I had to make shaft for a customer that required veneer rings. For some of you that may not be such a big deal. I hate veneer rings. I think they look like caca. Anyway... I thought I'd share my experience and possibly help someone out if they were interested. I don't believe this would be a good set up for poopin out a bunch of rings but I only needed a couple so it worked fine for me.
I chucked up a 1.5 dia piece of maple...faced it... then cut some small strips of two sided tape and made a cross on the face of the maple with the tape.
Cut off a piece of the veneer I needed and pressed it on the face with the tape holding it in place...Carefully...making sure it didn't crack. First cut was with the router bit about half on the maple round just to trim and make the veneer round.
Next I cut the center out at .625 with the lathe spinning in forward. Then I cut the outer edge of the ring approx 1.025 dia with the lathe spinning in reverse. Using a razor blade I carefully slid between the veneer and the maple I worked the veneer off the piece of maple. Cleaned off the excess tape on the ring with some lacquer thinner, blew air on it and then touch faced the maple off and replaced the tape for round two.
First time tried this and it worked out great. Nice clean cut rings that will look like caca when the shaft is finished!
But the important thing is it'll be what that customer wants as long as I can make the shaft the right length!!!!
You can see in the bottom picture that the ring is slightly frayed along the outer edge on one side. The finished shaft size at the ring is approx .820 so this shouldn't be a problem.
Over all they turned out OK.....I really didn't doink with them too much...just slapped it on there and give em a cut. If one played around with some different style bits and rotation speeds yada, yada, yada....
you might get different results that would even be better.
Gotta love live tooling for cue building........been using it more and more for different aspects in the building processes. Not just a tool for threading anymore.
I chucked up a 1.5 dia piece of maple...faced it... then cut some small strips of two sided tape and made a cross on the face of the maple with the tape.
Cut off a piece of the veneer I needed and pressed it on the face with the tape holding it in place...Carefully...making sure it didn't crack. First cut was with the router bit about half on the maple round just to trim and make the veneer round.
Next I cut the center out at .625 with the lathe spinning in forward. Then I cut the outer edge of the ring approx 1.025 dia with the lathe spinning in reverse. Using a razor blade I carefully slid between the veneer and the maple I worked the veneer off the piece of maple. Cleaned off the excess tape on the ring with some lacquer thinner, blew air on it and then touch faced the maple off and replaced the tape for round two.
First time tried this and it worked out great. Nice clean cut rings that will look like caca when the shaft is finished!
But the important thing is it'll be what that customer wants as long as I can make the shaft the right length!!!!
You can see in the bottom picture that the ring is slightly frayed along the outer edge on one side. The finished shaft size at the ring is approx .820 so this shouldn't be a problem.
Over all they turned out OK.....I really didn't doink with them too much...just slapped it on there and give em a cut. If one played around with some different style bits and rotation speeds yada, yada, yada....
you might get different results that would even be better.
Gotta love live tooling for cue building........been using it more and more for different aspects in the building processes. Not just a tool for threading anymore.
:grin: Thanks for sharing.
