Recent content by Peter1958

Some people asked me if i could make some segmented pens, so we designed them, i made them. A large Jr. Gentleman fountain pen is the first one. Woods wenge, beech, padouk and merbau. Pvc cards black and white are used as contrasting elements. The second one is a ballpoint pen, ProzX art deco...

What a beauty, very very nice.

For me it depends on the size of the ring and the thickness i want. When a ring is 12mm thick or so, i use the drumsander to flatten the rings. When gluing them i alwas check on the lathe and sand if necessairy with a board and sandpaper. It must be perfectly flat. I added the picture of a...

On a FB-page i showed a few pens and bowls i made last year. Many reactions on all items. Also a question if i can make cat-pens, so i made 4 of them. Here they are.

I forgot the dimensions. The widest point 140 mm, hight 370 mm, woods used are merbau, wenge, ash and padouk. 4969 pieces of wood, about 400 grams woodglue. Sandpaper, 60, 120, 150, 320 and 1000 grit.

Vase 72 segments, 69 rows and 1 piece of padouk.

pattern is made with segment pro, drawn 20 times and erased 19 times.

Padouk has a dark side and a bright side, so i tried to show it very nicely 1 coat of waterbased polyurethane. 100 hours of fun.

I'm working on a 72 pieces per ring vase ( row 41 is glued on). My tablesaw is from 1946 ( combination machine) and the sled is not that accurate. I tested 8 glued together wood pieces. then taped with a painterstape to keep the pieces from flying around. So i cut 8 pieces in 1 go. I measured...

I live in Europe, so these disks are a bit expensive to buy for me. (Shipping!) now i have been thinking for a alternative that i can make myself without a cnc machine. My first try was a disk like Tom Lohman sells at his website. That works well enough, but not that accurate, within 0.5 mm i...

Hello Lloyd, Now i know it, it is no issue for me anymore. Thanks for adressing it. Peter

I work in metrics too and have that bug also. When i save the design i always hae the dimensions in the name of the file, like 96, 58, 5, 305 vase. 96 segments, 58 rows, 5 mm thickness of the wood and 305 mm hight. When i want to see the plan again i adjust the parameters and all works again...

segmented bowl 5592 pieces, 2 coats of polyurethane

different view

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