June 2019 – Hans Weissflog – Channel Islands Woodturners

: Al G. introducing Hans Weissflog from Germany

: A sampling of Hans’ work

: Each side is single block of wood

: Standing Oval Box

: Standing Oval Box

: Demonstrator Hans Weissflog will do three projects – detailed plans are available on our website under Members tab

: First project is lattice-top lidded box – custom chuck

: Showing shape of custom scraper 0.9 mm wide

: Custom scraper for cutting grooves

: Find the center hole of offset disk with pin

: Cut grooves to shallow uniform depth – extend lattice to entire top surface

: Flip over, hollow, and cut lattice through to opposing side

: Cut through just enough to reveal opposite lattice

: Sand and clean out the lattices – the tedious part

: Preparing a jam chuck

: Cut off the temporary tenon

: Clean up the bottom using jam chuck

: Finished lattice-top box

: Second project is Standing Oval Box – Form 60 mm spherical shape

: Use template to assure correct shape

: Create jam chuck to hold spherical blank – note the inverted gouge useful when hollowing end grain

: Blank in jam chuck

: Hollow out according to the plan

: Here is where we are going

: Now the top in contrasting wood – prepare the tenon and reverse

: Cut the mating surface

: Use template to assure correct shape

: Reverse on jam chuck

: and shape to match spherical template

: Now we have a spherical box – next flatten to oval shape

: Place in jam chuck to hold the sphere – rotated 90 deg

: Cut down to predetermined depth

: Cut down to shape of oval template

: Flatten bottom using jam chuck

: Third and final project is Drunken Box or Twisted Cone – Make a spherical box, rotate 90 deg, and cut cone on opposing sides

: Cut hemisphere and check with template

: Prepare opposite half

: Cut cone to exact marks – must be exactly square

: Flip over – but how to hold?

: Hans made a purpose-made compression chuck

: Cut the opposite side cone

: Rotate the halves 90 deg to form the drunken shape

: Drunken Box

: Hans concluded demo with 45 min slide show of his and son’s work

: Masur Birch and Blackwood Standing Oval Box

: Other twisted shapes

: Lots of African Blackwood, Cocobolo, Masur Birch, and Boxwood

: Cocobolo

: His giant stash of Blackwood

: Son Jakob Weissflog

: Some of Jakob’s work

: More …

: And more