05-28-2008, 11:36 AM
Hmmm. Don't know why the second pic is a download... Anyway, It took three of us to run the blank through the bandsaw and three of us to mount it on the lathe. Ed, the artist who turned this, had to re gear his lathe. The forces on the spindle were very high. He watched the spinning piece like a hawk. If it came off the lathe, it would have taken out the shop wall and anything/one between it. He had a pretty slow RPM on the lathe until he had removed a lot of weight. We had a cardboard pattern he measured against. It is truly a hand-turned piece.
Cheryl Boeckmann