OK, so this is a little esoteric...
GaryG in MD
...but it's fun to learn something new -- by experimentation.
I took a chance today and tried to make a "side-to side hexasphericon" from a cylinder (not from a block). The bottom line -- yes, it works! It's a little tough to visualize (for me, anyway), but I thought it would probably work. It does. That means I have plenty of roughed cylinder blanks with nice end-grain patterns that I can use -- if I want to -- except I very rarely repeat anything. But it's a data point, and I'm passing it along...
If your response is "huh??", you can see what I'm talking about here:
http://www.mathias.org/steve/sphericons/series.htm
I'm a little bit indifferent with making more bowls (although I have a lot more bowl roughouts to complete) and love crazy, different things like this. I'm doing it with a pre-rotation (having inset a pivot pin) so it will be grainmatched -- something I consider mandatory to the final appearance.
As I write this, it's still between centers, but I hope to get it sanded and split and rotated and reglued tomorrow (later today for most of you -- I live my live on swing shift).
If you're looking for something new, this is a fun project.
...GG
