They are anyway special because they are handcrafted. And your skills have clearly improved, your last top is quite better finished. I am curious to see your next one.
Yes, I can't wait to start making the spindle. I will try a turquoise inlay but I don't think It will go well (first time never goes to plan ). First, however, I need to get more wood. As I told you before the free wood available at the work shop is not great. I have made quite a lot of progress with the concavity of the tungsten carbide. Instead of making a metal ball to grind with like you did, I found a ceramic bearing ball I used to use as a tip (but stopped as it was so large), superglued it to some brass and used that as a grinder. Using some 5 micron lapping paste i was able to remove all the big scratches (although this took a lot of time). I would have used a higher grit to start but I left all my other lapping pastes in England. I will keep you up to date as things progress.
Very well ! You can already use that carbide base, but when you will polish the carbide surface with thinner diamond pastes, you will have longer spin times, and a more beautiful, very shining surface. Good luck with the turquoise inlay.
Just stumbled across the one hour record being broken. Awesome channel!
They are anyway special because they are handcrafted. And your skills have clearly improved, your last top is quite better finished. I am curious to see your next one.
Yes, I can't wait to start making the spindle. I will try a turquoise inlay but I don't think It will go well (first time never goes to plan ). First, however, I need to get more wood. As I told you before the free wood available at the work shop is not great.
I have made quite a lot of progress with the concavity of the tungsten carbide. Instead of making a metal ball to grind with like you did, I found a ceramic bearing ball I used to use as a tip (but stopped as it was so large), superglued it to some brass and used that as a grinder. Using some 5 micron lapping paste i was able to remove all the big scratches (although this took a lot of time). I would have used a higher grit to start but I left all my other lapping pastes in England. I will keep you up to date as things progress.
Very well ! You can already use that carbide base, but when you will polish the carbide surface with thinner diamond pastes, you will have longer spin times, and a more beautiful, very shining surface.
Good luck with the turquoise inlay.
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