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Well, had only today to work on these so had to come up with a method for the coves in a hurry.
Decided to try making a sort of "oscillating spindle sander" on the lathe to rough out the octagons. I also ground an elliptical nose scraper from an old plane iron to clean up the facets. It worked quite well.
Took me the entire day.
Turning was straight-forward. Cut the octagons on the table saw with the whole billet, then mounted on the lathe and turned the two ends.

Thanks guys for the support.

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Very well done : )
 

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Well done! I am always impressed when someone turns matching pieces on the lathe. All of my spindle projects are "one of a kind" :=)
 

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Wow! Very cool. Much better than my first set of spindles. Keep up the good work!
 

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Great job of turning, I have a similar Delta Lathe, and wish I had something like that massive Famous Lines
jointer you are showing off in the last picture. I like the Yankee inventiveness shown in your fancy scraper,
thank you for sharing.
 

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Well done duplication work. I like the way you solved the coves.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
 

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Ben,

Those are really nice looking spindles, extremely well matched, and very cleverly coved!

L/W
 
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