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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
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