Thread: spindle turning with template

sbnjhfty wrote: : Why not use the lost-wax method? Because it would require buying an carving a large amount of wax? Or did you have something else in mind? ?? Andy Barss

Andrew Barss wrote: I mostly do faceplate turning, and have been asked to do some spingle turning. This is for a science fair project my department is doing on speech, and I'll be turning spindles with iregular shapes to help model vocal tracts (we'll use them as a form to cast clay or plaster hollows from, then play air through them). I have a printout of the shapes (based on measurements of human vocal tracts during vowel...

In article , Andrew Barss wrote: I mostly do faceplate turning, and have been asked to do some spingle turning. This is for a science fair project my department is doing on speech, and I'll be turning spindles with iregular shapes to help model vocal tracts (we'll use them as a form to cast clay or plaster hollows from, then play air through them). I have a printout of the shapes (based on measurements of human vocal tracts during...

sbnjhfty wrote: : Why not use the lost-wax method? Because it would require buying an carving a large amount of wax? Or did you have something else in mind? ?? Andy Barss