool with a rounded tip as well.

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john lucas

Exactly. This was just a horsing around piece from a square piece of scrap. I just stuck it in a chuck and turned a sort of shallow bowl in each side to see what would happen. It started getting cool when I cut into the sides of each bowl. This piece of wood wasn't exactly square and I didn't make the bowls exactly the same size so the holes are all different. Since I chucked it straight into a 4 jaw chuck there were teeth marks near all the corners. So I disguised them with the Dremel engraver and a rounded over bit. Now that I know what happens I may make a smaller one (this one is huge) and try to make each bowl exactly the same shape so the interior holes will match.

See the reply to Jake above

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Barry Irby

I like the cube too. I have a round nose router bit about an inch and a half in diameter and I use it to hollow little bird houses. It would do a good job of this, If I could find it. Its hiding at the moment.

My other thought/question is what would happen if you drill through the center form one of more directions with a smaller bit?

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john lucas

Barry I think someone wrote an article possibly for Woodturning Design on a square ornament that was drilled from 4 sides and maybe a little turning but I can't remember it well enough to think up the details. I saw some of the when I visited Robert Vaughn in Virginia. He had made a dozen or so but that was 3 or 4 years ago.