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I've been playing with my CNC machine all summer long, but now that it is getting colder out in the shop, decided to play in the "turning studio" aka spare bedroom. I was inspired to do this one as a gift for a man who is in charge of working on our Aircraft Carrier stationed in Yokosuka Japan...

First, please allow me to give you a little background. If you want to get right to the meat of this post, please skip ahead a few paragraphs to the one that starts with "The upshot is". As some of you may remember, I lived in Iwate, Japan from 2007-2009. Iwate was hit really hard by the...