It has been rainy all day today, and it was not
dry enough for the current lot.
Upon wet sanding, therefore they remained in my room.
I do not go into details, but even with these containers
some refinement work was put into... For instance, I have
been careful not to clog up the small holes with my
polyurethane, but that means not doing much along the
contact lines all the way down the length of the containers.
Today, I have removed polyurethan deposits over these
contact lines. It was about time I had done it, anyway...
Take a look at the next.
It may be difficult to see them, but I made a leading hole
in each of these pieces, the intention being that in
addition to glueing, I need to screw pieces together
for rigidity. How would you do that? You want to use
fine screws, but then, you do not want see their heads
sticking out conspicuously...
So, addtional larger bore holes were created. Heads will
be hidden away in these extra bores.
OK, then the fate of the discs from yesterday?
My wife wanted them to become, not toast holders,
but saucers, small... and, all of them...
So, I have ended up with what follows.
What you are looking at are the bottoms.
The one in the middle of these is a saucer to be, with
my face plate still attached to the top side. Tommorrow,
the face plate will be removed and the saucer to be
will be gripped by my largest set of jaws. This is
illustrated in the following schematics.
I think I should talk more about turing. For now take a
look at A. You may see the eventual shape of the saucer.
The dotted line is the concave surface, to be created
tommorrow. In order to do just that you must grip the
disc, and the red solid lines indicate where my jaws
will be gripping the whole thing.
The blue bar at the bottom is just a shallow recess.
Let us now move on to B. Here, I have a small problem.
My jaws are parellell, but the biting space, or gripping
space is limited.
In order to achieve maximum gripping I have made the
gripping zone reverse-tapered slightly. I should not have
done it, or should have done it?...
The issue is this, as shown with C, the most extensive
parts of the saucer to be will be so tightly gripped and
this portion will be damaged by the pressure...
I can fix it by sanding around the edges, but, ...
Anyway, I will be talking more extensively about turning
in days to follow.
dry enough for the current lot.
Upon wet sanding, therefore they remained in my room.
I do not go into details, but even with these containers
some refinement work was put into... For instance, I have
been careful not to clog up the small holes with my
polyurethane, but that means not doing much along the
contact lines all the way down the length of the containers.
Today, I have removed polyurethan deposits over these
contact lines. It was about time I had done it, anyway...
Take a look at the next.
It may be difficult to see them, but I made a leading hole
in each of these pieces, the intention being that in
addition to glueing, I need to screw pieces together
for rigidity. How would you do that? You want to use
fine screws, but then, you do not want see their heads
sticking out conspicuously...
So, addtional larger bore holes were created. Heads will
be hidden away in these extra bores.
OK, then the fate of the discs from yesterday?
My wife wanted them to become, not toast holders,
but saucers, small... and, all of them...
So, I have ended up with what follows.
What you are looking at are the bottoms.
The one in the middle of these is a saucer to be, with
my face plate still attached to the top side. Tommorrow,
the face plate will be removed and the saucer to be
will be gripped by my largest set of jaws. This is
illustrated in the following schematics.
I think I should talk more about turing. For now take a
look at A. You may see the eventual shape of the saucer.
The dotted line is the concave surface, to be created
tommorrow. In order to do just that you must grip the
disc, and the red solid lines indicate where my jaws
will be gripping the whole thing.
The blue bar at the bottom is just a shallow recess.
Let us now move on to B. Here, I have a small problem.
My jaws are parellell, but the biting space, or gripping
space is limited.
In order to achieve maximum gripping I have made the
gripping zone reverse-tapered slightly. I should not have
done it, or should have done it?...
The issue is this, as shown with C, the most extensive
parts of the saucer to be will be so tightly gripped and
this portion will be damaged by the pressure...
I can fix it by sanding around the edges, but, ...
Anyway, I will be talking more extensively about turning
in days to follow.
