davidrei
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Jr. Gent, screwbean mesquite, amboyna burl center stripe & circle, maple veneer. The straight veneer is store bought. To get the maple around the circle, I turned a solid maple dowel to 23/64, and an amboyna dowel to 19/64. I then made a simple jig to hold the blank in the drill press, drilled a 23/64 hole and glued in the maple dowel. after that, I drilled a 19/64 hole and glued in the amboyna dowel. This was my first attempt, so it didn't come out as well as I'd hoped, the hole is kinda centered on one side and off center a little on the other, and the amboyna dowel is slightly off center.
Figuring (correctly) that my problem was not starting out with a perfectly square blank, I tried again with desert ironwood, amboyna and maple. This one came out very well, but unfortunately, the lower barrel suffered from spontaneous rapid disassembly while turning. Not sure what to to with the survivor, thinking about pairing it with some elk antler I have, but I'd want to add some wood element to the antler to better connect it to the upper barrel. Maybe just a simple amboyna dowel?
As always criticisms & suggestions are most welcome.
Figuring (correctly) that my problem was not starting out with a perfectly square blank, I tried again with desert ironwood, amboyna and maple. This one came out very well, but unfortunately, the lower barrel suffered from spontaneous rapid disassembly while turning. Not sure what to to with the survivor, thinking about pairing it with some elk antler I have, but I'd want to add some wood element to the antler to better connect it to the upper barrel. Maybe just a simple amboyna dowel?
As always criticisms & suggestions are most welcome.