Dan Mosley
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Today i have about 3hrs of free time and decided to slowly make a hollow form now that i have my Monster hollowing rig which was still in the box. So off the the garage i went and sat down for a bit to think about how i wanted to approach making my first hollow form. I can remember someone telling me that you should make a wide open bowl and use it that way so you can see exactly what the rig and lazer are doing. It makes alot of good sense to do that but oohhhhhh nooooo i decided im going for it and making a narrow open vessel with a fair amount of depth to it.....
Picked up a nice pc of wood chucked it up and turned the outside of the vessel and made my tennon - reversed it and thought to myself i have a good idea.....placed a drill bit in my chuck and bored it down but it would not go as deep as i needed to go so i have some auger bits that are long so i attached them after the first pilot hole was drilled and then drilled again to the depth i wanted (wobbled a alot gonig in that deep) (see Pic-1-3)
Then i grabbed my index cutter and Ci1 and hogged out a large portion of the vessel. Figured this would good for a large part of the hollowing so i tried it - worked well but i had to make the opening just a bit bigger than i wanted but it was my first shot on making a vessel so during the hollowing the tennon got torn up bad and broke in area - probably due to me tightening it hard and when cutting (the wood was very dry) it was jumping a bit - tools were all sharp also. I stopped and thought well i guess that is that for this pc of wood - broke tennon and partly hollowed - no way to hold it in the machine now...........Then i remembered the cone i bought after a hollowing class i took so i made a cone plug for the shaft and put it in the lathe - (see Pics-4&5)..... jambing it between the opening and the broken tennon and turned a new tennon in moments.
So now back in buss and put it back into the chuck and finished the rough hollowing
Cleaned up well and put my stool in front of the lathe and stared putting together the Hollowing rig. Had my lap top with the "how to" file on it from Monster Tools on my work bench and thought i was all set........"Wrong"......
As i was putting it together my lap top flashes that it has a system error and needs to shut down...........WHAT !!!!!!! well ok alot of bad words....
So i got as far as i could and it was getting late and now i had to fix a computer problem. Last set of pictures shows how i left it until i have more time........hopefully tomm ill have a chance.........
Question - i need to assemble the laser next on it and i not quit clear how it assembles and holds down on the arm part...anybody have a pic they can post showing this part of the assembly ?
Ok thanks for listening.......Dan
Picked up a nice pc of wood chucked it up and turned the outside of the vessel and made my tennon - reversed it and thought to myself i have a good idea.....placed a drill bit in my chuck and bored it down but it would not go as deep as i needed to go so i have some auger bits that are long so i attached them after the first pilot hole was drilled and then drilled again to the depth i wanted (wobbled a alot gonig in that deep) (see Pic-1-3)
Then i grabbed my index cutter and Ci1 and hogged out a large portion of the vessel. Figured this would good for a large part of the hollowing so i tried it - worked well but i had to make the opening just a bit bigger than i wanted but it was my first shot on making a vessel so during the hollowing the tennon got torn up bad and broke in area - probably due to me tightening it hard and when cutting (the wood was very dry) it was jumping a bit - tools were all sharp also. I stopped and thought well i guess that is that for this pc of wood - broke tennon and partly hollowed - no way to hold it in the machine now...........Then i remembered the cone i bought after a hollowing class i took so i made a cone plug for the shaft and put it in the lathe - (see Pics-4&5)..... jambing it between the opening and the broken tennon and turned a new tennon in moments.
So now back in buss and put it back into the chuck and finished the rough hollowing
Cleaned up well and put my stool in front of the lathe and stared putting together the Hollowing rig. Had my lap top with the "how to" file on it from Monster Tools on my work bench and thought i was all set........"Wrong"......
As i was putting it together my lap top flashes that it has a system error and needs to shut down...........WHAT !!!!!!! well ok alot of bad words....
So i got as far as i could and it was getting late and now i had to fix a computer problem. Last set of pictures shows how i left it until i have more time........hopefully tomm ill have a chance.........
Question - i need to assemble the laser next on it and i not quit clear how it assembles and holds down on the arm part...anybody have a pic they can post showing this part of the assembly ?
Ok thanks for listening.......Dan
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