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My son gave me a small 3D printer for Christmas. Great fun playing with it. I tried a few modelling programs, but FreeCad seemed a good choice at the moment.
Made a simple filler for the lathe.
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A lily pad box I made for wife’s sister at Christmas. Stabilized maple Burl
This is very impressive. I presume that you turned the balls with stems, to attach them to the box but how did you hold the little dish at the top while you turned it? I presume that the stem of the ball passes through it, did you hold the dish in a jam chuck as you finished it?
Your fine turning is completely out of my league.
Martin
 
This is very impressive. I presume that you turned the balls with stems, to attach them to the box but how did you hold the little dish at the top while you turned it? I presume that the stem of the ball passes through it, did you hold the dish in a jam chuck as you finished it?
Your fine turning is completely out of my league.
Martin
Don’t ever think you can’t turn something. Now embellishing something that’s a different story. That’s where I have trouble. But turning is methodical. Approach it step by step.
the box above has a waste block glued both ends then when held between centres I turn the box and waste blocks round and put tenons on each block to hold then I recheck one end to hold and part the lid off the box.
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sorry little blurry but you get the idea.then when parted I can hold each piece separately in chuck and turn. I do inside first an$ I sometimes leav some decorative groves inside box, with one groove being a way I can expand a chuck into it to hold it to turn the outside top and bottom.
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this is the side of a lid, you can see groove I can expand chuck into.
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lastly legs and finial. The balls I drill and dowel. The finial sometimes I leave some wood to glue into a drilled hole.
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I’ll also add some groves in the stub I leave on bottom of finial for the glue to grab hold of better.
 
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Don’t ever think you can’t turn something. Now embellishing something that’s a different story. That’s where I have trouble. But turning is methodical. Approach it step by step.
the box above has a waste block glued both ends then when held between centres I turn the box and waste blocks round and put tenons on each block to hold then I recheck one end to hold and part the lid off the box.
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sorry little blurry but you get the idea.then when parted I can hold each piece separately in chuck and turn. I do inside first an$ I sometimes leav some decorative groves inside box, with one groove being a way I can expand a chuck into it to hold it to turn the outside top and bottom.
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this is the side of a lid, you can see groove I can expand chuck into.View attachment 125337

lastly legs and finial. The balls I drill and dowel. The finial sometimes I leave some wood to glue into a drilled hole. View attachment 125339
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I’ll also add some groves in the stub I leave on bottom of finial for the glue to grab hold of better.
You make it sound so simple 😁😁😁 your skills are 100% something to aspire to, I look forward to the day my skills can produce something so exquisite 😁😁😁
 
I made this. It was in an Intructable email, and my best beloved looked at it and said "You could make that this afternoon." I assumed I was going to prove her wrong and just make misery and sawdust, but lo and behold I made it and it works. Though when you see it this close up it's clear that I'm not great at lathe stuff, or finishing stuff. But I did finally use the O'Donnell jaws I bought a very long time ago, and the Axminster press brake I've had for a decade and used (now) five times, so I'm actually quite pleased.

It is an Epicyclic Bar Angular Transmission or Hobson’s Joint or, if you prefer, a fiddle toy. The two barrel bits (made from an offcut of an old guitar body blank) rotate at 90° to each other. The rods are made from a welding rod that I chopped with bolt cutters, rounded the ends on a sanding drum, and bent in the press brake. Took about 2 hours total, including trying to remember how to work my lathe, and the fixing of several mistakes. The Instructable, which includes 3D printing and laser cutting approaches, is here - Twisty Toy

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I made this. It was in an Intructable email, and my best beloved looked at it and said "You could make that this afternoon." I assumed I was going to prove her wrong and just make misery and sawdust, but lo and behold I made it and it works. Though when you see it this close up it's clear that I'm not great at lathe stuff, or finishing stuff. But I did finally use the O'Donnell jaws I bought a very long time ago, and the Axminster press brake I've had for a decade and used (now) five times, so I'm actually quite pleased.

It is an Epicyclic Bar Angular Transmission or Hobson’s Joint or, if you prefer, a fiddle toy. The two barrel bits (made from an offcut of an old guitar body blank) rotate at 90° to each other. The rods are made from a welding rod that I chopped with bolt cutters, rounded the ends on a sanding drum, and bent in the press brake. Took about 2 hours total, including trying to remember how to work my lathe, and the fixing of several mistakes. The Instructable, which includes 3D printing and laser cutting approaches, is here - Twisty Toy

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Witchcraft! There is no way that should work!
 
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I made this. It was in an Intructable email, and my best beloved looked at it and said "You could make that this afternoon." I assumed I was going to prove her wrong and just make misery and sawdust, but lo and behold I made it and it works. Though when you see it this close up it's clear that I'm not great at lathe stuff, or finishing stuff. But I did finally use the O'Donnell jaws I bought a very long time ago, and the Axminster press brake I've had for a decade and used (now) five times, so I'm actually quite pleased.

It is an Epicyclic Bar Angular Transmission or Hobson’s Joint or, if you prefer, a fiddle toy. The two barrel bits (made from an offcut of an old guitar body blank) rotate at 90° to each other. The rods are made from a welding rod that I chopped with bolt cutters, rounded the ends on a sanding drum, and bent in the press brake. Took about 2 hours total, including trying to remember how to work my lathe, and the fixing of several mistakes. The Instructable, which includes 3D printing and laser cutting approaches, is here - Twisty Toy

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Verrry nifty!!!
 
I don't like making the same thing twice. The stairs themselves are pretty straightforward, it's making the non-Euclidian geometry to house them that takes a bit of thought (and some very small bits of masking tape).
 

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