My Latest Turning Project, Blackwood and Holly Goblets

[charlese]

Stunningly beautiful!

[reible]

Wow! Way beyond that even!

Ed

[algale]

These are beautiful and should be the subject of the next News Blog, in my opinion.

More evidence of what you can't do on a Shopsmith.

[rjent]

Good grief! Those are simply amazing! The only thing that comes to mind is blown away.

Extremely well done. Simply no words!

[masonsailor2]

That is totally amazing ! Truly beautiful.
Paul

[roy_okc]

Those are outstanding! I think you won the post of the day on here if not the entire interwebs. Hope to see more of your work.

[sehast]

This is outstanding work. I have been thinking about trying a Barley twist on my CNC router with a rotary axis but to do one manually is true craftsmanship that I will probably never achieve.

[BedHedNed]

This is outstanding work. I have been thinking about trying a Barley twist on my CNC router with a rotary axis but to do one manually is true craftsmanship that I will probably never achieve.

It's not as hard as you think! Just time consuming. Cutting a barley twist with the contrasting wood showing in the grooves is just a matter of drilling a hole down the center and gluing a dowel of your wood of choice in the hole. Of course, drilling a straight hole that long takes some doing, I had to use a gun boring bit, an ordinary long bit is too flexible and won't drill a straight hole.

Mine is a little more complicated, of course, as I blended my twist with the veneer lines in the base and the flutes on the wider section at the top of the stem, which made it more difficult.

[moggymatt]

[quote="BedHedNed"

It's not as hard as you think! Just time consuming. Cutting a barley twist with the contrasting wood showing in the grooves is just a matter of drilling a hole down the center and gluing a dowel of your wood of choice in the hole. Of course, drilling a straight hole that long takes some doing, I had to use a gun boring bit, an ordinary long bit is too flexible and won't drill a straight hole.

Mine is a little more complicated, of course, as I blended my twist with the veneer lines in the base and the flutes on the wider section at the top of the stem, which made it more difficult.[/quote]

Oh. Right. I guess that helps me understand how it's done. I should be able to go knock a few out tonight in the shop no problem.

NOT!

Awsome job!

[ERLover]

@ BedHedNed, > my nephew is a turner, but not to your level, here is his response today when I sent him the pics, "DAMN, just gorgeous and talented"
He has taken an in house class a few times at WoodCraft in Appleton, WI lathe classes taught by a guy that is a turner that teaches at Greenbay, WI Tech College on turning, and I have seen some of his work, which is great, sure he could do this, if so desired, but DAMN!!! You turners, sure can turn out some GREAT things.