I love the way you explain everything, it's so relaxed and I feel like a kid watching a really cool teacher 😃. P.S. I'm over 30
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the kind words.
@RobThurston3 жыл бұрын
Super cool. Fun to watch the process and then see the finished product match the one at beginning. Some serious talent!
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Rob. I appreciate it!
@kurtaaroncorpuz15733 жыл бұрын
Omg so satisfying Looking forward for new videos Keep up the good work sir
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I added a new video today!
@BlackCat_23 жыл бұрын
Very beautiful result and I love the way the lines look. It makes it look like a planet. :D - Heidi
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
It does! Thanks for the comment!
@josephlynch3507 Жыл бұрын
Great video. Thanks for sharing your process.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment Joseph, and thanks for watching!
@FAMAWoodworking3 жыл бұрын
Great job Dude! I hope someday I'll be able to make something like this. Congrats!
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
It really is just as easy as it looks. It just takes a lathe, a caliper, a ruler, and a spindle gouge. You don't even need a chuck. You can turn a cup center with a Morse taper for your spindle
@geraldshultz42713 жыл бұрын
Great video Scott I like your jigs.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@ZOEng993 жыл бұрын
I found that gluing some leather to my diy cup centres helps grip the wood and avoid marring. Good video sir.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop2 жыл бұрын
I should try that for the drive center. Thanks! I have a rubber o ring on cup on the live center
@robhoward95042 жыл бұрын
This is awesome!! Thank you Scott
@ScottsMiniWoodshop2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment! I'm glad you liked the video
@robohippy6 ай бұрын
I can't get billiard ball perfection when turning..... The piece never recenters perfectly. I have taken to using a pencil to mark the sphere after I rotate it. This clearly marks the high and low spots, and I can tap it a bit with a tool to get it closer.to perfectly centered. I did have an old set of cup chucks and the tailstock had an O ring, but I had a terrible time getting any piece centered on it. Guessing that comes from not being able to turn the tailstock cup chuck while it is in the tailstock and that just adds to the errors. I did put a cordless drill against my tailstock cup chuck and that helped a lot.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop6 ай бұрын
I don't think I ever achieve "billiard ball perfection" when turning a sphere by hand. My goal is to just get it as close to spherical as I possibly can. What's worked best for me is making sure the cup center in the chuck is running true, and consistently identifying the x, y, and z, axis of the piece. Periodically I have to recut my cup center to be sure its running true. I tried making a headstock cup center with an "O" ring but it just wasn't accurate enough. Keeping the "O" ring in the exact proper place while the glue dried, even with a turned groove for the "O" ring, wasn't as accurate as just the wood itself. With the 3 axis issue, I had to come up with a system that made sense to me. I start with the end grain perpendicular to the bed. I try to find some feature on the wood which I can rotate into position toward the headstock. After cutting or sanding, the piece is rotated 90 degrees so the engrain is still perpendicular to the bed, wood feature facing me. Third axis is rotating it 90 degrees so the end grain runs parallel with the bed. I just keep rotating through the same 3 axis until its round. I know sometimes things are lost when trying to explain it in written form so I hope that makes sense. I agree making a perfect tailstock cup chuck would be difficult. My tailstock cup center has an 'o' ring, but it doesn't tend to knock the piece out of alignment. I hold the piece firmly in the headstock cup and tighten the tailstock. The "O" ring seems to act more as a cushion then it does as an alignment aid. Or, maybe I just got lucky when I made my tailstock cup. I'm not sure I can visualize what you mean with the cordless drill against the tailstock cup, but it sounds interesting. Do you have a link to a photo online I can see?
@robohippy6 ай бұрын
I like how we both hold the rough sphere against the headstock cup and then press it into place. I do the opposite when I am sanding. Loosen it up just enough for the sphere to drop out, rotate it while pushing against the tailstock, then tighten up the tailstock, and this helps avoid 'burnish' marks from the headstock drive. As for a video on my tailstock cup chuck turning, I don't have one, and may do that eventually if I do a video on sphere turning. There are a lot of them out there. Anyway, I got the tailstock center close by inserting the whole thing into my small chuck. I put it in the tailstock and needed to figure a way to spin the tailstock live center, this one the whole thing rotated and some of the newer ones, just the tip rotates. So to drive the live center, I just held the arbor on my drill against the live center, and that was enough spin to be able to take a NRS/negative rake scraper to the roughed out cup center and true it up. I could have used a third or forth arm for doing that, but it worked. Perhaps the O ring on the tailstock center might work better since it gets it close. I have taken to putting a center line on the sphere after rotating it to see how close I am to being perfectly centered. Easy to see the high spot, and if the tailstock is not really tight, then a light tap or two on the high spot will center it better. Always some thing to experiment with. I am mostly a bowl turner....
