MCW Treasurer Bob Browning examines a replacement phone box constructed by George King for the The Children's Inn at NIH, at the request of Rick Sniffin, Facilities Manager at the Inn.
Stan Welborn with dyed bowl in the style of Jimmy Clewes.
Stan Welborn shows a nice walnut plate.
Dick Webster with a pair of spectacularly spalted maple bowls.
Tim Aley with a small cherry bowl.
Gary Guenther demonstrates results from using the Sorby Slicer tool to core a cherry blank to get two bowls instead of one.
Bill Autry with a gavel.
Ed Karch with one of his uniquely shaped and decorated vessels.
Our demonstrator for the evening, Barbara Dill, from Rockville, VA, just outside of Richmond.
Barbara showed us some multi-axis turning design considerations.
Barbara's points were made very clear via an excellent PowerPoint presentation.
Barbara shows an example of some of the shapes that can be obtained with multiple axes.
Some of Barbara Dill's experiments.
Barbara has categorized and classified a number of approaches and their results. In this way, results become predictable and reproducible.
Barbara uses two primary tools. For roughing she uses an old-style bowl gouge without wings.
Her workhorse tool is a steeply beveled spindle (detail?) gouge.
This kind of turning involves working on shadows, and a proper visual background is important.
An example of an arc made by turning a cove on one axis and a bead on a parallel axis.
Three ways to use multi-axis spindles as goblet stems. The cups and bases are turned separately.
Barbara has sets of mechanical calipers that are set to specific ratios. This one provides the Fibonacci numbers 3, 5, and 8.
A very interesting set of unique goblets.
Aspect ratios of the wood blanks determine the ultimate appearance.
A very funky bottle stopper.
Barbara shows how to use split turning to produce 4 unique but identical multi-axis spindles while doing all the turning on-axis. Cool!
All 4 squares have to be rotated in a consistent manner between turning sessions. Turn and rotate; turn and rotate -- turn 4 times with three rotations.
The results can be pretty amazing.
Here are some of the points Barbara wanted to emphasize.
