Horn of Plenty

love it!
how many cuts/segments are involved?
how are the re-joined lines covered up on the 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.

Pascal