Turning a Walnut Football Woodturning with Sam Angelo

Sam turns a walnut football with laces. He shows how he makes this wooden football-step by step from glue up TO making the laces TO the final shaping of the project.
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[@johnnyb95678]

Good choice of wood for the football, it turned out really good. Thank you for sharing.

[@davidmorgan7522]

Very cool Sam! Great choice of wood. Thanks for sharing.
Take care, Dave

[@carolriley8472]

Cool project, Sam...love the Walnut!

[@glencrandall7051]

That's a fine football Sam. The walnut works very well for a good color. It would make a good trophy for a little league team or even a high school team. Crank up a CNC machine and you could turn them out a dozen at a time. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

[@WYOMINGWOODTURNER]

This actually was a trophy for a fantasy football league winner. Thanks, Sam.

[@jackthompson5092]

Great football Sam.

[@oldgeezer1746]

Good to see this video back. the laces look great.

[@WYOMINGWOODTURNER]

Thank you! 😊
If you remember, before, I had issues with something copy written in the video. I reworked it. So here it is again, Sam.

[@MarklTucson]

Very interesting project and turned out really cool. It strikes me that this is a challenging project -- making an egg shape assumes the ends will be different in shape, so one can cover over a multitude of shaping sins when making an egg. The football wants both ends to be the same, so it has to be done right on both ends and in curvature or it won't look right. While you were doing this, I realized that there must be some strict definition for the shape of a football so I looked that up. Turns out a football is roughly a prolate spheroid with defined circumferences for the center around the circular dimension - the lateral axis (even that is hard to put down in writing) and along the longitudinal axis of the ball. So, all in all, I learned something today.

[@WYOMINGWOODTURNER]

Mark, thank you
I didn’t think of this as a really big egg, but I guess it is.
Sam.

[@donkeybox15]

cool idea

[@tompuskar4426]

Great project, Sam. Great choice of woods. I noticed your cute dog in the background and assume he is a helper. I'm no vet but have been told that walnut dust can be harmful to both pets and humans. I personally am a bit allergic and always wear a respirator when working with it. Might want to be careful with the pup when you're working with walnut, just in case.

[@Penner-49]

Sam, you did a great job making g that Football!!!!glue- ups for lathe work are noy easy, well done( just don't try to kick it,sore. Toes for sure!!!!
Bob-in-Fabius

[@WYOMINGWOODTURNER]

Now you tell me, Sam

[@DavidBird-uu8km]

Very nice.

[@jamesbrunk9817]

Looks like you pulled the brad nails before turning. I wondered how you intended to deal with that potential problem.

[@mickeybailey5147]

I’ve often thought of turning these. Have you hollowed any?

[@WYOMINGWOODTURNER]

No, this is the only one I’ve ever made, new hollowing here Sam

[@WYOMINGWOODTURNER]

It should read no hollowing.