Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Amazing segmented turnings
Julian Roslanowski
If you enjoy segmented wood turning, take a look at this YouTube video.
Video is title: "Artistry in wood - Meldrum Masterpieces." These designs are incredible.
Would really like to know how some of these are made especially the turning at time 5:49. If you know how these are made can you share some information on the process? I would really like to give this a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN78OwhAZQM
Re: Amazing segmented turnings
Dave Paine
The fellow was a wonderful craftsman. Nice touch for the fellow to post a video of the grandfathers work.
A screen capture of the bowl at 5:49.
An intricate design. I think the blank is a series of pieces of wood each the height of the bowl, glued around the centre of the bowl instead of a series of rings.
I made a segmented bowl using pieces glued around a square centre just to see how it would look. Mine is much simpler but may give you the idea.
The blank after gluing the pieces together.
Initial bandsaw to get this round to minimize imbalance on the lathe.
Starting to take shape.
Final shape. The outside pieces of mahogany became oval shape at the end.
I hope this helps to think about Bruce Meldrums complex design.
Re: Amazing segmented turnings
Julian Roslanowski
Thanks for the photos Dave. The center part of the piece appears to be a pentagon and then he glued pieces to the 5 sides and recut a new pentagon but slightly off set. This process is repeated several times. The trick is to cut a nearly perfect pentagon every time. I'll have to experiment with this a few times.
