I started by planning 36 cuts at 10 degrees with a Yellow Heart and bloodwood combo. 
it was very difficult cutting & I soon wished I had not tried this. The wood was very difficult to keep in place safely. I did get it cut & glued up. From there it went downhill. I had to alter it & redesign due to problems with the wood. Then my wife didn’t like the design & I shortened & altered it. Just as I made the last alteration , it flew out of the lathe and believe it or not…….I caught the darn thing in mid flight. I could only detect a couple of small places and decided to let them go.  It wasn’t possible to put it back on the lathe anyway.  Then I finished it. I decided to count the sawn segments & discovered I only had 34??????  It was a near perfect fit. That meant that each segment was near 10.58 degrees??????

 

i will NOT make another like it😃

I don’t think I’d have the patience to try that. Love it!

Come on Ron. You got the hard one out of the way. The next one will be easy. 😂

That must be some very thin segments to get that many pieces in . Wonderful. The only change I would suggest on the next is a longer finial.

However difficult it was, I'd say it was worth it.

9 hours ago, Gerald said:

That must be some very thin segments to get that many pieces in . Wonderful. The only change I would suggest on the next is a longer finial.

HA! I had a longer finial and that is the part my wife did NOT like, so I changed it.   As I've always said " A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do"

That's a real beauty Ron

Ron you are the king of ornaments. As usual that is beautiful. How you manage to make cuts that small and accurate and still have all ten fingers is amazing !

Paul

One stunning ornament by a real craftsman. I love but will never try it.