@ScottsMiniWoodshop6 ай бұрын
@@robohippy that drill trick is inspired! I'd have never thought of that. But reading about your drill trick got me thinking. Those live centers where only the tip spins (Oneway and clones) have a hole that locks with a pin to screw on an off accessories. I wonder what would happen if instead of a pin, it was "locked with some copper wire. Once it's locked I bet it could be put in the headstock/spindle so the cup center could be turned right on that live center. Might need to turn it from the other side of the lathe with the lathe in reverse to deal with the thread direction... Hmmm, something to play around with tomorrow.
@robohippy6 ай бұрын
Now you got me thinking. I do have an old Oneway live center around some where.... I will try that out. In theory, a true mount in the headstock should equal a true mount in the tailstock if they line up....
@ScottsMiniWoodshop6 ай бұрын
@@robohippy that's exactly what I was thinking. Great minds my friend 😁
@WoodworkingbyAsher3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video scott
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks my friend!
@JohnClark-tt2bl3 жыл бұрын
I've seen this done before, but without a lathe. They started with a cube, cut the corners off with a saw, and used a sander to make it round from there.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Sounds interesting
@withOsamaNatto3 жыл бұрын
I am came here from instagram, here is a 👍 for the video, i left the other on instagram comments
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for checking out my channel!
@sapphodesigns23773 жыл бұрын
Great video Scott...question..would you also put an O-ring on the jig at head stock?
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Hi Fifi! You definitely could if you wanted to. It's just not necessary. It's really not necessary for the cup center on the live center either for a wood sphere. The reason I have the O ring on the live center end is for the resin spheres I make.
@thedogsboll5 ай бұрын
wow that's nuts!!!!!! Walnuts😄
@ScottsMiniWoodshop5 ай бұрын
Hahaha.. thanks for watching!
@chulf67 Жыл бұрын
So good.thank you for sharing
@ScottsMiniWoodshop Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@singe19789 ай бұрын
I have not yet found any where that takes you through making the wooden parts that holds the sphere to get rid of the two nubs at either end can you help or advise?
@ScottsMiniWoodshop9 ай бұрын
Sure! Glad to help. They are called cup centers. The one in the chuck is just a piece of scrap turned to shape with a shallow depression. The depression needs to be deep enough so the sphere sits on the rim of the depression. The one for the tailstock is mostly the same thing but with a hole drilled through it so it fits over the live center. Both are really simple shop made items, although you can find commercial cup centers at places that cater to woodturners
@nicholasdimona44238 ай бұрын
Great job where did you buy the live center tap thanks
@ScottsMiniWoodshop8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the question. That live center is made by Robust Lathes. I got the thread pitch from the printed documentation and then just found an appropriate tap on Amazon. The Live Center I use is threaded 3/4 - 10. I've placed a link to the tap I bought below. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FMO8CO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@normtheteacher5485 Жыл бұрын
Good info. Thanks.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching!
@rachelgerrits2 жыл бұрын
Cool! Gonna try this :)
@ScottsMiniWoodshop2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Its definitely not difficult but will take a bit of practice
@celioantonio71963 жыл бұрын
Parabéns pelo trabalho 👏👏👏👏👏👏
@ScottsMiniWoodshop6 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! and Thanks for watching!
@simonlevett47763 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to turn lawn bowls on a lathe ?
@ScottsMiniWoodshop2 жыл бұрын
yes, but the wood should be kiln dried or it will crack while drying
@longdriver22 жыл бұрын
Looks like you've done that before!
@ScottsMiniWoodshop2 жыл бұрын
Once or twice 😁
@joeydrumstix3 жыл бұрын
Hi Scott I was wondering if you would be interested in using your lathe to make a shift lever knob out of oak for my chevy g20 conversion van? It would just be the ball shaped piece on the end of the shift lever for the transmission. I would be happy to pay you. If you're interested I will send you pictures and dimensions!
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Send me an email at smw3747@gmail.com we can chat
@joeydrumstix3 жыл бұрын
@@ScottsMiniWoodshop gotcha . Email sent.
@singe19789 ай бұрын
Thank you so much.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop9 ай бұрын
I'm glad you found the info useful. Thanks for watching!!
@zorz1273 жыл бұрын
7:34 it's a Poke Ball!
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
Soon I'll be casting and turning a poke ball 😁
@zorz1273 жыл бұрын
@@ScottsMiniWoodshop definitely looking forward to it!
@andrewvanness21013 жыл бұрын
Yeah, no need for the comments to get you to laugh about this.
@ScottsMiniWoodshop3 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@doolinmoranphotography44612 жыл бұрын
You said without a jig
@ScottsMiniWoodshop2 жыл бұрын
The video is for woodturners. No sphere jig was used while turning this sphere
@doolinmoranphotography44612 жыл бұрын
@@ScottsMiniWoodshop i didn’t say that there was a sphere jig was used, but the title says (no jig) and there was a jig also I am a Woodturner been doing it 5 years