Hi, Alan Stratton from As Wood Turns (www.AsWoodTurns.com) I have seen someone demonstrate turning a
Roman canteen and it has been on my list for quite a while.
But, as I study the Roman canteen, I don't have much use for a wood canteen.
I actually like modern canteen that hold water securely and do a great job.
But, still the form is a valid turning form.
The model for this little vase is a Roman canteen.
However, I don't think you need to go all the same amount of work of a Roman canteen,
because you can use a bottom and use a spout that actually turns it into a nice vase.
Instead of a plain center on each side, I used the Infinite Axis Chuck to make a totally
unique center medallion for both sides.
By the way, the hat.
I got this last weekend from the Southern Utah Woodturners.
I spent the weekend demonstrating the infinite axis chuck with them.
Great group.
Thank you so much for taking great care of me.
And they gave me this hat.
Nice hat.
They wanted me to wear it while I'm turning.
But, sorry guys, I cannot wear the hat while I'm turning because I wear my face shield.
Let's make this nice vase.
I found a block of walnut about 6"x6"x2", placed masking tape so I can see my markings
and marked center.
Then I trimmed off the corners a little before applying double stick tape and mounting it
to a wood faceplate with live center pressure.
Now, I'm rounding it off but only to square the circumference to the faces for now.
Now, I'm applying masking tape to the edge so that I can easily mark the exact center
of the wood.
This is where I will need to drill a hole for the neck.
But before I do anything too rash, I'm marking for an expansion mortise on the face.
This will be for my small shark jaws.
Then I applied new tape and marked the exact middle of the wood through the center mark.
Then continued this mark across the line on the circumference.
I've lined up a small drill bit true to the line I drew on the face of the wood.
I want my 1" hole to be exactly perpendicular to the tangent at this point.
This hole will be for the neck of my vase.
Now, I've mounted the wood to my small shark jaws using the mortise I drilled earlier.
My first task now is to mark and cut another expansion mount on this surface.
I want to be able to flip the wood to either surface.
Now I can round over the corner of the blank first with my gouge then using a sheer scrape
with the gouge.
I'm flipping it over to the other side for the same thing – rounding over the corner.
Technically maybe I did not need the second mortise but it does make it easier to clean
up the side without worrying about hitting the chuck jaws.
I'm doing my best to make the curve symmetrical.
I'll get it close.
I see a crack in the wood and stop to apply some CA glue.
Then let it dry.
I'm taking a moment now to drill out the center leaving a lip in the mortise.
I'm drilling half way from each side.
I used my hollowing setup to hollow the vase from both sides.
Unfortunately, my camera operator neglected to start the camera.
Oh well.
Not much to see when I'm hollowing.
Should I fire him?
For the medallions, I'm first applying double stick tape to one side of hazelnut and mounting
it to a work platform.
I like hazelnut because if you burn it a little it has a nice roasted smell.
I'm smoothing and sanding what will be the back side of the medallion.
The only thing that takes a little time is fitting a tenon to the hole in the side of
the vase.
Once it fits, I'm mounting another work platform to my chuck and again applying double
stick tape.
Then to transfer the medallion as concentric as possible, I'm pressing the first work
platform while aligning it with the live center pressing into the mounting nut of the work
platform.
It gets me close but not perfectly.
After this, I can level the surface of the medallion and sand it for the background.
This is easy now but would be difficult after I cut in the features.
Now I can cut in the first feature.
In these medallions, I'm trying several different tools to see what works and what
works best.
My baseline is a small gouge then also trying a mini round nose scraper, a spear point scraper,
a mini skew, a small skew, and a box scraper.
Now for the second feature.
All tools seem to work fine.
Generally they work best with the speed as high as is safe and very light touches.
Now the third feature.
Each time, I make sure I have cinched up the retaining ring on the chuck.
I make sure with my large channel lock pliers.
Now a fourth feature.
When the feature cuts completely into the surface, I can sand with the lathe running
at moderate speed.
Since the features are small I can sand with 180, 220, and 320 grit.
When the feature does not cut completely into the surface, I have to sand with the lathe
off.
How about a fifth feature.
When I mess up by not focusing enough on tool control, I enlarge and "redesign" the
feature.
After all, no one yet knows what it is supposed to look like.
When all features are finished, I'm returning the work platform to my chuck for final sanding
and finish with brushing lacquer.
Repeat again for another medallion for the other side.
Now for the neck of the vase.
Again, I'm using hazelnut from last year's pruning.
It's dry now.
Since I have to fit it to the top hole in the vase body and I want to test fit it before
finishing it on the lathe, I have to adjust my plan.
I've first rounded the wood, cut a tenon and mounted it into my chuck.
Now I want to shape the tenon which will also be the neck.
Once the tenon fits, I'm tapering the neck out.
Once it fits, I'm reducing a portion of the wood to a smaller tenon that I will cut
off later.
Then part off what I need.
Now it's mounted to the long nose jaws for drilling down to just above the chuck jaws,
final shaping and sanding.
For a base, I'm using a bit of bark edge from the hazelnut branch with the top and
bottom and cut ends sanded.
All in all, this is a nice project.
It has the unusual look of a flattened vase, nice walnut looks with hazelnut accent.
I like it a lot better than a Roman canteen.
Plus, a bonus when I scorch hazelnut and can smell the roast.
That's all for this vase.
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I am Alan Stratton from As Wood Turns dot com.
Every week I make a new woodturning video.
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