Ive been wanting to make some smaller diameter wooden boxes for a while now and Ive watched every video on the subject known to mankind (sorry gals, but there arent many female wood turners in the world and I havent seen any of them make a box...ok Lynn Yamaguchi makes boxes...). So since its a not so cold day today I decided to go down to the work shop and make a prototype out of some red oak.
The preliminaries went well:
First I cut two pieces from a long 3"x3" red oak spindle stock:
The larger piece is the bottom and the smaller piece is for the top. Next I put the larger piece on the lathe and turned it to a cylinder between centers:
This worked well. I drilled 3 inches deep doing this:
Yeah, baby, drill !!!!!!!! This part went well until I began to cut the edge for the top to rest on-you can clearly see that at the rim. It was at this point that I realized that this blank wasnt quite straight and the whole interior hollowing and the rim were off center. Now the top will have to be cut but its going to be difficult to get these two pieces to line up and work properly.I went through the same steps with the top and began hollowing out the underside of the top:
I cut this recess out until it fit over the top of the bottom half. Then I put the two together on the lathe and turned them as a single piece in order to even up the diameters:
And I managed to do this part. And I began the parting off of the top and the bottom from the waste wood portions-those are the grooves in the picture.Then I took the parts apart and realized that I had turned down the top and the bottom far more than I should have:
You can see how very thin the wood is. This would soon break under daily use.So I decided to part off the two parts and then put the two sections together one last time to shape the top. By now the two portions were off center from one another and the whole thing went straight down the tubes. Here it is:
Well, my coffee has gotten cold and Im covered with sawdust, and my right shoulder is killing me. I think all the wood turning I have done has given me a very painful shoulder--woodturners shoulder! Now theres one for the textbooks. Ill have to tell my internist that...I bet shell get a kick out of that.
Well, I think we can stick a fork in this one and call it done. Thank heavens.
More later,
VW
Monday, February 22, 2016
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