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Concentric rings
- Thread starter Dick
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Wayne Miller
PRO Member
I have not found a way. When I design a "Keeper Ring" for a floating base I just decide upon an OD and an ID and make it as a separate 1 layer project. This might be tedious for what you want. Just curious, when you do this do you brick lay the rings, if not, you could just construct them from a lamination. Doing that would require great care and accuracy and still leave the issue of what to do in the center., which I would also like to know about your method. Wayne
I do chip carving and use a basswood inset in the top to carve. The tops are not brick laid, the concentric rings end up flush with one another, turn the piece to inset with a very slight taper, then cut the outer ring to fit it. Kind of like fitting lids on end grain boxes. I have been making very thin overlapping rings for the ones that are concentric realizing that they are the same thickness as the ring below. That gives me the board width and segment length. As for the center, I do large handles that fill the center, not segmented, usually solid, have not had good luck making segments smaller then 4 inch diameter. A simple lamination is quicker and looks better that small.
I'm afraid there isn't a way to do concentric rings in Woodturner PRO. There are a couple additional ring types that I may add in future releases, but they will be rings that follow the traditional methodology of segmented vessels where each ring sits atop the previous ring. To have two rings occupy the same vertical space would be a massive re-write of the source code and would benefit a very small percentage of the user base. I'm not saying it isn't a good idea, but I could never justify the programming effort.
I do have a suggestion, though - where you want to have concentric rings, add the first ring and then add a row above it and change the row type to 'Blank Space'. Then add your next concentric ring and size it appropriately and continue adding rows above it. Obviously, this isn't going to show you how the completed vessel will look, but since you're working at either the top of the bottom of the vessel, you should be able to visualize the finished shape.
I use the Blank Space row type often. For example, if I'm going to make a vessel in sections and then glue the sections together, I put a blank space between each section and it allows me to better focus on each individual section. I always do this if I made a vessel that will have a segmented detached top.
Lloyd