A Rocket is Born!
I got the rocket carved for the Orrery that we're making!!!! Yay!!! It was cold though, but not raining. You can see me all bundled up. I actually have three shirts on and two pairs of sweatpants, and gloves. I'm coated with sawdust, as is everything else. It gets in my hair, up my nose and under my contacts, but it's actually a lot of fun to get so messy and see something come out of nothing.
The section I'm working on is the top of the rocket. The wide section to my right is the part where the fins will come out. I haven't carved them yet. The dark lines that I'm cutting in the photo is the separations of the sections. I carved the smooth shape of the rocket first and then put in the marking of where the rocket will be cut into 10 pieces.
Turning the Rocket on the Lathe
So after the rocket is carved and sanded, then it is cut into the pieces that can rotate on their own. I'll then take each one of the pieces and drill a hole in the center to hold the tube that goes down to the gearing. Complicated huh? Yes, it makes my brain tired if I think of too many sections of it at a time. I'll most likely start carving the fins tomorrow and figuring out the gearing system (yikes!).
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Peace,
Joy
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Tags: carving, lathe, orrery, rocket, woodturning, woodworking
February 17th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
What an amazing job as an artist! Glad you brought me here from Twitter. Will go explore your site.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:07 am
[...] rocket was turned out of solid cherry wood in much the same manner as the legs. You can read about it in three short posts on Joy’s Blog. Once it was ready and the tubes had been assembled to their respective [...]