Woodturning Tall Eccentric – Multi-Axis – Candlestick
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Eccentric turnings are both fun and scarey. One one hand they are unusual and interesting shapes. On the other hand, turning wood off-center is scarey. A lot of air gets sliced.
This is based on Barbara Dill’s book. She has categorized several types of eccentric turnings.
In this project, three additional axes are used. All are offset from the center out to about 3/8″ in from the edge. One end is also twisted about 60 degrees.
I believe the wood is butternut. It came from my walnut pile but does not have the typical dark walnut color.
Hand sanding was required to smooth out the spindle. For 80 and 120 grit, I used a small flat block of scrap wood that I could wrap the sandpaper around. Otherise, even machine sanding would leave nasty waves.
This candlestick is about 13″ tall and 2″ diameter, finished with shellac and buffed. A metal cup protects the wood from candle flame.
I will show the candle in a separate video.
Enjoy!
Just a thought….
After the roughing of the first eccentric surface a piece of paperboard behind it with the layout at this point may work as a shadow guide for the other two. After that fine tuning would get them closer to perfect.
I can see the shadow and the solid core. However, I cannot see the difference in the shadow that I need.
But, I’ll check it out.
Alan
Can you give me all the dimensions for these turnings?
Eddie Lynn
I usually put dimensions in the description with the video.
Alan