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Heather Marusiak

Captive Goblet

A twist on classic turning and carving forms. Cherry, 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 9 1/2".
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Heather Marusiak
Tim Tucker said:
O.K...this caused a brain cramp....any chance you can refer me to an article or better - a video of HOW you did this? Fascinating!
Thanks
T
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Haha, sorry for the brain cramp! Yes, this is all from a single piece, and no, there’s no trickery with glue. The secret is that I turned the goblet and left a little meat to carve on the stem, so to speak. To start the chain, I carved four channels into the stem so that the cross-section would look like an “X”. From there, I removed more material to define the three links, the central link rotated 90 degrees from the top and bottom links. Once the outside chain contour was defined, it was just a matter of carefully removing the interior of the links and setting them loose, then sanding. Carving a chain is sort of a feather in the cap for a whittler in the same way turning a captive ring is for a woodturner. When I dreamed this up, I was thinking about how (sometimes) there is tension between art and craft, especially in an activity like woodturning, and so sometimes form ends up subverting function.

If I can get my phone to cooperate (I’m new to forum, just figuring things out), I’ll post some of my process pics for you.
 
Heather Marusiak
Tim Tucker said:
That would be wonderful so see progress pics.
Thanks!
T
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Unless I'm seeing things incorrectly, I can only embed hyperlinks to photos, not upload files directly from my device, so I'll have to find a work-around before I can post my own process pics. :(

So instead I have found a helpful YouTube video. The gentleman starts with square stock but I started with round (because... lathe...), but the principle is the same. He uses a knife, but I used a micro carver... but again the principles are the same. Hope this helps!
View: https://youtu.be/AyGr6wrhDvw
 

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