I've been using center-point turning now for the past year or so; my spur centers are gathering dust as I haven't done any projects that actually need them.
I've started a model of the big cannon in the Cary Grant movie "The Pride and the Passion." Here is a practice cascabel (the knob at the breech of a muzzle-loading cannon) from a cocobolo scrap.
Here are two wagon-wheel hubs turned together:
The hubs, having thru axle-holes, are turned around their bore, very similar to pen turning. The cascabel is solid, and prepped with a machinist's center-bit to put a 60 degree center hole in each end.
Regards, John
I've started a model of the big cannon in the Cary Grant movie "The Pride and the Passion." Here is a practice cascabel (the knob at the breech of a muzzle-loading cannon) from a cocobolo scrap.
Here are two wagon-wheel hubs turned together:
The hubs, having thru axle-holes, are turned around their bore, very similar to pen turning. The cascabel is solid, and prepped with a machinist's center-bit to put a 60 degree center hole in each end.
Regards, John
