The thing I love the most is how decorative your jig is! SO often we just have them shoved around the shop looking messy. What a fantastic idea to have it look so nice. You could hang it on the wall as a decoration and no one would even know it was a jig!
Thank you Carl. I've made a few miniature spirals and they take quite a while but are very satisfying. If you want to make larger ones the lathe hand wheel won't give sufficient leverage unless you like a lot of pain. The capstan is the answer. It's also important to leave an untouched inch or so at the end of each spiral. If you decide on a hollow spiral you should also think about inserting a piece of contrasting wood in the centre/center. Many thanks, Alan.
I really like this video. Very nice and I think an easy way to accomplish the spiral. I would like to see how you made the jig. I know it looks simple but for me I have to see it to copy it. Thanks for the nice videos you post.
I was thinking threwout the video wow that must have taken alot of time, then you answered it in the end, 3 hours was less than i imagined, then again your a skilled woodworker. Thanks for sharing. Im still hoping to turn my finances around so i can invest in a lathe. Blessings from Sweden / Mikael
Definitely a lot of work! Thanks for the demo. Was really scratching my head on how you did that in the last video! LOL Thanks for the share on Jim's channel. Gonna have to check that stuff out.
Cool jig. I want to do spirals. I have seen it done with chisels. However, with that jig and gouge you made it look easier. Glad you received my sticker!
Hi Carl! Thank you for sharing this video! I have been watching some videos about turning spirals, and I think I should give it a try sometime in the future. The sanding taco seems like a nice jig for doing just that job and also sanding in tight coves. Also, I loved the idea of the dowel, because there you can go pretty thin in diameter. Excellent video! Cheers! Daniel
I have made similar spirals but completely connected with a ring around the spiral with no joints and the ring will travel all along by holding the thing in different positions.
This jig looks like it works great. I wonder if a hand wheel on the other end of the headstock would work. Not as much leverage but more versatile. I made a hand wheel for my Shopsmith using a Dado blade arbor. It really comes in handy.
Quality. I found your video while searching for a very similar one I watched two years ago. He also used painter's tape to define the spiral prior to cutting a reference line. He did use a carving gouge, referred to it as an "eight sweep six" or something like that. Anyone have any idea of which video I mean and where I might find it again?
Great video as usual Carl. Just thinking about the SS Minnow jig... If you put fan blades on instead of handles you could have a built in dust extraction system and cooler on your lathe. Lol.
Very nice project. I was looking for a video on making the SS Minnow jig, but do not see one. Is this available somewhere? I and doing much smaller threaded items in cow horn but many of the concepts could apply quite well with a smaller scale. Thanks for your great videos!
Carl, Do you think having a dowel in the hollow section would make it easier for when you break through to the middle? Kind of like having a sacrificial piece to prevent tearout and whatnot. Anyway, keep up the good work! Thanks, Brandon
So I'm not extremely smart when it comes to wood turning but would a sacrificial dowel make the hollow spiral easier? Especially that final cut when you would normally break through to dead space!
I saw the Video using the miliput and was amazed as well! I love your work, you do some great stuff. can I ask about your lathe? how long have you had it and what are your thought and feelings on it. I am considering a new one and am not sure if I want to go Powermatic, Robust, or an old vintage model like I can find from friends on line with all the tools from the turn of the century.
Thank you very much Michael! I've had the Robust for over a year, and been very happy with it! They're very well built, and have a 7 year warranty. I don't think you can go wrong. I'm a dealer, shoot me an email if you want more information, jacobson68@yahoo.com
Nice Carl. Looking forward to seeing what it becomes when it grows up. I have done a few of these on a smaller version with 3/4" dowel rods. I then cast them in a mold for pen blanks. I use the scroll saw method from this TH-camr. th-cam.com/video/4gV1J59Ft4E/w-d-xo.html (TheMrByrom). The bonus is, I get two spirals for the price of one. Not sure you can control the size like you have done with this method but it did work for me and some different looking pens. Nice looking wheel BTW. Thanks for all of the great info you provide. JimE
Nice little jig.
Thank you for taking the time to share this technique. This is easy to follow and you have inspired me to make a captain's wheel.
The thing I love the most is how decorative your jig is! SO often we just have them shoved around the shop looking messy. What a fantastic idea to have it look so nice. You could hang it on the wall as a decoration and no one would even know it was a jig!
Really cool technique! Needs a lot of patience on sanding! Thanks for sharing!
+Scrap wood City Thank you :)
Very nice spirals and it great to watch you make them.
