Captured Ring Baby Rattle

Kate informed me that our friend, who is expecting in September, had her water break today. Now she's expecting much sooner. LOL.

I spent some time today at the lathe and ended up with this captured ring baby rattle.

It's butternut wood, sanded to 220, and buffed on the Beall Buffing system. The rings were interesting to buff, after a little monkeying around, I found a great system of buffing them and it went pretty quickly. No other finish is applied. In person, it's really smooth and shiny. The camera wasn't feeling like capturing the essence of the piece and this is the best photo I could get without digging out the SLR.

Dan

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Date: Wed August 1, 2007
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Junior Adams

that is nice!! do you have a captive ring tool??

#1 Wed August 1, 2007 3:16am

WinsorWoods

ByGeorge: Thanks Man. That means alot coming from you. I've seen your work in the gallery and I am blown away by it. Doing all those Wizzard wands the other week really helped all my spindle work. It was pretty straight forward to complete.

Junior: Affirmative on the captured ring tool. I have a Pinnacle one but they are pretty easy to make if you have some old flat steel laying around. You'd just drill a hole in the metal the same size as you want for the thickness of your ring. Then cut the metal away around the hole to the desired profile of the tool. If I had it to do all over again, I'd go with the Sorby tool that has the different attachment tips for different sized rings. In fact, I have a Sorby Hollowing tool that could accept a homemade attachment for different sized rings......Hmmmm....
Dan

#2 Wed August 1, 2007 4:43am

Mike Baber

Nice work Dan, looks great to me. Makes me want to go out to my lathe and give that a try. Thumbs Up!

Wizzy

#3 Wed August 1, 2007 11:03am

BAM

Very nice. I do have a question though (been wondering this for awhile now),are the buffing compounds food safe?

#4 Wed August 1, 2007 1:53pm

WinsorWoods

Chakajo: Thanks man. There are some rough spots on some of the rings. I think next time it will be easier to them smoothed up by starting with a larger diameter blank. That way I can increase the difference between the inner diameter of the ring and the diamter of the spindle that the rings are on. That will give me more room to work with. It'll also allow the edges of the buffs to get in there a bit better.

Wizzy: Thanks and good luck!

BAM: I think the critical step is making sure that you have good coverage on your carnuba wax (third buff) Carnuba wax is incredibly hard and the last buffing stage uses the friction of the buffs, to melt a coat of wax onto your piece. Making sure you have complete coverage with the wax will encapsulate anything underneath from previous finishing steps. While I don't think you'd want to cut a chunk off of the Tripoli or White Diamond bar and eat it, I've seen many people claim that buffing is "Food Safe" but I haven't actually done the reasearch myself. I wouldn't hesitate eating from a bowl that had been buffed. That's just me though.

ByGeorge: Good luck with that tool. Let me know if you need a closeup of the grind on my Captured Ring tool. I'd be happy to snap a quick one and post it for you.

Dan

#5 Wed August 1, 2007 9:39pm