Project by SKMoss | posted 02-18-2020 01:17 PM | 1212 views | 1 time favorited | 9 comments | ![]() |
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Hi, all. Long time lurker, first-time poster.
This is a wood torus I made a couple of years back, It’s 350+ segments, with 7 species of wood. Walnut, Zebrano, Mahogany, Purpleheart, Paduk, Oak, Maple. It’s about 11” diameter.
It was turned on a Jet 1221 lathe, using mid-size carbide set from Rockler.
-- Thanks, Steve
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toyguy
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#1 posted 02-18-2020 04:14 PM
Well done….
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Dark_Lightning
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#2 posted 02-18-2020 04:25 PM
That’s really cool! Did you carve that figure standing next to the torus?
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SKMoss
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#3 posted 02-18-2020 04:28 PM
Na. I figured that is a good shot of Groot before and after….
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Phil32
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#4 posted 02-19-2020 02:01 AM
My question is how did you hold the torus on your lathe? A jam chuck? A 4-jaw chuck with long jaws? It would be hard to get that 350+ piece glue-up centered.
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#5 posted 02-19-2020 02:29 AM
That is pretty impressive.
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SKMoss
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#6 posted 02-19-2020 02:30 AM
It was my 3rd turning project and I didn’t have much of a clue how to hold it. I know better now, but it worked out.
The first cut it was just centered and screwed to a plate. After it was rounded I parted it off the plate, flipped it and used a jam. Lightly tightened and persuaded to center with a mallet, then hot melt glue to hold it. To get the final inside I screwed a piece of ply to the chuck about 1” bigger than the torus was at that point, then sandwiched the torus between that and 2 pieces of wood and again used the mallet with liberal force to get it centered.
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#7 posted 02-19-2020 11:08 AM
That is cool!
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#8 posted 02-19-2020 12:46 PM
Thank you all for the kind comments.
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doubleDD
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#9 posted 02-19-2020 02:04 PM
Excellent in all ways. Very creative.
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