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Daniel Meldrum

I watched this last night on tv and for most of his pieces i could not work out how he made the blanks, Dave
 
Most of his works are accomplished by rotating repeating pentgon/hexagon/octagons etc.workin from the inside out usin staves rather than rings. How he is so precise and how he laminated are the mysteries. Does anyone out there have any further information on Meldrums methods? I woul love to do some pieces in his style bu would hate to have to reinvent the jigs etc, from scratch. It would be quite a facinating journey though! Regards , Mike
 
I must say I was quite surprised to be scrolling through the Segmented Turnings Forum and saw my name listed there. I assumed it was for my Grandfathers work and I was pleased to see it shared again.

Mike is correct on how some of those pieces are done, and the precision was definitely there for sure.

Unfortunately this information / technique / process wasn't passed down before he passed away. However, that is not going to stop me from trying to pick it up myself.
 
Toward the end of last year
Julian Roslanowski, Bruce Berger and Jim Driskell
posted this on Title: Home - Segmented Woodturners


Finished3.jpg Julian Roslanowski

editedSwirl Imitated.jpg Bruce Berger

item 189.jpg Jim Driskell

Same as one of Daniel Meldrum designs.

Jim Driskell also, posted a step by step procedure on how he made the piece.
 
Daniel,
Was your Grandfather a mathematician? I would think there would be a lot of math involved in figuring some of these turnings out.
 
Bob, thanks for sharing those pieces. I had seen Julians work on the lumberjocks forum but hadn't seen the other two yet.

Frank, he was a cabinet maker by trade and then worked at a university for a while before retirement.
 
Thanks Daniel. I seem to be one of those "geometrically challenged" people. I can't imagine coming up with some of those designs without some mathematics involved.
 
Frank, I am the opposite I would think. My mathematics lets me down in this sort of space so I work with my eyes. I haven't yet used the software, I downloaded a trial and got about an hours use out of it and didn't get back to it before it expired.

I imagine my Grandfather didn't use a computer for his work so I am having a go at designing a piece on paper first with the most assistance being the Segment Calculator for Android devices. Other than that and a calculator it's been drawings on paper and taking measurements.

I have done a few segmented pens, 1 segmented vase of about 270 pieces and this next piece is planned to be over a metre tall and with 5000 pieces. We'll see how it goes... ;-)
 
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