Little big on a normal bird house ornament.Ī good length for the minimalist bird is about 1-1/4”. A 9/16” turning square will be about 3/100” larger corner to corner than Oh, and an aside about size: If you’ve not done any small scale work, then you may be more comfortable Turning square fits and find (in the drill sizing gauge?) or make (drill a hole After you’ve done this once you can check to see what size hole the Mount the collet in the chuck and tighten the chuck just until resistance isīecause the stock can spring it open a bit. (3/8” corner to corner is about 3/100” oversize for 1/2”) and size your stock to But it doesn’t matter in the end if you cut your stock a little oversize The collets that came with my Beall collet chuck (bought ages ago) areĬollets bought through an Industrial Supplier are often labeled for the middle Some are labeled for the maximum diameter the collet will take. Mount your collet chuck on the lathe so that you can mount Intervals and only have to locate the eyes top center. However, with a square base you can clamp the bird in a vise at 90° The second eye, however, must be diametrically opposite the firstĮye-which you can’t see at this scale. Locate the first eye most anywhere as long as it’s in the middle of the head. It made locating the eyes, legs, beak and wings much easier. It was fortuitous that I started with square stock because Three methods of rounding over square stock to fit in a collet chuck. It’s easier to cut a short length of a turning square (say 2-1/2”) and onlyīecause it’s easier to line up the cutting/turning pattern to a square edge. Particularly if your headstock spindle is drilled out larger than 1/2” like the Minimalist birds you can round the corners of a long square all at once, Take a couple of strokes on each corner and test the fit. Utility knife as shown in the middle of the photo. Sizing gauge, the dowel plate, or your collet to check the size of the method IĮnded up liking best which was scraping the corners of the turning square with a You can use the drill sizing gauge in the same way as the dowel sizing To the left of the sizing plate is a drill sizing gauge. Try to keep the stock vertical and centered. The square centered if you chamfer the corners with a knife first. You can use a mallet to tap the turning square through the hole to remove More than a plate of steel with three holes drilled in it. Is a dowel sizing plate (it came with a Bealle threading kit) which is little Conveniently a 3/8” square is a little oversize to fit in a 1/2” collet.įigure #1 is my somewhat messy photo showing three different methods of nicking Just about as quick, less fussy, and seems to me to hold better.ģ/8” is a good size for mini-birds. Little oversize and then reducing the corners equally until the stock fits is Turning stock to a square that fits in one of the collets is quicker than To the chuck, because it doesn’t chew on my fingers the way #1 jaws do. I like to use a collet chuck when turning small and close Of course, along the way I made or modified a few tools.
So, I started generating patterns using a profile picture of a real bird Tended to look like robins with a different bird’s dress on. Lastly (so far), I noticed that my other bi-colored birds So, I tried cutting out a cherry insert and matching recess on a scroll This did yield a bird with a red breast but the red on real robinsĭoesn’t make a straight line from neck to tail. I think the first one was supposed to be a robin where I glued someĬherry to a length of walnut to make a bi-colored turning square. Match the body diameter and cutting the wings out with a scroll saw.Īfter that I tried to make bi-colored birds. I then tried shaping wing stock on the lathe by drilling a core out to Hand bending veneer neither worked well nor looked good. I found that I could cut a slot in the bird’s head and glue
I thought it would look better with eyes that were black and convex Rabbit hole that I have yet to really climb out of. Then I thought that I’d try to make the birds more Separately and abrasively shape the tail after turning. It turned out to be fairly simple to turn a minimalist mini-bird-I didn’tĮven need to do any eccentric mounting as long as I was willing to turn the beak This year I decided to pursue the idea seriously. Wasn’t happy about the idea of turning a wood birdhouse and plopping a plasticīe a way to turn one but didn’t think of a way. Lots of turners make birdhouse ornaments. Main photo: A cardinal of redheart, yellowheart, and blackwood. This article was published in the October 2018 edition of I'll only use the list for that purpose, and I'll mail blind cc so your address Articles you would like to be notified when I post a new
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