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June 2019 – Hans Weissflog

ByRon Lindsay June 17, 2019October 11, 2024

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

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May 2019 – Stabilizing Wood

July 2019 – Summer Party

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