Dean Matthews
11-02-2007, 9:59 PM
So... The wife and kid were MIA today so I decided to go and goof off in the garage. For months I have been buying the stuff from the bargin bins over at Klingspore's for practice. When I bought my lathe one of the things I really wanted to do was/is goblets. I have done some VERY small ones as wine stoppers and today decided to give a full size one a shot.
It came out okay considering it was my first big one and it is from "cheap" wood (I think the 4"x4"x15" blank cost me like $1.50).
When I started making the goblet I rounded out the square blank with my gouge while the blank was between the spur center and the live center. Got it round, and then put a small tenon on one end to put it in my oneway chuck.
Brought the tailstock back up and made sure the blank still ran true. Everything seemed fine.
I formed the outside of the cup portion (without doing the stem) and then removed the tail stock and hollowed out the cup.
Now... when I did the outside I did not refine the whole shape. I wanted to get more of the inside cut out first. And everything seemed to be tracking just fine.
Somewhere along the line the piece must have moved. I noticed that the outside was kind of off center from the inside. I tried to correct, but nothing.
I had brought the tailstock back into play at one point. I put some t-shirt rag material in the bowl and brought the live center in on that so as not to damage the wood.
Everything else turned fine... it just got a little weird on the cup. Any thoughts?
here are "all" of the pix:
http://picasaweb.google.com/doctorew/FullSizeGoblet
(oh... it's "finished" with Tung Oil)
It came out okay considering it was my first big one and it is from "cheap" wood (I think the 4"x4"x15" blank cost me like $1.50).
When I started making the goblet I rounded out the square blank with my gouge while the blank was between the spur center and the live center. Got it round, and then put a small tenon on one end to put it in my oneway chuck.
Brought the tailstock back up and made sure the blank still ran true. Everything seemed fine.
I formed the outside of the cup portion (without doing the stem) and then removed the tail stock and hollowed out the cup.
Now... when I did the outside I did not refine the whole shape. I wanted to get more of the inside cut out first. And everything seemed to be tracking just fine.
Somewhere along the line the piece must have moved. I noticed that the outside was kind of off center from the inside. I tried to correct, but nothing.
I had brought the tailstock back into play at one point. I put some t-shirt rag material in the bowl and brought the live center in on that so as not to damage the wood.
Everything else turned fine... it just got a little weird on the cup. Any thoughts?
here are "all" of the pix:
http://picasaweb.google.com/doctorew/FullSizeGoblet
(oh... it's "finished" with Tung Oil)