A Finial Repair Project
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:37 pm
My young niece could see I needed more practical jobs than polishing my machine and sitting at the computer 
.
She asked me to fix a finial-top on her bed-post. I decided the old one won't be worth gluing, and too many parts are missing already.
Part of "affording" the PowerPro for me was selling off my Talon chuck. I've decided I work slow enough that I've got the time to make special faceplate setups or other homemade chucking gadgets. So here is the Faceplate being used.
Here is the old finial sitting above a new billet of wood (some laminated poplar planks). I already bored a center-hole in the "bottom" of the billet using the Tailstock chuck, so it's on to the rounding and shaping, done between centers for stability.
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Here I've made a very rough initial shaping, using a piece of cardboard to check my work. From this point on, I need to catch up on family time, sharpen my chisels, and rest up to think about the subsequent detail work as best I can....
Gratuitous PowerPro photo. You don't need a PowerPro to do this work:[ATTACH]12138[/ATTACH]
.She asked me to fix a finial-top on her bed-post. I decided the old one won't be worth gluing, and too many parts are missing already.
Part of "affording" the PowerPro for me was selling off my Talon chuck. I've decided I work slow enough that I've got the time to make special faceplate setups or other homemade chucking gadgets. So here is the Faceplate being used.
Here is the old finial sitting above a new billet of wood (some laminated poplar planks). I already bored a center-hole in the "bottom" of the billet using the Tailstock chuck, so it's on to the rounding and shaping, done between centers for stability.
[ATTACH]12137[/ATTACH]
Here I've made a very rough initial shaping, using a piece of cardboard to check my work. From this point on, I need to catch up on family time, sharpen my chisels, and rest up to think about the subsequent detail work as best I can....
Gratuitous PowerPro photo. You don't need a PowerPro to do this work:[ATTACH]12138[/ATTACH]
