Internal Demo of Off Centre Turning by Alan Edwards
Following on from Ian Ethell’s demo about eccentric turning Alan choose a different subject within the same discipline – pendants turned off centre. Firstly he showed a large audience how to make the jig to hold the blank to be turned. After rounding his blank to the required size and thickness he mounted this off centre to a backboard with hot melt glue before making a hole to the correct size for the blanks he’d prepared.
He then rounded the edges of the blank between centres before mounting it into the jig. Once mounted in the chuck Alan turned a bevel and hole in his yew blank before turning the jig round and repeating the turning to the reverse side.
For his next pendant Alan again rounded the corners of a a paduak blank in the same way before turning a series of centred rings with his thin parting tool. To reverse turn the blank he mounted it onto a block of wood with hot melt glue and off centred it repeating the same rings.
The reverse turning then broke through to the original producing a lacy ‘cobweb’ effect. Thanks to Alan for a thoroughly absorbing evening.
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