1st glueup

[Apollo1617]

Only partially sanded. I have to talk the bride into me getting a drum sander.

 

[mfisher]

the joints look good.

Nice job.

 

[Ken Sherwin]

I have to talk the bride into me getting a drum sander.

That's wonderful if you're looking for an excuse to get one anyway. I've had varying success with these techniques:
1. Hold a ring in a set of Cole jaws using just flathead screws that will bite into the outside of the ring. The usual rubber fingers that come with the jaws won't hold tightly enough in my opinion.
2. Face the ring as flat as I can get it. I use a 5/8" bowl gouge.
3. Because I'm not a perfect turner, the ring isn't perfectly flat. To get it flat, I tried various things:
- sandpaper on a board with the ring still on the lathe but it was easy to sand the outer area more than the inner area, resulting in making a shallow cone that will hit the next ring on only the ID.
- a drum sander but it left a wavy surface cutting deeper when there was less wood contacting the drum (typically halfway through the ring) and shallower where there was more wood under the drum (typically near the beginning and end of the sanding pass). I think my sander wasn't stiff enough.
- a random orbit sander with the ring still on the lathe. The bigger the sanding pad, the easier it will by to keep the ring face flat. A 6" pad on a sander worked pretty well.
-As an engineer, I'm always looking to improve any process I'm using so I found a way to turn my 16" lathe into a random orbit sander with a 12" pad. This works extremely well as seen in YouTube video

starting at 22:45 and ending at 35:05.

On a previously discussed note, 9:19 through 11:00 shows using the sanding mop to debur segments.