Thanks
Love the wheel. Nice work
Thanks for the follow-up Carl, very well demonstrated and explained,
Take care Harry
+The Little Garden Shed Workshop Thank you very much Harry!
Thank you Carl. I've made a few miniature spirals and they take quite a while but are very satisfying. If you want to make larger ones the lathe hand wheel won't give sufficient leverage unless you like a lot of pain. The capstan is the answer. It's also important to leave an untouched inch or so at the end of each spiral. If you decide on a hollow spiral you should also think about inserting a piece of contrasting wood in the centre/center.
Many thanks,
Alan.
+Alan Simpson Thank you Alan :) Thanks for the tips too.
Take care,
Carl
I really like this video. Very nice and I think an easy way to accomplish the spiral. I would like to see how you made the jig. I know it looks simple but for me I have to see it to copy it. Thanks for the nice videos you post.
I was thinking threwout the video wow that must have taken alot of time, then you answered it in the end, 3 hours was less than i imagined, then again your a skilled woodworker. Thanks for sharing. Im still hoping to turn my finances around so i can invest in a lathe. Blessings from Sweden / Mikael
+Mirakel Spektakel Thank you Mirakel!
Take care,
Carl
excellent demonstration, Talent and patience.
Thank you very much!
Definitely a lot of work! Thanks for the demo. Was really scratching my head on how you did that in the last video! LOL Thanks for the share on Jim's channel. Gonna have to check that stuff out.
+AnkleBiter Woodworks Thank you Scott! Right?! that stuff is so cool.
thank you for this lesson on spirals and especially how to set it up to make it look really nice
Thank you very much Randy
I know I am late to the party, but I cannot wait to make this and use this technique in my wands and staves.
Cool jig. I want to do spirals. I have seen it done with chisels. However, with that jig and gouge you made it look easier. Glad you received my sticker!
+Summers Woodworking Thank you Brain, and thanks for the sticker.
A lot of work , but worth it . The jig seems to work great . Take care.
+glen mckelvey Yes it is :) Thank you Glen!
Take care,
Carl
Great tutorial Carl. just the thing to make Jacobean or barley twist candle sticks.Thanks for sharing ,Cheers, Bram
+Brams shed Thank you very much Bram!
Take care,
Carl
Awesome Carl, many, many thanks. When I get a bigger lathe, I will be spiralling.Jim
+Jimson's Stuff Thank you Jim, and thank you for sharing your videos!
Take care,
Carl
Very cool, thank you, I have an old "king" chair with spiral posts and always have wanted to make them myself.
Glad the video helped.
Sweet spiral Carl, it's something I should really get a grip on :)
Thank you for sharing!!
+Yuval Lahav Woodturning Thank you Yuval!
Great video I like spirals your technic is really interesting looks simple enough
The hand wheel is a great idea
+Jerry Puckett Thank you Jerry!
Nice. Inspired me to try it. Thanks.
Brilliant work!
Very cool! Carl, you are amazing!
+Steve Brown Thank you Steve!
liked and subscribed thanks from Chicago! i love your featured moments a lot. you turned me on to a few TH-cam channels i would not have found
Thank you very much John!
Hi Carl! Thank you for sharing this video! I have been watching some videos about turning spirals, and I think I should give it a try sometime in the future. The sanding taco seems like a nice jig for doing just that job and also sanding in tight coves. Also, I loved the idea of the dowel, because there you can go pretty thin in diameter. Excellent video! Cheers! Daniel
+Daniel Vilarino Thank you very much Daniel!
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I have made similar spirals but completely connected with a ring around the spiral with no joints and the ring will travel all along by holding the thing in different positions.
I use Milliput for customising vinyl toys! It sands like bondo but is structurally much stronger, I would imagine it turns beautifully...
+locohombre79 It looks really cool!
When you say "woodcarving chisels" I think you mean to say carving *gouges*.
The spirals look really cool, I'd like to try this sometime.
+awldune Oops, yes carving gouges.
very good my friend
This jig looks like it works great. I wonder if a hand wheel on the other end of the headstock would work. Not as much leverage but more versatile. I made a hand wheel for my Shopsmith using a Dado blade arbor. It really comes in handy.
+Gil Grace Thank you Gil! Yes a hand wheel on the back side works great too, but for this the leverage really helps.
Quality. I found your video while searching for a very similar one I watched two years ago. He also used painter's tape to define the spiral prior to cutting a reference line. He did use a carving gouge, referred to it as an "eight sweep six" or something like that. Anyone have any idea of which video I mean and where I might find it again?
