Osage Orange Supported Spindle

Another great looking supported spindle Lisa… well done… curious how you get the taper perfect everytime…
Let us all know your secret if you dare…
Wisty

Hi Wisty! There are a couple of tapers in there… which one? The tip, the neck, or the shaft?

I use a very large skew and abuse it. I make sure it's really as sharp as I can get it and cut down the neck first (more scraping than cutting). Then I use a Spindlemaster Sorby tool and rough down the shaft and create the taper of the neck.

To get the shaft and neck to an even taper, I alternate between sanding and cutting… I end up sanding a lot. However, because I'm eyeballing each milimeter of removal… the tapering just "happens". Lots of little adjustments which now seem second nature to me… I've made more than 40 of these now.

Hi Lisa…
I tried making a couple of turning similar to yours (just for fun while a glue up was drying) and found the long taper was the hardest to create… the neck seemed very easy as did the head piece… I just have to find a better way to support the turning in the center as I take it down in diameter… currently it ends up "wobbling" around a lot causing my tools to gouge into it once in a while…
anyways, always a pleasure to see what your up to…
Take care and keep turning… looking forward to your next creation…
Wisty

can see your doing your magic lisa…very nice turning…

Lisa:
Is this called a supported spindle because it's supported during the turning or is there another reason?

Another great spindle Lisa. It is strange that when you get the hang of something (the taper) It SEEMS easy to do, but hard to explain. When I try and show people how I turn something they are all confused. haha (glad I have this site where you know what I mean)haha

Keep up the great work.

Scrappy

Someday I will get a lathe and know what you are talking about… LOL. It does indeed look hard to do.

nice work

Very nice turning and perfect tapers : )