October 2019 – Cindy Drozda

ByRon Lindsay October 26, 2019October 11, 2024

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

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