seriously offset turning

Re: seriously offset turning

Jimmy Edwards

John, is that an index wheel that comes with the Flutemaster? The yellow index wheel on the right of the pic. Do you own the Flutemaster? I bought one. It has a blue index wheel for 1x8 spindle and a red one for 1 1/4 spindle. Their sales material shows a yellow one, but I think they did away with yellow.

Re: seriously offset turning

john lucas

That's my stack of index wheels. IronfireLLC is the yellow one made of some sort of really tough flexible plastic. Had if for more than 10 years. Around $25 I think. A good wheel that's very inexpensive. Alisam is the blue aluminum one. Comes with the index pin alignment bar. About $100. I made my own flexible index bar that I much prefer to theirs. The bottom one is my homemade jig. About 50 cents. Works just as well for some things. I can draw as many index lines as I want. If you want 13 or 27 or 41 or some other index that doesn't come with the more expensive ones I can do it with that one. All of mine are for 1 1/4 spindles but they make them for 1"

I've been using them for the Galaxy mirrors.

Re: seriously offset turning

Don Orr

That's really "out there" John! Reminds me of some of Terry Scott's set ups. Looking forward to the finished product. You continue to amaze and astound us.

Re: seriously offset turning

John C Lucas

We'll this one is far out. As in car out of center. Had a hack of a time removing the blank. Used too much hot glue. Going with a little less this time. The blank is lighter so hopefully I won't going it off.

Re: seriously offset turning

Pete in Holland MI

Curious to know what kind of speed one turns such an oddly placed piece ?

Pete

Re: seriously offset turning

john lucas

As fast as you can. Since you are only cutting on about 1/8 of a revolution it's very easy to get the tool bouncing. With the balanced piece of wood on the other side I was able to turn it up to a moderate speed. My lathe doesn't have a direct read out but has a chart to give me the speeds. When I get back out to the shop I will estimate the speed I was turning and then check the numbers on the back and give you a reading. My thoughts are in the ball park of 500 to 800 rpm but I'll have to look.

Re: seriously offset turning

John C Lucas

About 800 rpm. That's an educated guess after installing the large faceplate and running it up to what I think was the speed I used. I could have to. It faster because it was really balanced but it's been a good while since I hot glued anything turned this far off center and I didn't want to take a chance on losing it.