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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
