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Bill
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PostSubject: At a standstill with my pipes   At a standstill with my pipes Icon_minitimeSun Jun 15, 2008 5:35 pm

I have not done anything with ceramic for almost a year. I set up for it this spring, once the snow cleared the door to my shed, but I'm stuck on one thing. I need a couple of wooden shapes and I don't have a lathe to make them with.

I've painstakenly made exactly the shapes I want in ceramic, but to make them more than one per year, I would need a bore that has my interior shape, and a mold that is slightly larger than my external shape.

The bore can be made out of wood, because it will just be enlarging and shaping the hole in powder dry greenware. The mold needs to be made in plaster, but I would make the mold using the wooden shape as the "original".

I need a lathe, but can't justify the purchase for just two shapes. I keep telling myself that I should just take my designs down to the metal shop and have someone make them out of steel, but that probably cost more than a small wood lathe.

I am almost to the point of trying to mount a dowel on my power drill and rotate it while trimming it with my dremel tool. But that's just nuts. I need a lathe. But I just can't afford one.
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PostSubject: Re: At a standstill with my pipes   At a standstill with my pipes Icon_minitimeThu Jun 19, 2008 2:49 am

how are you at wood carving? Hand tools are almost always a lot less expensive than power tools. It's amazing what some folks can accomplish with just a stick of wood and a pocket knife.
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PostSubject: Re: At a standstill with my pipes   At a standstill with my pipes Icon_minitimeThu Jun 19, 2008 3:47 pm

HI Charlotte,

The bore at least needs to be symmetrical, so that it drills straight. And the mold should be too so the edges are of equal size.

I've got the stuff to try to make my power drill act as a lathe of sorts, either it's a waste of money and a dangerous endeavor, or I'll have the shapes I need fairly soon.

Kind of dead on this board right now, so I was just posting my gripes for lack of any other conversation...
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