Learning Turning

I've turned many a block the old fashioned way....well, not really but, I have turned many a block of foam with hot wire technology. First you need a drawing which needs to be transfurred to masonite. The masonite is then cut by hand into a template that gets clamped into a machine. The machine, blah blah blah. It's a huge process. I could right a small book about it.

Learning how to lathe in the computer is an amazingly gratifying thing. One I figured it out I was blown away. It makes me dream of giant Louis Nevelson fragments set into the huge molding profiles that I explain a few entries down. FIgures peek from between the framed, turned shapes. It'll soon be visualize.

The video is a fly through assorted lathing exercises that I'd set for myself. All of the models in it are my own.

Music: Bella Fleck, Flight of the Cosmic Hippo