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turning a genie bottle

Gary Chapman

Gary Chapman

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I started turning a genie bottle yesterday. I spindle turned the shape first, big mistake for now I can't hollow it out for I don't have a vacumn chuck. I tried other methods but I am lost.
I should have turnesd a large cylinder with a chuck mount, then turned the bottom and hollowed it out, them chucked into the bottom of the bottle finishing out the top, then glue on a bottom between centers putting glue pressure on it.
Can someone give me another idea how to save the one I turned?
Thanks Gary
 
Gary I do geni bottle shapes by hollowing through the bottom. I mount the wood in a chuck or faceplate and then turn the outside. If the neck is very thin I leave this thick at the early stages. Then I drill a hole in the bottom and hollow it. When I get to the neck I drill it out deeper than the lip. Then I part this off. I turn a tenon on a wasteblock that is the size of the hole in the bottom and flatten the surrounding area. Then I place the bottle on this and use tape to hole everything. I only need to hollow and reshape the inside of the neck a little.
 
Gary is there room for a tenon on the bottom? If not then your only choice I see is a jam chuck made the size of the widest part of the outside of the bottle. Need to be careful with the pressure as the walls get thinner where the chuck is holding the piece.
 
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