Segmented Wood Feature Rings - Design and Production (10)

Design and production of segmented wood feature rings, each with as many as 350 wood pieces. The techniques and equipment needed to produce intricate segmented wood feature rings is demonstrated. Starting with the slicing of the thin boards using the Accu-Slice band saw accessory, producing the laminated wood strips, cutting the wood segments with the table saw sled, gluing up the segment rings, and finishing the segmented wood feature rings. These feature rings will be used in future videos on the design and production of segmented wood bowls, segmented wood Pysanky Eggs, and the Christmas Tree Ornaments described in a previous video.

[@paulbrandt9149]

Great Video, thanks

[@Gnomeshoes91]

WOW that trick with the tape to 'roll' the segments into the ring configuration is genius.

[@aligned4good]

THANK YOU!!!!! Very informative. Thank you for sharing.

[@vafajabbarpour9920]

ty for share. this was the best video about woodturning that i,ve ever seen

[@alfredoleiser]

beautiful work and excellent explanation. thank you very much

[@Satyasam108]

Wow! Thank's for sharing

[@ronaldainaire7086]

Great video!

[@guyscarcella2329]

Awesome !!!!!

[@benbrubaker7896]

Thanks for sharing. Your techniques are much easier and yield better results than most of the videos I have watched on segmented turnings.

[@terryjones8360]

Very nice!

[@joswolters6822]

Very nice work.

[@dmaschy599]

Good information. " THANKS "

[@trikermansbike]

Look very nice.

[@HectorGonzalez-bx5fq]

Es una maravilla verte trabajar . un saludo

[@BADALICE]

Those feature rings are great. The items produced from them are beautiful. It's funny how satisfying it is staring at beautiful finished wood. Don't you think? So I have to thank you for convincing me to buy a band saw. I was going to do some of this on the table saw, but I have a feeling I will sacrifice less wood with the band saw. That means more re organizing the shop to make room. Thanks. Great video by the way.

[@Accu-Slice]

If you are looking for a band saw, I recommend the Laguna 14/12. I especially like the ceramic blade guides. I have two of these, one for my home shop and one to take on the road for demos. I have no affiliation with Laguna. I also have a 14" Jet and a 14" Rikon, but I prefer the Laguna for all my projects.

[@BADALICE]

@@Accu-Slice Laguna 14/12; Not the Central Machinery bench top from Harbor Freight? I can understand why you like it if price is any indicator of the quality. I know it's worth every penny. I can't stand working with marginal tools; it ends up taking more time to produce a marginal product. Do you suppose the Chinese outfit their military with the same tools they try to sell us? Boy wouldn't that make a great military comed? I watch you guys on here run 8" and better through the band saw slicing of 1/4" , ... too whatever size planks, blanks, boards. and they are perfect, just like slicing bread. I know that's why that Laguna is so cherry. I'v never operated a bandsaw of that quality. I've worked in a couple cabinet shops, prevost bus conversion woodshop, high school wood shop, although they may have had the machine, I never had to use it. The places I have worked where I needed to use the band saw. I usually had to repair it before I could use it, and it seems that the blade always wanted to walk out of the line. Frustrating. When that blade decides it wants to travel in it's own direction you can't fight it. You just twist the blade. I keep the guide about a 1/4" above my work. I don't know if that's right or not. Just kind of a ruel of thumb. What causes that blade to walk like that? Did someone mess up the blade, (Yes) in my case, so many guys using the equip that have no clue what they are doing, smoke flying everywhere, oh great broke another blade, I just put that on there. Thanks a lot. My next question, what can you expect out of a $250.00 band saw, if you set it up just right, and take care of it? I know what that Laguna can do, I sure would appreciate it's capabilities if I had one. I'm a spa builder/ refurbisher I don't need perfection most of the parts I cut on a band saw are hidden frame work; rounded corners. Right now I'm in my own shop for a couple years now, and still cutting round corners on my table saw. I was seriously thinking Harbor Freight, but you turned the lights on for me. I would not get one from them. I made that mistake when I bought my table saw. I took it back before I got it all out of the box. SHOP TALK. I want to get a wood lathe, drill press, urgent. and of course, a jointer, a planer. All of those would be for my personal enjoyment. I would actually , I just thought , right now, I would like to send you a few pictures of some of the things I have made. You can see them on F.B. Vance DeWitt. Thanks for the reply.

