Segmented Woodturning a Vase out of 1025 Piece of Wood!!! -- European Decanter

what's up everybody my name is Justin Fischetti and today I'm gonna show you how to make this European decanter here we go I start off by designing the piece I like to pull inspiration from places around me in this case I got my inspiration from the Greek pottery exhibit in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston this will be a design for the main feature ring and this is the design of the overall decanter I'll be referencing this throughout the video to help explain which parts I'm working on first up are the body rings these are gonna be made out of catalogs these are what make up the majority of the decanter the first step is to get all the pieces down to the correct dimensions then I can take them over to the table saw and cut angles on each side of each piece this will allow them to fit into a ring much like slices of pizza fit into a pizza pie with all the pieces cut for all of the body rings I can lay them out into rings and begin gluing them here you can see how the angles make them form into a ring the angles did not come out exactly right so I'm using dowels in between the two halves when I clamp the ring in order to allow all the other joints to be tight I'll clean up this interface later on next up is the main feature this ring will be made out of cherry and catalogs so first thing I'm going to do is break down the material this ring is made by gluing up strips of Cadillacs and cherry into different boards each board has a different pattern and then when combined they result in the main feature ring so the first step is to glue up some of these boards I'm using a bunch of spring clamps for this glue up which is ideal because it allows me to perfectly align the top and bottom of these two pieces this is going to be critical for making a tight pattern all the parts can be run through the planer to get them to the final dimension when adding this layer on it's critically important that I get this joint right here lined up exactly with this joint otherwise the pattern is going to look off so now to make sure this happens I'm spreading regular wood glue on the surfaces like I normally would and then I'm going to use CA glue to secure the piece exactly where I want it once I get it lined up this will stop slipping from happening when I apply clamps and then a little bit of cleaner [Music] with one face clean I can run it through the planer to get the other face parallel here the pattern is almost done and it can be clearly seen how all of the pieces are stacked together the powder is fully glued up so I'm going to square off this block with the table saw so I can bring it over to the jointer and make these two faces parallel from there I'll be able to cut the segment's out of this long piece and make them into a ring I can then cut off the end to reveal the pattern so the pattern is fully glued up and what kind of reminds me of a sausage so now I'm going to take slices of it and then I will put angles on those slices so that they can form into a ring [Music] with the pattern sliced up I can now take each piece and cut angles on them so that they will fit into a ring to form the main feature ring I just did a test fit up with all the spacer pieces and all the joints are looking perfect so now I can move on to an actual glue [Music] with the main feature ring done I can move on to the triangular spikes this pattern was inspired by a pattern that appears a lot in Greek pottery with this piece I really wanted to allow history to guide me in how to design the part the construction of the pattern starts by gluing together pieces of maple and catalogs so to make this pattern it's easier to glue up two pieces of wood and then cut angles on it to form the triangles then trying to glue up pieces that are already at angles so now that I have the glued up block I can make cuts like this and then I cut here like this then another cut here like this then I cut here like this and now you can see the triangle shape [Music] I just completed an angle cut and that's the only angle cut I need to make now I can turn this on its side and add in two 90-degree cuts and you can begin to see the pattern this pattern will be paired with a reciprocal one and that will give the spikes with the strips all squared up I can now cut them into pieces two of these pieces will be used to make a single segment the two rings with this pattern are significantly different inside so the pieces that make them up are also very different with those strips cut up now I can glue two of them together to form what will be the final segment you can see how the triangle pattern will come together and next what I will do is cut angles like this on the piece so that it can form into a ring with the glue dry I can go back over to the table saw to cut the angles on the pieces I'm using a toggle clamp on a table saw sled that will hold the parts at exactly the right angle committed ly this is how I should have cut the angles on the main feature ring [Music] and with all the angles cut I can glue all the segments into a ring in order to make this zig-zag pattern I'm gonna make the segments have horizontal stripes and then put vertical filler pieces between them during glue up so you can see that this will be one segment with a small horizontal maple piece and a thick horizontal cherry piece then when I glued to glue up the ring I will add in vertical maple pieces to create this exact pattern and now I can cut the pieces out notice how I'm using a piece of tape as the stop block I find this is a really accurate way to cut the segments to the correct length I'm using it here also to cut the accent pieces that will go between each of the segments to create the zigzag pattern and with all the pieces cut I can glue them up I made sure to cut the vertical accent pieces taller than the segment's so that those are what gets sanded down instead of the segments this will make for a more consistent pattern sometimes the angles don't come out exactly perfect so what I like to do is glue the Rings into two halves and then take them over the table saw and cut a straight edge on both sides of the Ring this allows for a perfect joint the two halves then can be glued up either using a hose clamp or a traditional clamp that is perpendicular to the cut edge I can then take all the Rings over to the dis Center that I have mounted on my lathe and sand the faces flat I'm only sanding one face of the Rings flat if I were to try to do two faces there's no guarantee the two faces would be parallel which would mess up the shape of the decanter I like to use accent rings between multiple feature rings as I find it helps to separate them and give their own money the accent rings on this piece are just Cadillacs and maple glued together they really help to distinguish and separate multiple rings with all the rings done I can now make the base out of solid catalogs I didn't have a piece big enough so I'm gluing up multiple pieces I also glued on pine strips because the pieces of the bottom were not long enough to run through the planer I can then cut it into a circle with it all cut out I can mount it to a lathe and true-up this face I can then take the first body ring and add some glue to it and mount it on to the base I'm using the tail stock for clamping force as I mentioned earlier I now true-up this face to make it parallel to the face I send it on the disc sander now I can add the captured rectangles this is out in the same manner as the first body rim standing across the diameter ensures a parallel face I can now move on to mounting the main feature ring to do this I first hot glue it to a piece of plywood that has concentric circles so it tells me where exactly it needs to be I then use the tail stock as a locating pin and clamp it to the already assembled parts and with about five rings assembled I can begin shaping the outside to how I like it I like to wait to shape the outside until I have a couple rings added so that I kind of have a feel for where I need to take away material [Music] and once again I can't rip the face of the main feature ring so I can add on the next ring with the outside shape be game to be defined I can now turn down the inside and this process of adding rings continues now with a couple more rings at it I can begin to define the outside shape even more [Music] you can begin to see the triangle pattern taking shape here [Music] [Music] [Music] as the decanter begins to grow longer and longer I begin using a steady rest that I made out of some scrap plywood it's designed just like others that are on the market today but this design has some fundamental flaws in order to effectively dampen any vibrations that are caused by turning with the steady rest the wheels have to be engaged with a certain amount of pressure the problem with this is it's almost impossible to get the pressure on each of the wheels the exact same which leads to a deflection of the workpiece this is an absolute disaster because it means that the part that you're turning with the steady rest engaged is not concentric with the part that is turned without the steady rest this can lead to an entire failure of a part this is a fundamental flaw of any steady rest that has independently actuated wheels I decided that I want to address this issue so I've come up with something really cool I'm not ready to announce it quite yet but if you click on the link in the description or in the pop-out banner in the top right corner of your screen you can sign up to be the first to know about this awesome new solution I've come up with but I'm going to be announcing soon I'm really excited about this and I think that any woodturner will really love this idea and now I can finish off the decanter with a bit of sanding and some finish [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you so much for watching don't forget to Like and subscribe don't forget to hit that link in the description to be the first to find out about the new steady resolution I have coming [Music]

Channel: Fiaschetti Woodworking

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Keywords: segmented woodturning, Segmented Wood Turning, Woodturning, Wood Turning, woodworking, wood working, Bowl, Segmented bowl

Id: LgCs5uSbSBQ

Length: 16min 47sec (1007 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2020