What’s on your lathe?

[Craig Duncan]

I want to say Thanks to Dave Wyke for saving my bacon.

Scrolling through the photo gallery, I saw the hearts you turned and I thought it'd make a great Christmas present for my daughter in law.
Course, I've never turned a heart before.
So I gave it a whirl, worst thing that could happen is I'd add one more apple pie to my baking chores tomorrow.

I think it came out OK for a 1st attempt.
She'll be happy with it.

Craig

 

[Phil Hamel]

Playing with finials using maple. Need to make an ornament body with holes in it now.

 

[John K Jordan]

....decided to do a bead instead of my standard platter rim

Looks great. I love the bead that defines the inside of the rim. I think it attracts the eye and adds interest.
(and the figure and color of the piece is beautiful!)

I've used inside rim beads myself, long time ago!
(The wood on mine is a little plain though!)
I can't remember ever using an outside rim bead.

 

[Terry Sphar]

Couple of projects.. Natural edge Mesquite bowl and Ambrosia Maple vaseView attachment 50142View attachment 50143

Very nice work. Beautiful piece of wood!

 

[David Wyke]

Looks great. I love the bead that defines the inside of the rim. I think it attracts the eye and adds interest.
(and the figure and color of the piece is beautiful!)

I've used inside rim beads myself, long time ago!
(The wood on mine is a little plain though!)
I can't remember ever using an outside rim bead.

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I saw Glen Lucas do a rim bead a couple years ago in one of his videos. I’ve done one on a walnut platter and decided to do one on this maple. I usually do rims like the ones you posted.

 

[Phil Hamel]

Small piece of practice birch.
Wife says I failed!
Wanted the holes to look like a snowman. Should have used 3 size drills!
Put a nickel down to try and show how small the finials actually are.

 

[David Wyke]

Beautiful day to work outside but finished the day turning this little 9-1/2 x 5” maple. I wanted to enclose the rim a little more but I can live with it as is. Now it’s time to wrap Christmas gifts for my granddaughter

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Beautiful day to work outside but finished the day turning this little 9-1/2 x 5” maple. I wanted to enclose the rim a little more but I can live with it as is. Now it’s time to wrap Christmas gifts for my granddaughter

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Lovely! I just finished hollowing some of that wood—just some neck work and the bottom to go.

 

[David Wyke]

Lovely! I just finished hollowing some of that wood—just some neck work and the bottom to go.

Nice shape!!
I was thinking about removing the tenon and foot on this one and calling it a Hawaiian bowl like Umeke, but people who turn those are very particular so I would have to call it a Mapleke

 

[Joel Daniels]

3 1/4” x 5” cherry burl bowl.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Nice shape!!
I was thinking about removing the tenon and foot on this one and calling it a Hawaiian bowl like Umeke, but people who turn those are very particular so I would have to call it a Mapleke

Post it as a mapleke and see what happens.

 

[Darryl Fective]

Another glass tile rim, this time on an ash bowl.

 

[Webb Willmott]

My honey is using more honey these days so I thought she could use a helper. Just burnished beeswax.

 

[John K Jordan]

My honey is using more honey these days so I thought she could use a helper. Just burnished beeswax.

A friend said after it got a lathe (about 45 years ago) he made and sold zillions of honey dippers at craft fairs. He's a potter too so a nice ceramic honey jar probably upped the ante.

I like the pot/lid/dipper combo - most I've seen with lids had just a little cutout for the dipper.

JKJ

 

[James Seyfried]

A purpleheart finial/icicle. I like a longer tenon to hold it better.


I like to cut the tenon off to make it lighter. I used to use the yellow "finial chucky" making the finial, but now I use it to center it when I remount it to cut off the excess tenon. I do move it back when I part it off.

 

[John K Jordan]

A purpleheart finial/icicle. I like a longer tenon to hold it better.

I like to cut the tenon off to make it lighter. I used to use the yellow "finial chucky" making the finial, but now I use it to center it when I remount it to cut off the excess tenon. I do move it back when I part it off.

Very nice finial! I like turning purple heart - I once found some some purpleheart that simply refuses to turn brown. Wish I could find more!
If that one s going on an ornament it'd be nice to see the finished piece!

Hey, have you ever used a 2MT collet to hold finials and other small things? Turn a 1/2" tenon and tighten in the 1/2" collet. One nice thing: unlike typically with a chuck, if the piece is removed and remounted it's still perfectly registered.

If I want to move it out some to size and cut of the end I just make the tenon a bit longer (maybe 1-1/4") and it still registers nicely.



A set of 2MT collets usually goes from 1/8" to 1/2" in 1/16" increments. Typically used for metalworking but work great with wood!

JKJ