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A little Greek Key to get started

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Here're some sample OT stuff from way back in the day. My OT lathe rotated rather than rocked. the rotation was because I had some tooling components to cobble it together that way. The rotation was on a machinist's rotary table. I've since dismantled it to reclaim the parts I used.

The wood pieces across the top and lower right were 8 lobed rosettes. I believe the two left were 4 lobed. The two black ones, I don't recall. Some of my rosettes were 3D, rotate and advance work.

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The process for making this and similar closed vessels is to split the workpiece in two, then rough the outside. Next the inside of the bottom and top are hollowed. The top is epoxied back onto the bottom and the pattern is cut into the faces. The pattern is filled with brass powder and epoxy and finally the outside is finished turned.
 
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