Feet turning - Must be contagerous...

[Jim Underwood]

Well I no sooner turned a bunch of feet for the nightstands I'm making, than the boss wanted some feet turned for a bowfront vanity we were making. He'd put off ordering them...

So off to the house I went and fired up the lathe... It took me about 2 hours to cut all five of these. Ok.. so I'm a little slow. But they worked and it got the vanity out of the shop... And just to show the finished work, a couple extra pix of the vanity.

[Jim Underwood]

A couple weeks later, the boss didn't order ENOUGH feet for a kitchen we were building. :rolleyes:

So yesterday I popped off to my shop again and turned some more...

The one on the left is the original, and the two on the right are the ones I turned. Notice the "oops, I parted this too short" line at the bottom of the middle one. I filled it with CA and coffee since it's going to get painted- no harm, no foul, right?:D OH yeah, and the template is the piece of paper in the foreground. Pretty essential for turning something with this many elements in it.

Watch, next month it'll be columns or something...

[Mike Peace]

Well done. Being able to do something of value that no one else in the shop can do usually adds to job security.

[David E Keller]

That's great... I wish I had a reason to leave work and do a little turning during the day!

[Tony Greenway]

Those really look good, Jim.....I've had the pleasure of getting to turn a few cabinet related pieces during the workday myself. Nothing like firing up the lathe in the middle of the afternoon {:O)

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice work on everything Jim! I've turned a few when we made our footstools - great feeling to turn something that is functional and gets used every day!

[Mark Hubl]

Very nice Jim. Nice to see hand turned cabinet work.

[Ron Stadler]

cabinet looks really nice, and good job on the feet. Also the duplication on the other feet look really good, to bad you parted the one off a little short, but like you said,if you can fix it no harm done.

[Michael Mills]

Nice job on those.
When I read your title I assumed you had ventured into this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnv0DAR_gWA

[Bernie Weishapl]

Nice job Jim. I always say I might be slow but I am steady.

[bob svoboda]

Great job of duplication. Nice to make something functional once in a while.