Need help with using the plates and stomper

[Jim Grieco]

Hello! I want to try to do open segmented ornaments. I just watched Lloyd's short video series on how to do this unfortunately he did not go into detail/length about how to use the plate/stomper past the first row that glues to the waste block. Does anyone have a video that goes into detail about how to use and add rings etc? I have the plate on order and will make the stomper myself.
Thanks for any help!

 

[mfisher]

Here is one I found showing adding a ring further along the vessel build.

 

[Jim Grieco]

Here is one I found showing adding a ring further along the vessel build.

Thanks Mike!
BTW: I read an old post you were commenting on and I saw you live in SCW, AZ. I live in Glendale! I wish I would have known this before. We maybe could have met in person and you could have showed me how to do everything with that urn. Would have saved you a lot of frustration LOL.

 

[mfisher]

Thanks Mike!
BTW: I read an old post you were commenting on and I saw you live in SCW, AZ. I live in Glendale! I wish I would have known this before. We maybe could have met in person and you could have showed me how to do everything with that urn. Would have saved you a lot of frustration LOL.

Maybe someday when the covid rates are not so bad, we can meet sometime.
The SCW wood shop is something to see.

 

[Jim Grieco]

Maybe someday when the covid rates are not so bad, we can meet sometime.
The SCW wood shop is something to see.

My parents used to live in the older section of SCW off of R H Johnson. I saw that areas woodshop and it was nice.

 

[Stevie Porter]

Looking at purchasing Seg-Easy Plates but I'm just getting started with open segment, working with WTP and Segment pro. If i want to build a project for example that is 8" tall and starts out around 3" in dia and top ring is 8" with 24 seg per ring how may plate will i need or is it all done with one plate.
If you have a video or know of that walks through building a project and shows putting together multiple rings this would help
Thanks for help

 

[Ken Sherwin]

I have a 12 open segment plate (I assume a 24 segment plate will be similar) and it has a minimum dia of 1-1/2" and a max dia of 9-1/4". It looks like a single plate will fit your 3" to 8" range. I needed a 10-1/2" max dia so I increased the board thickness to make the ID of that ring 8-3/4" and the OD 10-1/2". I increased the SEL proportionally so that the tips of my segments fit into the plate locations and the bases of the segments gave me the material where I needed it. Once I glued the next ring on to stabilize the thick ring, I turned out the extraneous material, leaving the ring dimensions I wanted.

If you wanted a ring smaller than the minimum plate dimensions, you could resize that ring's segments similarly and then turn off what you don't want.

Here is the piece I did this way.

 

[Stevie Porter]

I have a 12 open segment plate (I assume a 24 segment plate will be similar) and it has a minimum dia of 1-1/2" and a max dia of 9-1/4". It looks like a single plate will fit your 3" to 8" range. I needed a 10-1/2" max dia so I increased the board thickness to make the ID of that ring 8-3/4" and the OD 10-1/2". I increased the SEL proportionally so that the tips of my segments fit into the plate locations and the bases of the segments gave me the material where I needed it. Once I glued the next ring on to stabilize the thick ring, I turned out the extraneous material, leaving the ring dimensions I wanted.

If you wanted a ring smaller than the minimum plate dimensions, you could resize that ring's segments similarly and then turn off what you don't want.

Here is the piece I did this way.

Thanks for the info, I was working on a layout and then i saw as the segment length grew it would move out on the plate, I guess I needed to see it laid out to understand