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Jerry Gilman

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The goblet is made from Holly covered in Gold Leaf with Ebony Accent rings, the stem is a triple twist.

The Shell is actually a lidded box turned from English Sycamore on a Ebony Stand 8" tall.
 

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Jerry, you sure do nice work.......:eek:

Do you have a homepage or a gallery or something?

Is this just a hobby.........or an addiction......;) :D

Boy, I'd love to spend a day in your shop watching and learning, picking your brain............ make that a week :thumb: :D

Cheers!
 
Here are simple instructions to carve a twisted stem.

1- Look at figure 1 (end view of the stem). Draw cross hairs on both ends
of the stem, then continue the cross hairs down the length of the stem
until you connect to the other ends cross hairs.

2- Measure the diameter of the stem (I used 3/8 inches in the drawing,
but it can be any diameter). Now using that measurement, devide
the length of the stem in equal sections of the same measurement.
See Step 2 in the drawing.

3- With the long lines drawn down the length of the stem and the sections
marked off around the stem, you can begin to mark the twist (bine)
lines. Look at step 3 on the drawing, the dark heavy black lines are
then drawn to connect each section in a spiral around and down the
of the entire stem.

4- The final step in laying out the markings is to draw the cut lines (drawn
in red) that lay between the 4 spirals that wrap around the entire
stems length.

5- Use either fine carbide rasps, round files or 80 grit paper wrapped
around a small drill bit, to begin to file the twists. Simply follow cutting
the red lines as you very slowly turn the stem on the lathe by hand.
You can widen the twist or bine by simply holding the file at a wider
angle to the cut line.

Take your time and cut slow, you can use finner grits as you near the
final form. Make sure to leave at least 1/2 inch at each end of the stem
uncut (no twist) so you have room to turn a tenon on each end.

I've so far been able to cut a quadtrupple open twist (center of stem
is hollow) on a 1/4 diameter stem and place another single twist 1/16
diameter inside it. "A twist within a twist"

Good Luck
 

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Very nice stuff, Jerry. That little piece of sycamore sure has some nice things going on in the figure. The spiral carving is also very nice. I was hoping your instructions would have some handy trick that made the process easy, but I see there's still a lot of skill and hard work involved. (Man, that rules me out on most things, since I'm lacking both.) ;)

Great job(s), and thanks for the pics and the further explanation. :thumb:
 
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