[modeleng] Re: How's it done
- From: "Tim Rickard" <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:06:03 +0000
How about a shellac chuck as used in clock and jewellry making? Bascially
you embed the end of the job in shellac or high melting point wax. When
you've finished turning you melt or dissolve the wax to free the job. It'd
explain why the base is as found
>From: John Walford <jwme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [modeleng] How's it done
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:36:37 +0000
>
>I like to think I'm fairly good at working out how things are done, but a
>simple aluminium vase from Thailand has me beat. All the surfaces are
>tapered apart from the indented base which has a cast pattern. it's about
>300mm tall, tapers in from the base and flares out again at the top. The
>turning is easy, but how the H*** did they hold it.
>
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>John Walford
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