Recent content by Peter1958

A local store has these blanks on the shelf now and he challenged me to make a segmented pen with it. The woods used are yew, padauk and wenge. Black and white pvc for the contrast. This is the result

this is stunning!!

segmented little bowls, stackable

ash padouk and wenge

ash 216 pieces, padouk 240, weng 240, tornado 264 pieces. all finished with shellawax, nice finish!

Jazz bolt pen kit, segmented blank

Wenge, yew, red azobe and pvc 0.25 mm thick. CA finish

Well, here's a different approach to the grain. In bowls 99% of all turnings is side grain, but with pens i often have end grain, depending of the (segmented) design. The tools i use in the first place is a spindle gauge crown pro-pm half inch. Then i have made 6 or 8 scrapers from old...

Thanks, 4 species of wood and very nice software to design!!

ready, 7849 pieces of wood, some patience, a bottle of glue and some laquer to finish!

72 segments a row, 109 rows. clear laquer finish

Far from a ready vase, still gluing and turning but i can't resist. Until now 6840 segments (95 rows 72 segments) glued and ready to turn the last row. it will be 7848 pieces (109 rows) for the umbrella stand. I thought of sharing it already.

The pictures name shows the number of pieces in a ring (96) rows (58) thickness of the woods (5mm) and the date.

That is ok, show us the result if you made it

Yes, but how does that work again? The design was only saved as image and printed. Not as plan.