Johnathan Silwones is starting a new AAW chapter, Southern Alleghenies Woodturners, in Johnstown, PA. (click here for details)
Congratulations to Jim Hills for "Journey II" being selected as Turning of the Week for May 6th, 2024
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My first photo here, some of you might have seen it already on WoW.
Turned hollow cone, then cut and reassembled to get the horn shape.
Gesso and texture outside, gold leaves inside.
Very nice and interesting project. Did you cut all the segments on the same angle and just rotate them ? How did you cut them? Or did you sand the angles?
Also nice picture.
Thanks e and Erwin. if I remember well, there are 25 segments, and the total length of the cone was around 25cm (10"). for each "ring" I make a cut at an angle (+5 or +8 degres), then another one at -5 or -8deg. then I rotate every other segment of 180 degres(it is clear ?) before gluing.
each cut is sanded on a disk sander (MDF on a faceplate on the lathe, 3M 75 spray glue to hold the sandpaper).
most of the job was determining graphically on a drawing the length of each segment (the cut angle being fixed), as the length varies with the curve radius.
this piece is the subject of a "how-to" article I wrote for a woodworking magazine (in French).
the inside is sanded to remove the angles with rotary flap wheels or anything that worked, and I just applied a red gilding base, (called "assiette rouge", I don't know the technical word in English), then my gold leaves.
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