I have made a set of candle light means this year's Christmas ornament job. The stands are wood turned segmented pieces. I made them from a maple tree I cut up from my father-in-law's front yard. I have been wishing to do segmented turning where I angle the table saw blade while cutting the sectors to offer an angled pattern to the segments. I included a strip of purple heart wood to the rings as I glued them together to attempt and make twisting strips that add the sides of the stands trying to make them look a little bit like sweet walking sticks.
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2:49 (maple milling).
3:19 (making sectors).
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Merry Christmas and have a great safe new year Frank. Thank you for the inspiring content you put out.
One of my favorite parts of Christmas is your ornament video, thank you for all the amazing work and inspiration! And a Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!
Merry Christmas Frank, thank you as always for the videos.
Hi Frank, I love your work. I had a similar project I had in mind, but I haven’t started yet because of the alignment problem you mentioned. I want to make large candy canes out of paduk and maple, with a torus at the top to twist the “cane”. Ill try all one color first… anyway, try making the “stripe” piece a little thicker than the maine piece and you will create a “gear effect” with each layer. Then you can align each layer with a pin in your plywood clamping blocks. Setup will take time, but glue up should be faster… the only other thing could be using your lathe for glueup, and putting a chuck on each end and turning the index a specific turn to make the offset the same with each layer
Have you thought about using either the CNC or a jig on the drill press to put 2 or even 3 holes in the rings, close enough to the center to not show in the final turning, but then you could stack the rings on dowels that would clock the rings to each other and align the pattern. I would’ve said to leave one purpleheart segment proud of the top of the ring by say 1/8″ so they interlock, but with the angled cuts you might end up with a tiny void in each one. Merry Christmas to you and yours Frank, thanks for another year of entertaining and inspiring videos.
Terrific candle stands Frank! Happy Holidays to you & your family! 🌲🌲💥💥
Really nice, Frank. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family.
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They looks great, thanks for the video. I have previously made wooden candlesticks and one of them caught fire when the candle burnt down. I fixed this by placing some aluminium foil in the candle hole. Wishing you and your family a great Christmas.
Hi Frank. Merry Christmas to you and your family! Because the candle holder is different diameters at different points along the length, the alignment is super critical. Maybe you could mill a spiral slot with the CNC spindle and stuff the slot with contrasting wood. A bonus is, it may be an opportunity to add a CNC rotary chuck to your tool inventory! 🙂
Nice work as usual Frank! Happy Holidays!
I wish my projects that didn’t turn out like I wanted looked as good as yours! Thank you for all you’ve shared this year, it’s always a joy to watch what you are marking. Can’t wait to see what 2024 brings!
Merry Christmas, Frank, and happy holidays! Thank you for the video. Your Christmas specials are always a treat ✨
Here is an idea for aligning the slices inside a candle stand or any turned object: (1) Turn the solid workpiece using one type of tree. (2) Slice in with a band saw. Aligning a turned object for a band saw cut could be tricky, but you can use CNC to make some sacrificial fixture elements. (3) Glue the slices back together, alternating each slice with a thin panel of the second type of tree. (4) Turn the assembly again to remove the excess material. Removing some of the material on the band saw before turning is worth it. This approach should guarantee the perfect pattern alignment since the traverse lines are solid wood parts.
I always look forward to your holiday projects. In spite of not getting the strip to align perfectly, which I think is a matter of geometry and not necessarily lack of perfect disk alignment, these candle sticks still look lovely. Hope you have a lovely holiday season with your family. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful job. I’m envious!!! Well done.
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well. I really enjoy your insights from outside of the woodturning box.
Really amazing work, Frank! Beautiful candle holders! 😃
About the alignment, I can think about 2 ideas… one would be using some dots of AC glue to hold them in place while you clamp them… And the other would be brad nails, but those made from plastic (nylon, I guess), that people use on the CNC.
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
And happy holidays!
Très beau travail technique ! Bravo !
Hi, Frank, gorgeous pieces as always. Maybe someone else has said this already, but for the alignment of the strips, you were attempting a literally impossible task.
In order for the segments to line up after turning away an arbitrary amount of the material, the internal shape would need to have a twist to it, like, say, a piece of rotini pasta. Such a shape is a continuous curve, not made up of planar polygonal segments. So by making it out of planar segments, and aligning them at the outer diameter, you were guaranteeing that they wouldn’t align at any inner (turned) diameter. This is because the inside will always end up having a different twist than the outside.
I like the idea of staggering the pieces so that they just don’t need to line up with each other.
Nice Job as always Frank👌wish you and yours also merry christmas 🌲 and a happy new Year🍀
The best of wishes for you and your family! Thank you for all the wonderful projects you share!