Hallo Leute,
ich habe Art Liestman gemailt. Er hat promt geantwortet. Es ist kein Fake.
Hier der Text von der Mail:
Dear Mr. Liestman,
my name is Andreas, I’m a nonprofit wood turner from Germany and a great fan from your “staff”. That’s the reason why I showed my woodturning colleagues in our forum the link to your homepage and your great work.
One of my favorites is „Once A Sphere“. In our wood turner forum we had a discussion about this part. Some colleagues couldn’t believe, that this part is turned by handcraft. They say it’s too perfect, it must be a fake.
I’m sure you did it by handcraft. My question now, can you describe us how you did it, what kind of tools did you take and maybe send me some pictures of the creation, to show it in our forum. That would be great.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks’ in advance.
Best regards from Germany
Andreas
PS: I had a workshop with Peter Hromek two years ago we turned a kind of egg, drilled it through with a 13/15 “ drill bit and used a ½ “ bowl gauge to hollow it out from both sides through the hole.
Here is his page from Peter Hromek, maybe you know him
www.salzundpfeffermuehlen.de/holzgefaesse.html The Part we did, he called it nest, is the last part on this page. We opened the Part with a arbortech woodcarver.
Hier seine Antwort:
That piece was done many years ago. I don’t have any photos of turning it and it’s not something that I do now. However, the technique is old. First, turn a sphere by hand. That can be done in various ways. I learned to do it from Christian Burchard, but I can’t locate an article or video of him teaching it. However, this article seems to be essentially the same technique:
http://www.timsturnery.com/pdf/TurningS ... asyWay.pdf
This article is similar but uses the vacuum chuck as an option:
http://www.rrosand.com/articles/18-2.shtml
The second part is to use a jam chuck to hold the sphere while hollowing it. I don’t find any video about this, but the idea is simply to hold the solid sphere in a jam chuck for hollowing. The end of this video shows the use of a jam chuck in making the sphere, but the same chuck can be used for hollowing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldvHi8OFJqU
As for tools, it doesn’t matter too much. I probably shaped my sphere with a bowl gouge, but a spindle gouge would also work. For hollowing, I likely used Kelton brand hollower in a Jamieson captive hollowing system. I probably hollowed it from both sides, as you describe the egg, but I don’t remember for sure.
The interesting thing about the piece is that it WAS turned as a sphere. Being made of wet cherry wood, it warped into a football (North American football, not European) shaped piece as it dried. The stand that it sits on is bent oak.
Thanks for the nice email. Please give me a pointer to your forum. Good luck!
Art Liestman
Es ist nicht wichtig, was du betrachtest, sondern was du siehst.
Henry David Thoreau
