I wanted a quick and creative little project, so I came up with this wood turned bottle.
First of all I mounted a scrap piece of spruce on my homemade drill lathe.
I roughly made my piece cylindrical, and then using my woodturning gouges I gave it the basic shape of a bottle.
Then I sanded the piece on the lathe starting with 80 grit sand paper and then moving on to 150 grit.
In order to place my secret message in the bottle I had to make an against the grain hole. So I did that by drilling with a small drill bit and then gradually moving on to bigger ones.
I mounted an old wine cork I had on my drill lathe’s chuck. I mounted the chuck on my drill press and sanded it with 80 grit sandpaper to shape it to the size I wanted it.
I wood burned the title on the bottle, added my secret message inside and that was it.
I hope you like my little miniature wood bottle!
I want to give my special thanks to BM tools for providing me with a set of woodturning gouges.
Hi Ion -
ReplyDeleteyou know, I didn't realized that Greece runs on 230v/50hz - for some reason I believed it was 220v/50hz. That would be one reason for a one world government - everybody the same for electricity. :-D
Thanks for the link to BM Tools!
-roo
PS - interesting bottle. How big is it? For some reason since a week or so ago, I can't play any type of embedded video in IE 11. Not even showing a place holder for the video, though I could watch you make your garden hose holder. Ah, the joys of Microsoft.