If you have a professional tool at hand, you can learn its possibilities endlessly. So, for example, ordinary building lathe is often used as the basis for the manufacture of souvenirs and various decorative products. A beautifully made wooden candlestick on a lathe looks great in a classic home interior. A large vase made of wood is capable of amazing imagination. Sometimes in the hands of an experienced master, ordinary at first glance, chock turns into a real artistic masterpiece. How do they do it? What else can you grind yourself?
A wood lathe allows you to make not only building blanks, but also various decorative products that are designed to please the eye and demonstrate the capabilities of the equipment. Any crafts made of wood are very practical, they will always find a place in the house, so you can safely experiment and try to do something with your own hands. The easiest way is turning a vase from a tree, a jug, a salt shaker and a casket for storing any little thing can easily turn out. You can offer to make chess.
Vase
How can I make a vase on a lathe? For its manufacture, you may need a certain tool. In addition to the lathe, it is necessary to take cutters, a planer, a hacksaw, a ruler, a pair of compasses, an ax and a saw, grinding skins and a chisel.
The process of turning a vase is extremely simple. True, it should be noted that vases are complex in configuration and simple. Consider how you can grind a simple option.
- First, a saw cut out a block of wood, 10-20 cm long.
- It must be earned by a planer, both from the ends, and along the length.
- The workpiece is installed in the machine chuck.
- The machine is turned on and checked for the beating of the part.
- If it is present, alignment is necessary.
- The top layer of wood is removed to a depth of 1 cm.
- The chamfer is removed at an angle of 45 ° from the outer end.
- A drill is inserted into the tailstock.
- A hole is drilled deeper than the length of the workpiece by 3-5 cm. That is, the bottom of the vase is determined.
- Now with the help of cutting, which is called a jamb, the cavity of the product is cut out.
Since the vase can have a different shape: straight, oval, and so on, respectively, and the bore of the upper surface is maintained accurate shape. After that, the product is polished from the outside and from the inside. What is sandpaper used for? The wooden product is removed from the machine, the bottom is manually finished using a planer and sandpaper. After which the souvenir is varnished.
Chess
Chess - figures are small, therefore their manufacture requires a certain experience and hardness of the turner's hand, as well as its eye. To make a figure, you need a small block of wood with a section of 50x50 or 60x60 mm. On the one hand, it is formed into a smaller section, for example, 40x40 or 30x30 mm, as shown in the video.
With this smaller end, the workpiece is inserted and clamped into the chuck. Now you need to cut the free end of the blank with a cutter and press it with the center of the tailstock. A layer of wood is removed by the cutter so that the workpiece becomes a circular cross section. Then you can start making the chess piece itself. You can use traditional forms, you can dream up.
Attention! It is not recommended to insert a quadrangular chock into the cartridge. When turning, this will cause severe stress on the cutting tool. Therefore, it is worth the workpiece to earn extra money with an ax or a planer, as shown in the photo below.
As soon as the figure is completely ready, it must be polished, and at the end cut off from the pressed part of the workpiece. It remains only to manually process it with varnish or paint it black or white. By the way, a wooden candlestick is made on a lathe in the same way. Its length is longer, which means that a longer workpiece will be needed.
Making a box
A casket is not the most difficult element that can be turned on a lathe. But if it is a product with a cover, then the drawings here are required. After all, the lid should go into the box and sit on the groove, that is, the lid should be flush with the edge of the product itself.
For the manufacture of a casket a cylindrical blank is required, which is installed in a lathe. The main thing is that the workpiece does not reach the bed.
- First, a layer of wood is removed with a semicircular cutter to give the workpiece a rounded shape.
- Then, with a jamb, you need to earn some surface, that is, to make it smooth.
- Then it is necessary to form the inner cavity of the wooden product. For this, a narrow straight cutter is used. This operation cannot be completed in one pass, so you will have to carry out it stepwise.
- Using a triangular cutter, you can expand the internal cavity to the wall thickness.
- The bottom of the box is aligned with a straight, but wide cutter. He also makes a groove for the lid.
- Grinding of internal and external planes is carried out.
- Varnish is applied from above, wax from the inside.
The lid is made of the same material as the box itself. It just requires a thin blank, which is fixed in the chuck of a woodworking lathe. First, the treatment is carried out with a wide straight cutter, that is, the inner part is formed, it can be flat or concave inward. Be sure to grind.
Then the outer part is formed, for which the workpiece will have to be turned over. That is, the semi-finished part of the lid is cut off and is installed in the cartridge with an almost finished inner side. Then, the same cutter forms the outer side of the lid. It can also be flat or convex. At the end, grinding is carried out. After which the finished product is varnished.
In principle, the order of manufacture of the parties can be changed if there is a pen holder on the lid. To do this, you will have to take the workpiece thicker to sharpen the handle. It can be round, oval or curly. You can make the handle as a separately machined element, and attach it to the box cover with adhesive.
The diameter of the lid should correspond to the diameter of the inner groove of the box. That is, the lid should freely enter the groove.
These products can be made with your own hands on a wood lathe. The most difficult of the above decorative items is the casket. Here you must precisely adhere to the dimensions, especially with regard to wall thickness. They made it a little thinner, and there will be a high probability that it will burst over time. In addition, you will have to adhere to the diameters of the lid and groove on the box itself. If one of the sizes does not match, then either the lid will fall inside the box, or it will be on the edge of the product.
Therefore, when turning home-made wood crafts on a lathe, attention and accuracy are required (the work is not rough). Of course, it is necessary to take measurements with a caliper during the work process.