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Stunningly beautiful!

Wow! Way beyond that even!

Ed

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.

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

Extremely well done. Simply no words!

That is totally amazing ! Truly beautiful.
Paul

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.

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.

sehast wrote: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.

[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!

@ 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.