• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Maple Platter

selectortone

selectortone

Sapling
Joined
Jan 26, 2017
Messages
288
Reaction score
0
Location
Sunny Bournemouth by the Sea
Prezzie for my daughter. Just under 14" across. Made from Hampshire maple. I had to fix one crack but you need to look for it now. It was a bit of a b*gger to turn as the darker bits were quite soft and the rest was rock hard. It has lots of figure - what we guitar builders call 'flame', what turners call 'ripple'. Shame it was cloudy today, it looks great in sunshine.

platter1.jpg


platter2.jpg
 
Thanks guys!

Andyp":ujywcv7d said:
Very smart Terry. Is that foot ring all you used to hold it in the chuck or has it been reduced?
Click to expand...

Yes, it has a reverse dovetail that I expanded the chuck into. Of course, I was risking cracking the foot off but I went gently, both with the mounting and the turning. The recess is a couple of mm deeper than the outside too so it's expanding into the mass of the bowl rather than just the foot. I have done this with large platters in the past - I have some home made cole jaws but they are too small to accommodate anything over 12". Finishing the foot when you do the outside is much quicker than faffing about with jam chucks to finish the foot, but obviously I wouldn't recommend it for a deeper bowl because of the mass. That would be quite scary if you got a catch. You can just about get away with it with a shallow piece and a hard wood like maple.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top