Woodturning A Stave Segmented Pencil Cup From Pen Blanks
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This project video is a pencil cup to answer this month’s club challenge. While I could grab a chunk of solid wood, I want to do a segmented work. This time a stave segmentation.
My raw material is twelve pen blanks for the staves and some scrap walnut for a bottom and rim. My pencel cup is about five inches tall and almost three inches in diameter, finished with lacquer.
Each stave is cut to a trapezoid shape with 75 degree angles on each side. 75 is the complement of 15 degrees. 15 times 2 because it is cut on both sides, 12 staves is a complete circle.
I’m looking for a better stave cutting sled for my table saw. Please offer your suggestions. I used a Wixey digital angle finder to set my saw blade.
Enjoy!
Hallo,maby you could use Bird mouth routerbits.
I’ll check it out.
Thanks for the suggestion
Alan
Love to watch what you turn
Always fun.
Thank you John
Alan
Very nice project, Alan. Many years ago, as a “learning piece”, I made a similar sized cup, just using regular spruce lumber. I don’t recall how I cut the staves, but as you did, I glued them up in small sections until I had two halves, then sanded the two mating surface flat. My largest Forstner bit wasn’t that large, but I used it to make the cylindrical hole, then scraped it out until I had a wall thickness of about 1/4″. I gave that cup away, so I don’t know if it is still being used. Thanks again for another educational video.
Thank you for sharing
Alan
I’d suggest using a 15 degree router bit vs the table saw for the small segments.
That could work.
Thanks for your suggestion
Alan