Segmented Pot

[Scott Hackler]

This is my 2nd attempt at segmented. The first one doesnt deserve a post. :( I learned a lot from the first mistake and was able to be sucessful this time around.

Its about 5" at the widest and about 4" tall. Oak w/ a walnut band, finished with 2 coats of antique oil.

Oh and the fist set of pictures from the newest toy a Canon T2i Rebel digital SLR camera!

C & C welcome, thanks.

http://members.cox.net/cabletech/seg1.jpg

http://members.cox.net/cabletech/seg2.jpg

http://members.cox.net/cabletech/seg3.jpg

[Steve Schlumpf]

Looks pretty good Scott! Nice job on the joinery! Sure is some pretty wood!

Real nice photos! Congrats on your new camera! I just got the Canon T1i in January - love it!

[John Keeton]

Nice job!! Good work on the glue joints - tight!

That camera must be popular - my son just got one, as well!

[Robert McGowen]

C & C welcome, thanks.


Hi Scott,

First of all, your joints look great and your alignment looks pretty much perfect. Your alignment is actually really, really good considering that this is your second piece.

Second, if you make the number of rings in your bands be a multiple of 2, then you avoid that look where it appears that the joints all line up, as in the middle and the top portions. You could split the band into 2 rings and then glue them to each other or make two thinner rings. That way your joints will look staggered all the way through the piece. (I know that they are now, I am just commenting on the appearance.) Also, if you were to pick probably the worst way to construct the base as far as wood movement is concerned, it would be the way that you have yours made. The wood moves in and out. It has no where to move inwards with out something giving and if it moves out at all something has to give also. Hopefully, it is small enough that it will work for you, but I would try a different style of base construction next time.

I look forward to seeing your third piece.

[Kevin Stanbary]

Scott,

Looks great! I've been itching to try segmented work myself.

Congrats on the T2i... I bought a T1i in December myself and am having a blast with it.

Robert, I'm curious what your recommendation would be to fix the base construction?

[Robert McGowen]

I'm curious what your recommendation would be to fix the base construction?

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=111222&highlight=floating+base+segmented

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=141311&highlight=floating+base+segmented

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking piece Scott. Joints and alignment look good.

[Michelle Rich]

For a second one I think you did great..that base is really very good..to get all those to a point..good cutting..but the base would give you trouble if it were bigger. It is standard to make your pieces in a brickwork type fashion, from row to row, as all joints in each layer are end grain, and can be weak. Keep at it, and lets see 3-4-5-

[Scott Hackler]

Thanks for the comments and advise. I will most likely do some more segmented turnings but let me say that after a 72 piece project, segementing is a pain in the _ _ _!. Three days of cutting and glueing (before I could go round and round on the lathe) was about all I could take!

I have a new found appreciation for you segmented turners. You all have a lot of patience. I was so pleased about the end result of the bottom of thie piece that I never thought about how it might move on me. Doh! Hopefully this one will stay intact as it is only about 2 1/2" in dia on the bottom. Probably about 1/4" thick on the bottom and 1/8" walls. It was definitely a learning experience.

Robert, it took me a while to understand what you were talking about with the bands being in groups of 2, but now I understand and yes that would have made it more pleasing to the eye. I will also have to do some research on a "floating" bottom, like you have done. If I do another (and I probably will) it will likely be a lot bigger because I like turning large projects and with a billion little pieces cut and glued and turned I sure wouldnt want to loose a finished project to wood swelling!

....now to figure out how to do that countryside scene in the side of the segmented bowl.... :)

[David E Keller]

Nice work on the joints... They look great. I'd have to start on xanax to find the patience to do all that cutting, sanding, and gluing. I don't know how you guys(and gals) do it.

[David Warkentin]

Just don't try to do it all at once. Work on it tonight for awhile, tomorrow for a little, etc. Suddenly you're finished!:DDavid