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What’s on your lathe?

something different. a Styrofoam cannon, five feet by 14" at the bottom.
museum has received 19 cannons from a river dredge project and wants to display them. at 1200 lbs. each they don't move easy.
so, make a light sample for a display rack till they decide how. Will be covered and painted.
started as 20 x 20 block five feet long on a 3x3 wood spindle. used a chain saw to reduce it then a skew to shape it and sandpaper to finish.
a blower took care of clean up.
 

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something different. a Styrofoam cannon, five feet by 14" at the bottom.
museum has received 19 cannons from a river dredge project and wants to display them. at 1200 lbs. each they don't move easy.
so, make a light sample for a display rack till they decide how. Will be covered and painted.
started as 20 x 20 block five feet long on a 3x3 wood spindle. used a chain saw to reduce it then a skew to shape it and sandpaper to finish.
a blower took care of clean up.
Very cool!
 
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