[@edejamircosta]

maravilhoso.......

[@kobiekaasjager4822]

The segmented rings that you make are absolutely stunning I love the different wood colors put together. Do you sell it to other turners or is it for your own use. I would really like to see you make things with it. Thank you wow.

[@brookswade5774]

Why did some of the rings have the appearance of a cog like center? Very nice work and thank you for the tips.

[@brayswoodturning5036]

Well done! Is the fence on the band saw an after market fence?

[@DKWalser]

Very nice work. Thank you for sharing your process in such detail. On question: Do you worry about the cross grain orientation of your divider strips?

[@Accu-Slice]

If the divider strips were more than a quarter inch thick, I would be concerned. However my divider strips are normally only 0.020" to 0.0625" thick. To date I have never seen a problem with the more than a hundred projects I have completed with these segmented feature strips. There a a number of examples of some of my finished projects on our web site: www.sisweb.com/wood/accu-slice.htm under the customer projects tab.

[@darrylespeland4824]

what blades do you recommend for the table saw and the band saw?

[@ro_yo_mi]

I haven't the patients to do this type of work, but it is very interesting to watch. Your finished rings are amazing. Out of strict curiosity about how much time does it take to create a set of rings not including any delays in waiting for glue to cure?

[@Accu-Slice]

It's a little hard to saw. For my last set of rings I spend more than 16 hours (2 days) just cutting more than 500 thin veneer strips of various varieties of wood to enable me to make about 30 laminated strips which will produce about 50 to 60 feature rings. Designing a pattern, organizing the strips and then gluing up the strips takes at least an hour per strip. Cutting the segments, spacer pieces and then sanding and gluing up the rings takes less than 2 hours. So if I were selling my time to make a ring, I would guess at about 4 hours total per ring.

[@curtisstacy5829]

Great video, did you have to sand the wood after you cut from the bandsaw? I can make the strips but the cut is not clean enough / I have to sand before glue up. Thanks Again.

[@Accu-Slice]

I normally cut with a 1/2" wide blade with 1 8 or 10 tpi. With this blade the only sanding I do is to sand the fuzzies off the bottom edge of the wood strips and also sand off the bur on the end of the wood strip. If I cut with a 4 or 6 tpi blade I would probably need to do some surface sanding.

[@Ronbo442]

i see your comment that you do not need to sand your strips. I use a Delta 14" band saw with the Carter guides and a 1/2" blade. tension seems good, yet i still get drift i must correct so I have to sand. I think I will try a different blade. any suggestions?

[@Accu-Slice]

The only sanding that I do on my rings is a quick sanding of the edges to remove the fuies. This is what is unique about the Accu-Slice band saw accessory. Since the wood is mounted to a femce there is no laterial movement of the wood as it is pushed through the band saw blade. As a result we see no band saw blade drift and the cuts are quire clean. There are a number pf examples showing this technique on many of my videos.

[@jameswicker3802]

Very interesting. I think I will try your technique. Two questions. After you cut the strips of wood do you sand them or just use them as they are? Second, can the accu-slice be used on a table saw?

[@Accu-Slice]

Normally the only sanding that I do is to sand the edges of the cut pieces with 220 grit sandpaper to remove the fuzzies. The cut surfaces are smooth enough that you can glue the slices together without additional sanding of these surfaces. The Accu-Slice was designed for the band saw and cannot be used on the band saw. The main advantage is that the kerf of the band saw blade is normally only around 0.050" whereas the table saw has a kerf of 0.125" - which means that a lot of less wood is wasted. We will be introducting a segmenting jig for the Accu-Slice in a few weeks, which will enable you to cut the wood segments for segmented wood turning on the bandsaw. Again a lot less wood will be wasted.

