Very nice, Beautiful.. Is that a 2 piece HF ?.. I have been reading about them. I am very interested in making them, not any where near the art work that you can do, but a little further down the line. There is not to much info out there about 2 piece HF`s. I have attempted to crudely make a small one, shown in another post. Now that i have seen yours i will strive to make one a little better then the 1st one i did. Thanks for showing.. Carl
Yes, its 2 piece. The top has to be 1/8" thick or less to pierce, the cutting tip is 1/32" in diameter and about 5/32 long. I have found no tools that will undercut that far, at that angle and that thin. I have turned one piece HFs for piercing up to about 6-7" and open vase and bowl forms larger.
In this piece, the seam is at the knife edge which kind of fools the eye and the seam isn't readily visible. This was cut from one piece of Box Elder and split with a chainsaw, it was too big for my bandsaw (12"). Each half was rough turned, bagged, dried and then finished turned, glued on the lathe for alignmen. Then a small amount of turning was done to true up the edge and shape the center opening, then sanded. Then reversed chucked (pressure chuck between centers), the bottom finished, except for the nub, which was removed after removing from the lathe. Sanded on the lathe as much as possible, Mylands Celluose sanding sealer applied and finished sanded. After woodburning the feathers, adding color toning with acrylics (airbrush paint, it's thin and translucent) and piercing, it was finished with Deft Spray Lacquer.
Making it from the same block matches the color and grain patterns, except for the chainsaw kerf and truing the edges!!!!
