If you go back to the entry prior to this "unusual ornament" you will see the block I made this one from. This one looks like it has many different designs in it and I didn't see this outcome until I stopped the lathe. I like surprises like this.

Absolutely awesome.  Thanks for showing that.  I never would have thought of that.  

That is beautiful.  Always amazing how a square block glue up comes out when you shape it on the lathe.

Beautiful!  I'd be interested in seeing the "before" picture of the glue-up.

16 minutes ago, JimM said:

Beautiful!  I'd be interested in seeing the "before" picture of the glue-up.

 Jim, The block glued up of Walnut and mostly maple is featured in my earlier entry about 3 entries ago. I started with 2 identical blocks. The earlier turning result  is featured in the earlier post

Edited July 19, 20206 yr by Ron Altier

Very nice, Ron. 

48 minutes ago, JimM said:

Beautiful!  I'd be interested in seeing the "before" picture of the glue-up.

I found it for ya.  

 

You are just tempting us to clean out the shop and use the scrapes. Whoda thunk such beauty could come from scrapes

I am not versed in cube terms. I wanted to tell you how I turned it.  So here is the real definition of how I turned it.  I had a cube, 

A solid with six congruent square faces. a regular hexahedron. The point in a cube where 3 lines intersect at the corner is called vertex

 

I put one vertex in the headstock and the opposing vertex in the tailstock.

 

Which means one good turn deserves another. It TURNED out good

Holy cow Ron - that is beautiful!

Didn't you need to flatten the vertices a bit? In which case, would it not have become an octahedron? In any case, you turned it into beautiful ovoidal ornament. 

 

 

 

Fabulous, Ron!

11 hours ago, Ron Altier said:

I put one vertex in the headstock and the opposing vertex in the tailstock.

A diamond in the rough so to speak?

4 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Didn't you need to flatten the vertices a bit? In which case, would it not have become an octahedron? In any case, you turned it into beautiful ovoidal ornament. 

 

 

 

Too many big weird words Gene. 

5 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

beautiful ovoidal ornament

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Too many big weird words Gene. 

Sorry, Larry. Just my feeble attempt at geometric humor. I guess it fell on a horizontal plane.

21 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Sorry, Larry. Just my feeble attempt at geometric humor. I guess it fell on a horizontal plane.

Some of those words went totally vertical to me.