[@jameswicker3802]

Thank you for the prompt response

[@tiredasz]

well done! where did you get or do you have plans for the press?

[@Accu-Slice]

I did not have any plans. I just made it up from some scrap poplar wood that I had and bought a screw mechanism. My inspiration were the book binder presses that I have seen in the past.

[@sandeehill2487]

Very nice work. Thanks for sharing. I was wondering if the information in your video is in written form?

[@Accu-Slice]

The videos that we put together are not available in written form. However on our web site we do have the manual for the Accu-Slice system in written form. We also have an article there reviewing double sided tape for attaching wood to the swacrificial fence on the Accu-Slice. These are available at: www.sisweb.com/wood/accu-slice.htm

[@garrybrpwine3073]

Looks like your putting massive pressure on the cutting of the wood...

[@Accu-Slice]

Not at all. I am just feeding the board slowly through the band saw blade. The slower I push it through, the better the finish. In fact I just finished doing a trade show and I was feeding the board through the band saw blade with just one hand while demonstrating some finished samples in the other hand.

[@trashy123trash]

Why is your drum sander feed belt so narrow? Just curious...

[@Accu-Slice]

I am suprised that you noticed that. When I was sanding a board an edge caught and created a rip in the belt. I was able to save most of the belt and since I normally only sand small narrow boards, I am just making it do. I did order a new belt and when I get to the point where I get another tare or need to sand some wide boards I will replace it.

[@ronalves9118]

Great video! Do you have plans or sketches for your glue up press? Thank you Ron

[@terryjones8360]

What kind of band saw blade do you use?

[@Accu-Slice]

I normally use the 1/2" wide Timberwolf 8 to 10 tpi rake tooth tooth blades. In another video on cutting the wide boards with the Accu-Slice System I review a number of different blades to compare their performance when resawing some 12" wide boards.

[@paulschwartz5277]

What bandsaw blade do you use?

[@GizaDog]

It looks like a Laguna 14

[@Accu-Slice]

For cutting Wedges on the band saw I use a 3/4" wide blade, 14 tpi.

[@Gatekeeper39]

I noticed you slid a piece of thin shim material under the front angle iron prior to clamping the glued-up strips. What was its purpose and thickness? You didn't mention it as you were describing the process. Did the rear angle iron piece also have a shim?

[@Accu-Slice]

The video you were watching is an old video in which I just used aluminum angle irons to clamp the thin boards together. I am not sure why I used this shim. It appears to be a thin strip about 0.020" thick. The problem that I had using the technique described in this video is that the angle irons tended to angle up and not give perfectly parallel edges on the glued up strips. I now use the Glue Jig system which is described on the following web page: www.accu-slice.com/store/p54/gluejig.html This Glue Jig system eliminated the angling up of the angle irons because one angle iron is clamped to the base and the other slides on a channel to prevent it from angling up. In the video tab on that page are a number of videos showing the application of this system.

[@Gatekeeper39]

@@Accu-Slice Thanks for the update. I tried to check out the t-slot channels you mentioned were available on the accu-slice site but was unable to find them listed anywhere as a separate item. Wanted to write up a couple of feasibility options before proceeding further.

[@Gatekeeper39]

@@Accu-Slice Can you point me to the location where the t-slot channels are available for the glue jig fixture. You mentioned they were available on the accu-slice website in your glue-jig assembly video, but I was unable to track them down. I would like to price out some size adjustment options to create some custom smaller accent rings. Thanks.

[@rodney73991]

I'm look for quick way make wooden plat.

[@BADALICE]

What size are you thinking?

[@jameswicker3802]

Where do you buy the thick rubber binders you use to glue the rings? Thank you.

[@Accu-Slice]

ULINE has a fairly large selection of rubber bands. I bought a large selection for the various rings that i glue up. ULINE - www.uline.com

[@jameswicker3802]

Thank you.