Carving Past Center on the Rotary Jig

[James RS]

Great job, that's what I wanted to do. Do you have the Carvetight chuck or the Rock?

They said it could not be done! Time might run in reverse if one goes past the singularity at the center!

Well, I finally got it to work. With the new deep carving bits and 2.004, it is possible to carve past the center of the 2" dowel. I was able to carve the backside of the ropes by going deep between the other ropes. The carving direction reverses when carving past center. It was an interesting experiment. One thing it showed was that draft does not work on the rotary jig when you get near center. It is even worse if you go past center. Notice how the taper took out the sides of the ropes. No amount of draft would have changed that as it all collapses to the center. Very interesting.

(Note that the mpc is 2.004.)

[bergerud]

ER20M spindle. It would not matter as long as you can hold the long bit above the bit plate.

[Capt Bruce]

Good morning Bergerud and Happy New Year,

How about one more challenge for the new year. Not my carving and I do not know how to credit the creator. As far as I know this was done by hand but you seem to be up to this level . . . and since we now have the long bits in our toolboxes . . .



Thanks for all you contribute here on the Forum Dan.

[bergerud]

Wow, that is a work of art. I cannot see the CW carving that one! I had a hard enough time with the simple trefoil knot. I have often wondered, however, it the CW could save an artist a lot of time and get him started by carving the "envelope" of things like this.