Great video as usual Carl. Just thinking about the SS Minnow jig... If you put fan blades on instead of handles you could have a built in dust extraction system and cooler on your lathe. Lol.
+Stu Brearley Lol! Thank you Stu!
Great in depth tutorial Carl, very well produced and filmed mate. I feel a segmenting feeling coming on though ;).
Great video.
Take care.
Mike
+Mike Waldt Thank you Mike! OK OK I'll do a segmenting video for you.....lol
Take care,
Carl
Looks pretty cool Carl but I'm sure I'd have a pile of broken ones on the floor before I got one done.
Take care my friend and do a kindness
Mark
+MARK Baid Lol Thank you Mark!
Take care,
Carl
very cool process and nice looking jig to boot. Still trying to figure out how you put a spiral on the inside of the cylinder.
+Gord Roberts Thank you Gord! I'm not sure what you mean by spiral on the inside?
+Carl Jacobson early in the video, you showed a dowel with threads on the inside?
Excelente maestro, eres muy practico para trabajar.
Excellent...!
cheers...
+Adam Quincey Thank you Adam!
Very nice project. I was looking for a video on making the SS Minnow jig, but do not see one. Is this available somewhere? I and doing much smaller threaded items in cow horn but many of the concepts could apply quite well with a smaller scale.
Thanks for your great videos!
Milliput... that sounds like the stuff Billy Mays was selling. That green fix-all putty.
+Adam R Thanks I'll check it out.
thank you very much
+احمد الديب Thank you!
A lot of work involved with that. However what a great finished item.
Thank you Paul!
pretty neat
+Michael Thomas Thank you!
Carl,
Do you think having a dowel in the hollow section would make it easier for when you break through to the middle? Kind of like having a sacrificial piece to prevent tearout and whatnot.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
Thanks,
Brandon
I like this idea
+SimkinC42 That's a great idea Brandon, I'm sure it would help.
Take care,
Carl
Get onto the project
Olá amigo no BRASIL se usa muito este mod de desenho nas peças de moveis eu trabalhei anos fazendo este torneado vc esta de parabéns Abraços \0/
+Toninho Arteirinho Vip Muito obrigado! Isso é ótimo!!
Gracias desde medellin colombiana
¡Gracias!
I know this is a couple of years old, but would using a dremel tool make it go faster.
I was taught a little different. I might make a video of it after I make a rock box video.
So I'm not extremely smart when it comes to wood turning but would a sacrificial dowel make the hollow spiral easier? Especially that final cut when you would normally break through to dead space!
I didn't think about that Nathan, thanks great idea!
I saw the Video using the miliput and was amazed as well! I love your work, you do some great stuff. can I ask about your lathe? how long have you had it and what are your thought and feelings on it. I am considering a new one and am not sure if I want to go Powermatic, Robust, or an old vintage model like I can find from friends on line with all the tools from the turn of the century.
Thank you very much Michael! I've had the Robust for over a year, and been very happy with it! They're very well built, and have a 7 year warranty. I don't think you can go wrong. I'm a dealer, shoot me an email if you want more information, jacobson68@yahoo.com
It can be on a metal lathe with more accuracy and much faster.
Milliput is available through Amazon.
+Gary McCoy Thank you Gary, I'll check it out.
Great job Carl. I was just wondering if you can do that with the lathe set at a very low speed? Or is it to risky?
Thanks for sharing
Roy
+Roy Wrenn Thank you Roy! I turned it down to 50 rpm It's just a little to fast :(
What does he use as a grinder to sharpen
I use the Wolverine sharpening system
Ok thanks also what are the wheels that you use on the grinder
The secret to curly fries!
how long did this take ?
+norm1124 About three hours.
+Carl Jacobson Thank you for the time you share with us.
Wow, that's tedious!
Nice Carl. Looking forward to seeing what it becomes when it grows up.
I have done a few of these on a smaller version with 3/4" dowel rods. I then cast them in a mold for pen blanks. I use the scroll saw method from this TH-camr. th-cam.com/video/4gV1J59Ft4E/w-d-xo.html (TheMrByrom). The bonus is, I get two spirals for the price of one.
Not sure you can control the size like you have done with this method but it did work for me and some different looking pens.
Nice looking wheel BTW.
Thanks for all of the great info you provide. JimE
+Jim E Thank you Jim! Yes that's a really cool technique.
Its nice but alltogether way too much work ;)
Seen nothing done by hand lmao
very good my friend