October 2019 – Cindy Drozda – Channel Islands Woodturners

: Remote televised demo with Cindy Drozda in Colorado

: Her lathe

: Some of the forms she is known for

: The tools she sent and will be using in demo

: Showing how to best orient burl

: The primary eye side on tall vessel

: The other eye side

: Other projects with this technique

: Tool handles

: The layout

: Her handout has the details

: She uses dry wood. Her drying chamber.

: Hold each end with small Steb centers

: Cut on main center to cut reference tenons on each end

: Offset for a 60 deg twist

: Cut straight across down to the tenon on each end

: Check for straight with ruler

: Cut down to tenon marked with black

: Two sides cut

: The blue is the points we don’t want to get too close to

: This shows the bevel reveal she shoots for

: Recut the tenons for 4-jaw chuck and cut bevel down to round and part off lid

: Hollowing with “40-40” grind gouge (40 deg edge and 40 deg sweep back)

: Finish hollowing with special negative rake side and end scraper

: Cut down lid for inside fit to base

: Tight but not too tight

: Cut base using tailstock

: Tape lid and finish base

: Negative rake round scraper for inside of lid

: Specially ground scraper for shaping jam chuck

: Finish shaping lid with neg rake scraper on jam chuck

: Sand sides with random orbital hand sander (with lid attached here)

: To prepare a burl for the bandsaw, level and wedge the disk screwed to burl

: First cut a flat on side using disk as base

: Then cut parallel to disk

: Then cut around disk – done

: To drive with spur, cut recess with Forstner bit

: For signature on base use vibrating engraver tool

: Seal end grain first with CA glue then fill with gold paste stick

: She will send box for us to keep

: Ready for wood raffle