Woodturning a Segmented Vase from Firewood

hello everybody this project I'm using another one of those logs that I picked up from a firewood pile about ten years ago most of this video is at five times normal speed I made kind of a sloppy cut with that chainsaw I think the blades were a little dull so I'm just flattening out the surface here on the last walnut bowl that I made the one with the mystery metal I received a lot of comments regarding the amount of waste that was occurring because I didn't core it out I guess people just didn't like to go wasted walnuts so that inspired me to try and be a little bit more thrifty with this next log I don't have coin tools so I decided to use my bandsaw to mill this log down into about one inch thick boards [Applause] [Music] and it worked out well I ripped them down to about one and a half inches wide which is about the width that I like to use when I'm making segmented balls and so on had a lot of rippin to do obviously I didn't want to show you the whole process but you get the idea here not a lot of waste and some really nice product 28 2 foot long boards and this chart really simplifies the process of planning like if I want to if I want a ring that is 3 inches I'm sorry 6 inches in diameter then I need to know how long each individual segment should be to equal the proper circumference of that circle and it's just sitting there right in front of you and when you do it this way obviously there's computer programs for this but this is pretty simple and here I'm just switching from a a ripping blade to a cross cutting blade and this is my 16 segment sled and I've got it pretty fine-tuned so there's hardly any variance at all the glue-ups go nicely I had 11 wings to make but I'm not going to show all of those in the video that would get kind of blind I think so I'll just show one complete ring with the glue up and you'll get the idea [Applause] so this is ring number one which will sit on top of the the solid base and that actually is ring number two I'll show you a ring number one again in a minute but doing the test fit on this it was right on the money didn't have to adjust anything like I said this that crosscut sled with the angles is is pretty accurate so the glue-ups done I just used a band clamp to to pull everything together than I tapping everything down to make it as level as possible and there's ring number one and for some reason I had some kind of variance there that caused the angles to be bad I suspect that didn't hold the board tight up against the the guide boards as I slid it forward to make the cut but anyways you just do half a circle at a time or half a ring at a time and glue them together using a couple of doubles to separate them and correct angle with a sander afterwards and glue it back together it'll be a little bit oval but not bad and there is all 17r I'm sorry there's all 11 rings all glued up sitting on top of the base and here I'm just using the bullseye center finder to find the proper place to mount the faceplate so I can turn out the bottom of the vase mounting the faceplate onto the lathe I realized that I hadn't made my head made the wood round yet so I took it over to the bandsaw took care of that and then remounted it once I've got the basic shape done I cut the mortise on the very bottom and that's for mounting the one-way chuck in expansion mode so that I can flip this thing around and start working on the top side and what I have to do here is flatten that top out so they can receive the the first ring and I also Bowl out the bottom a little bit once I have it close to flat I'll take a sandpaper board and flatten it out real nice I'll check that with the with the board itself just to make sure it's perfectly flat so I can put on the ring and there's ring number one I smile Center that as best as possible and then use the tailstock of the leave to apply pressure let that dry for a few hours and then I'm ready for the next steps [Music] for this ring in each subsequent ring I've got to flatten out the surface to receive the next ring I've got to work on the inside of the base because as I add rings I just won't have access to to the lower rings and also a work on the exterior some just get it to a basic roundness and that's more for stability than anything else at this point [Applause] here's where I start working on the interior [Music] I don't currently have the tools in my inventory to to hollow out a vessel as deep as this one's going to be [Applause] so I'll just do it as I stack on layers and works out well and here I'm just basically making the shape a little bit more to where I want it as well as making the wobble go away making it round again for stability because as I add on rings I want this I don't want any weight fluctuation I don't want any wobble whatsoever I want it to be as stable as possible because I'm not using tail stock not until the very end [Applause] [Applause] I didn't record any video of the constant sharpening that I did of this gouge throughout the process of this build but I kept it very sharp as you can tell by the shavings adding ring number three and again it's the same process for each ring I'm not going to go through each step-by-step so I'll speed through the buildup of the Rings showing some detail on occasion [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's a combination of push and pull cuts being very gentle as I go again I don't want to cause a check by being clumsy and cause this to fly off the lathe [Music] and here I'm just showing the Rings as they get stacked up all the different steps I talked about have been done interiors looking great nice and smooth and that's wearing number nine that I'm working on right now well the bass starts to flare out at the top so I'm giving this a little bit more attention on the outside but again it's just a rough cut or I should say a rough shape it's a nice smooth sharp cut then here I slowed it down to real-time this is how long it actually took how slow and deliberate I was being I just did not want to check at this point the GAO just super-sharp those shavings are very very fine just this thinnest threads some of them and finally ring number 11 and that means this vase is extended 12 inches up from the base which is why I'm so concerned about stability I did double check that Chuck to make sure it was tight throughout the process every time I added a ring I made sure that truck was tight [Music] [Music] [Music] and once I had the interior looking good I pulled up the tailstock and started on the exterior now I could make some shavings with a lot more confidence that that vase wasn't going to fly off the shark it's very satisfying seeing those those shavings come off like that it's hard to describe [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] there was actually very little sanding I had to do but I started that 100 and worked up to 500 grit and then I applied Danish oil according to the instructions on the cam three coats [Music] while not sure is a pretty wood I did coke the very bottom of the inside of the vase as well when I took it off the Chuck I poured some in and sloshed it around made sure it was completely coated and there's the finished product it took about a week a lot of glue drying time involved in that week from old piece of firewood to milled lumber to what I think is a real pretty vase thank you I appreciate your time and watching this so much please subscribe more to come Semper Fi

Channel: R Humphrey

Views: 1,288,002

Rating: 4.7303691 out of 5

Keywords: Woodturning, lathe, Walnut, Segmented, turning, firewood, repurpose, handcrafted, vase, bowl, woodworking, wood, wood shop, make, r humphrey, pretty, beautiful

Id: syc9haoepis

Length: 24min 10sec (1450 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 25 2018