Seg piece

13" by 6 1/2" oak and purpleheart 109 pieces. I like to make these, just don't have all the tools yet.

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Larry Charlot

Registered: October 2005
Location: Yakima, WA
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Date: Mon November 6, 2006
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TDRice

appearently you have enough tools to get by. Nice form, joints are tight, grain is well arranged, what more do you need?

#1 Mon November 6, 2006 1:07am

Very well done, Larry. I might have to try a segmented piece some year.

#2 Mon November 6, 2006 1:35am

Larry Charlot

There are a few joints not perfect, drum sander is on the horizon.

#3 Mon November 6, 2006 1:54am

WinsorWoods

Or a Compound Mitre saw with a molding blade....I see you've been busy today. Nice work!

#4 Mon November 6, 2006 3:30am

Freddie

Nice piece has great form and good color.

#5 Mon November 6, 2006 4:12am

Grapenut

And I have trouble with jigsaw puzzles

#6 Mon November 6, 2006 5:20am

WinsorWoods

Chakajo,

Great point! I was picturing in my head that Yakima was having problems with the joints between the segment pieces instead of between the layers. It drum sander is the way to go for jointing between the layers. A smooth cut with the mitre saw will help with jointing the segment pieces within a particular layer. I guess I didn't think about his post carefully enough. My Bad.

Dan

#7 Tue November 7, 2006 1:21am

Larry Charlot

having problems between layers, I use a thin kerf 60T blade on my miter saw, being that I don't have a quality table saw and havn't made a seg sled.

#8 Tue November 7, 2006 2:34am

Freddie

Although I have a nice drum sander I rarley use it to flaten rings. I just sand small and medium rings on a disc sander and you can make one for your lathe out of plywood real easy, a 12" piece screwed to a face plate with a adhesive disk placed on it.If you have cole jaws you can place bolts in backwards and grip the ring,turn it with a gouge and a square end scraper,use a straight edge to check for flatness across the ring.I take a straight board and put two 6" PSA disks on it so they will sand each side or the ring while it is spinning slowly on the lathe. Works great. Use 80 grit, nothing courser or the glue line might show. Hope this helps. There is a picture in my gallery of a ring griped on the cole jaws this way. http://www.turnwood.net/Photopost/showphoto.php/photo/3371/sort/1/cat/500/page/1 Freddie

#9 Tue November 7, 2006 6:13am

SkyJ

I also disc sand rings on a rig made for the lathe like Freddie. The only thing diffrent is my 14" sanding disc is mounted on the vacuum chuck (which is another 14" disc with a thin rubber applied to the face) I have 2 discs, one 80 grit and one 100. I like to sand only one side and mount the ring and true up the other after its been mounted.
Drum sanders do work but can leave a bit of "snipe" unless you use sacraficial boards leading and trailing the ring,
BTW very nice piece Yak!!

#10 Tue November 7, 2006 10:23am

Larry Charlot

I have been sing the sanding disc on the lathe, maybe i'm just not patient enough.

#11 Tue November 7, 2006 3:22pm