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Inside out Mirror

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Inside out Mirror

john lucas

Working on inside out platter techniques that I developed many years ago. Finally have time to get back to it so this is the first experiment. Then I'm also working on a demo on the square ornaments for our club next month. I shrunk them to 1 1/2" so they are more ornament size. I took more time to make the "bowl" in each side the same shape and depth. worked pretty well. Then I decided to go further by using a 1/2" end mill to make smaller bowls in the middle of what was left from the first turning. I broke out on of the spokes going to that size but it was fun.


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ebd

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ebd

Nifty. Mirror is sweet. I can't imagine doing the cubes.

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John K Jordan

Nice! I can't wait to see those, the smaller size seems tricky. Did you use the end mill on the wood lathe? Ball end mill?

Maybe do a big cube for the demo so it will be easier to watch!

JKJ

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rich croce

hey John, how'd you make that mirror?

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John C Lucas

Take a square of wood. Cut it into 4 equal squares. Rotate them 180 degrees and then glue them together with a paper joint. Turn a ring or cove or something else. Break it apart at the paper joint. Rotate each piece 180 degrees and glue together. Now turn what you want .

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rich croce

Thanks John. It maybe common knowledge to some , but its new to me. It opens up new avenues to explore. Much appreciated.

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John C Lucas

Its new to almost every one. Ive only seen inside out platters mentioned once in all the years ive been taking woodworking magazines.

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Doug Ladendorf

Thanks John. I don't think I had seen inside out platters before either, just spindle turnings. More ideas to play with as you say. :D

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Tom Gall

Nice mirror, John. Technically, I don't think you can call this an "inside-out" turning, but just a re-orientation (4 pieces) of the same surface. A few months back I made a wall hanging using this technique but used a different orientation of the pieces. I really liked the end result! :) It was a collaborative project (Echo Lake) ….. I did the turning, and three others did the airbrushing & painting and framing & mounting.

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John C Lucas

I call it inside out simply because i use the same technique as j do on inside out spindles except of course its platter oriented. Seems like they used to call i side out turning bh another name in England but i cant remember it right now. This could obviously be done with more than 4 pieces.

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John K Jordan

John, have you tried inside out with free ends? I saw this recently:


He wrapped tape around it to stabilize at one point.

JKJ

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John C Lucas

Yes. I do inside out flowers. Not near my computer so can't post a photo. One of the demos i was going to do for the AAW Symposium in Kansas was the inside out flower but i was t selected.

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David Walser

JKJ -- Thank you for linking to Martin's inside-out snowman ornament video. I had no idea he was making videos that long ago. One of the things that I like about YouTube is watching the progress of turners. Martin's quite a good turner today. Back then, his tool technique was pretty bad. He still got a good result (mostly by resorting to his 40grit gouge).

The same kind of progress can be seen by a lot of today's well known YouTube turners. Go back a few years in the archives and you're apt to see a turner with a lot to learn, yet they still produced some good looking pieces. Makes me wish I'd videoed my own turning journey. But, I'm glad I didn't ask the world to watch me learn!