Hey Curtis that looks like an extremely good idea. Gets you away from the head stock so you can turn or mill worry free. great idea. Sorry about the glue lol. Kind Regards,
Timothy J. Ziegler Ziegler WoodWork & Specialty 14171 160th Ave. Foreston MN 56330 320-294-5798 shop 320-630-2243 cell On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 10:08 PM 'Curt George' via Legacy Ornamental Mills < legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I came up with a new idea for my bone turning. > I used an 1/4" x4" screw as my center to hold the bone together while > drying. > > ONE small problem happened. (I know you guys can guess what went wrong.) > Even though I waxed the screw before I set the Epoxy glue. the screw is > firmly stuck inside my bone blank. ;-( > > So since I can not remove the screw, I decided to use the screw in as my > mounting for the Legacy. > I cut an alum. square and tapped the center 1/4-20 (so I could screw the > bone onto the alum.) and then I added a Legacy hub to the alum. so I could > mount it onto my Legacy. > > I am rather pleased with this jig. so far. I was able to turn the bone and > it open up's some very neat new idea on what I can make on both the Legacy > and Shop Smith. > > Now this is not a new idea for me, I already have made jigs to hole 5/16" > and 3/8" shafts so I could make wine stoppers and other utensils. on my > lathe. but for some reason, I never thought of making a 1/4" one. > > As far as the bone turning goes. I'm not sure if I should rope it or not? > But for the time being, I think I will leave it the way it is. > > Here are some photo's of my jig and turning. > > Please let me know what you think. > > C.A.G. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/14611711.2899736.1609042088438%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/14611711.2899736.1609042088438%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/CAMBiJLGmUhaaCbJYjT2JC2FW29b13SmH-1qZqn-yabGB3KtSKA%40mail.gmail.com.
