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I have wanted to turn one of these for ages and finally got around to doing it.
Started with some good and some spalted cherry and finished with a lot of bits. Unfortunately I forgot to get a photo of the wood before I started.
Not really difficult to do, but accuracy is essential. This next one is using my Jacobs chuck to ease the split tube out so that the end ring can be glued in place. It stops everything falling off :mrgreen:
Lining up the pins is a bit hairy
I'm gald that I decided on just 12 letters on each ring. There was no way that I was going to do 25 and not even 24 as my index ring on my chuck would allow. I just chose the letters I wanted for my key and chucked a load more in to fill the gaps. The pyrography of the letters was easy but 12 was enough. 3 on the end fixed ring but only one of them is the index
I love the spalting of that cherry, but it doesn't take anything away from the lettering. And now I have a nice new cryptex.
I hope that I can remember the key word Still, I have always got me chain saw ??
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John.
Started with some good and some spalted cherry and finished with a lot of bits. Unfortunately I forgot to get a photo of the wood before I started.
Not really difficult to do, but accuracy is essential. This next one is using my Jacobs chuck to ease the split tube out so that the end ring can be glued in place. It stops everything falling off :mrgreen:
Lining up the pins is a bit hairy
I'm gald that I decided on just 12 letters on each ring. There was no way that I was going to do 25 and not even 24 as my index ring on my chuck would allow. I just chose the letters I wanted for my key and chucked a load more in to fill the gaps. The pyrography of the letters was easy but 12 was enough. 3 on the end fixed ring but only one of them is the index
I love the spalting of that cherry, but it doesn't take anything away from the lettering. And now I have a nice new cryptex.
I hope that I can remember the key word Still, I have always got me chain saw ??
_________________
John.