By Richard Raffan
ISBN-10: 1561584177
ISBN-13: 9781561584178
The charm of woodturning is straightforward with just a couple of hand instruments and a lathe, outstanding effects might be quick accomplished, together with attractive bowls, packing containers within the around, lamp bases, and furnishings components. And for over two decades, woodturners were turning to Richard Raffan for specialist suggestion and notion. Revised and up-to-date to embody the rise and development in turning instruments and lathes now out there, this up-to-date and extended version of his 1985 vintage covers every thing from the lathe -- the way it works and the way to settle on the fitting version -- to fixings, slicing instruments, security, measuring, centerwork, and extra. Raffan additionally encompasses a fresh bankruptcy on crafting hole vessels.
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The pedestal goes in the box with the bottom trunnion in the hole at the bottom of the box. This piece fits on the top tru nn ion . Place two screws to hold the top plat e in place. 32 Secure the jig to the bench. The dovetails are cut with a router, using a 7/8" dovetailing bit. The line on the jig aligns with the line we drew on the base of the table pedestal. 33 The screw at the bottom is a set screw. Once your alignment is correct it is very important to hold the pedestal in place with this screw before routing.
This establishes the ground around the leaves. At the neck the grain makes it necessary to go across the it from side to side . By removing the shaded areas we raise the leaves from the surface of the vase. Come from the centers out to the sides. Undercut beneath the gadroon. Relieve the wood around each of these overlapping fronds. There is a teardrop shaped section beside the each of the overlapping fronds, that is quite a deep space. Go straight in with your gouge... It should be something like this, with smoothing coming later.
With a smaller gouge, come back to the semi-circle starting at the point of the triangle formed by the two halves. 52 then move to a smaller gouge and deepen the triangle. Clean up around the semi-circle, using the small chisel to get in the corners... With a small gouge establish the lines along the center of the foliage. and a larger gouge to clean the general shape. Remember to change directions so you are slicing the grain and not cutting into it. Work away from the widest point of the vase bulb.