Easter Eggs
I made a bottle stopper out of Tulipwood.
My wife liked it and suggested I make some Easter eggs for our two nephews who are also God-children. Never to turn down an authorized trip to the shop, I agreed. First was to get some Tulipwood and cut roughly to length.
Then I chucked it up…
...turned a tenon…
...reversed it…
...roughed the egg shape…
...turned off the end…
...and asked The Boss if the egg in an "egg cup" was acceptable. Well, no.
I didn't know how to proceed from there. I put it out and a fellow Jock (I am terribly sorry I forgot who, 'cause I'd love to credit him) linked me to a site with some rather detailed instructions.
I got a chunk of Southern Yellow Pine…
...and turned a jam chuck.
Here it is toward the end of the process. (I missed the pictures of doing the tenon end removal)
A couple of shots of the finished eggs.
I made a bottle stopper out of Tulipwood.
My wife liked it and suggested I make some Easter eggs for our two nephews who are also God-children. Never to turn down an authorized trip to the shop, I agreed. First was to get some Tulipwood and cut roughly to length.
Then I chucked it up…
...turned a tenon…
...reversed it…
...roughed the egg shape…
...turned off the end…
...and asked The Boss if the egg in an "egg cup" was acceptable. Well, no.
I didn't know how to proceed from there. I put it out and a fellow Jock (I am terribly sorry I forgot who, 'cause I'd love to credit him) linked me to a site with some rather detailed instructions.
I got a chunk of Southern Yellow Pine…
...and turned a jam chuck.
Here it is toward the end of the process. (I missed the pictures of doing the tenon end removal)
A couple of shots of the finished eggs.