I watched a really neat video the other night with Barbara Dill demonstrating a multi axis turning. It is an incredible look, if a little scary. To do this you chuck up the piece so it is quite crooked and then shave some of the piece away, then you rotate the piece and do the same thing, etc. What you get, in this case, is a strange rotated piece that is no longer round. The first picture below is taken from one end. I believe you can see where I placed the chuck on 4 different axis points. In this case it is three sided because I selected points that were 120 degrees apart from each other.
The second picture shows the side view of this interesting way of turning, where each “side” twists 120 degrees from one end of the spindle to the other.
The video of Barbara Dill, is excellent and really neat to watch. You will understand why I say it is a bit scary. Notice when it is wobbling, that the cutter seems to be shaving air, because you really can’t see the piece. Of course her goblet is great and turned out much better than my little experiment, but it was neat to try and I will definitely try this again. Maybe when I get my scroll chuck.
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