Donuts

[Bruce Koch]

This is what my son turned recently. 3072 pieces. I never know what goes on in his head. Enjoy. By the way the table is his great grandparents or my grandparents.
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[Doug Reesor]

Beautiful work. Malcolm Tibbets might even be impressed!

[Doug W Swanson]

Impressive!

[Thomas Canfield]

Definitely not Krispy Kreme. Incredible.

[John K Jordan]

That's amazing!

[Randy Red Bemont]

Complicatedly beautiful!

Red

[David Delo]

Awesome piece of work. Hats-off to people that have the patience to do stuff like this.

[James Combs]

A truly awesome piece of artwork.

[brian zawatsky]

That's amazing! I don't even understand how you would pull something like that off.

[Jeramie Johnson]

Wow, that is impressive. Nice bowl set to boot.

[Sid Matheny]

WOW! ​That should impress anyone!

[Len Mullin]

Outstanding!!!
Len

[Jeff Walters]

Impressive and Inspiring.

[fran tarkenton]

Obviously I'm going to have to get a new lathe.... And maybe some new tools....

My equipment doesn't produce things like that!

Fantastic!

[Robert Marshall]

Does anyone know how this is done? I'd love to get an insight into that.

I assume that the last step is to cut one of the two donuts in half, and glue it back together, passing through the donut-hole of the other. But how the donuts are made is my big puzzlement.

[Jon Nuckles]

Does anyone know how this is done? I'd love to get an insight into that.

I assume that the last step is to cut one of the two donuts in half, and glue it back together, passing through the donut-hole of the other. But how the donuts are made is my big puzzlement.

Here (http://phiwoodworks.com/category/torus/) is a website with pictures that show the process. Start at the bottom and scroll up.

To be clear, I do not have any experience with these, just simple google skills. I searched for "segmented turning torus" and this was one of the first results. He credits the design of his torus to Malcolm Tibbets, so maybe Malcolm's website is the place to start.

[Robert Marshall]

Thanks for the link explaining how.

There must be a boatload of sanding dust involved, turning a flat segmented ring into a wedge shape.

I think "torus" was the missing search term when I looked at this. I need a better math background!

I had already looked at Malcolm Tibbets website; he shows lots of finished work, but plays his "how-to" cards pretty close to the chest. I guess it's like being a magician; don't want to give away the trade secrets.

[Jeffrey J Smith]

I had already looked at Malcolm Tibbets website; he shows lots of finished work, but plays his "how-to" cards pretty close to the chest. I guess it's like being a magician; don't want to give away the trade secrets.

Actually, Malcomb is really forthcoming with information. He's got a book that's easily available: The Art of Segmented Wood Turning: A Step-By-Step Guide, youtube videos, and he demos at clubs and symposia on a regular basis. He's been known to answer direct inquiries with good, solid information, and is a great teacher of his particular form of art.

[Glenn C Roberts]

Try searching for segmented wood donut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO572xNQ6x4

[Ron Stadler]

Uh yeah, I can't do that yet :(