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Turned Aspis Project in Progress
I disagree. The one piece of pottery showing a shield-turning (that I know of) has it spinning horizontally on a lathe like a potter's wheel. That is more do-able than the vertical lathe we were using. Then gravity is your friend. I don't know if horizontal lathe is even an option in modern times. I was lucky to find even one guy with any lathe big enough to handle the blank. Like blacksmithing, wood turners make the specialist tools they need at the time they need them. Since this was a one-off, Edric worked with what he had. With patterns and calipers, roughing out the blank before turning could be done as a preliminary step. The final turning (horizontally) would not have been much then. If the rim were added after the turning (a possibility not known to me back then) it would have been turning a giant Vermont or Michigan wood salad bowl. No biggie.
Cheryl Boeckmann
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Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Chris B - 05-27-2008, 08:45 PM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Kineas - 06-02-2008, 01:41 PM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Kineas - 06-16-2008, 01:40 PM
turned aspis - by The Spinner - 06-17-2008, 12:21 PM
print - by The Spinner - 06-17-2008, 09:27 PM
Turned Aspis project - by Paullus Scipio - 06-18-2008, 01:58 AM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Magnus - 03-12-2009, 02:27 AM
RE: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Athena Areias - 08-06-2017, 02:32 PM
RE: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Feinman - 08-14-2017, 11:37 AM

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