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General Category => Brag Forum => Topic started by: bzeyher on September 09, 2012, 09:22:16 am

Title: Hourglass
Post by: bzeyher on September 09, 2012, 09:22:16 am

I finally completed my hourglass that I wanted to do when I saw Steve Good?s pattern.
Unfortunately the 9 inch hourglass was no longer available but I was able to modify the pattern to use the 11 inch hourglass from Rockler.

The glass nipple was a bit too long for the ? inch thick top and bottom and I had no ? inch stock. For this reason I simply drilled through the wood and placed a 1/8 inch thick walnut piece to hide the hole. This also made it easier to sand the top and bottom round with a rotary sander and a simple jig.

I used ? inch blood wood and finished it with mineral oil.

Thanks for looking
Billy

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Post by: frankorona on September 09, 2012, 09:29:22 am

Awesome job, very well done

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Post by: Billy in Va on September 09, 2012, 09:42:07 am

Nice Work. Glad you didn't let the part change stop you.

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Post by: Intarsia92 on September 09, 2012, 09:56:00 am

The hourglass turned out great. Looks beautiful.

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Post by: Al W on September 09, 2012, 10:43:11 am

Really nice looking and a fine job.  Thanks for sharing with us. 

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Post by: dgman on September 09, 2012, 10:43:18 am

Nice work Billy!

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Post by: Russ C on September 09, 2012, 11:08:57 am

Looks fantastic, a real nice job. Thanks for sharing.  :)

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Post by: newfie on September 09, 2012, 12:08:37 pm

looks great thanks for sharing

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Post by: Tomsunnu on September 09, 2012, 12:25:02 pm

Billy ,great cutting!looks fantastic!
Mahendra

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Post by: daliclimbs on September 09, 2012, 01:45:44 pm

Came out great! Very nice work!

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Post by: mickey357 on September 09, 2012, 03:45:01 pm

You got my vote,Looks Great.

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Post by: Reaper on September 09, 2012, 09:17:36 pm

Good job. Very nice....

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Post by: smitty0312 on September 10, 2012, 08:39:14 am

Beautiful work!!

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Post by: Coffeepot on September 10, 2012, 10:18:13 am

That's pretty.  Is that how you time the hours you work in your shop?  ;)

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Post by: bzeyher on September 10, 2012, 10:23:24 am

Thanks for all the nice comments.

My first idea was to use it with my grandchildren: when the sand runs out it it bedtime :-)
My trial runs resulted in me falling asleep, I guess it does work  :D

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Post by: Keefie on September 10, 2012, 11:21:54 am

very nice work, it turned out great

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Post by: jlatorre on September 11, 2012, 10:11:22 pm

very nice work Billy ,thanks for sharing

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Post by: troy_curtis on September 12, 2012, 01:16:11 am

That is pretty cool. I saw the plans for the hour glass, but didnt know where to get the hour glass part by itself. Your project turned out very nice and especially impressed you compensated for size difference. Thanks for showing it.

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Post by: Marcellarius on September 12, 2012, 12:37:41 pm

this is a really great project!! like the wood.

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Post by: wombatie on September 13, 2012, 03:13:06 am

Very nice work and I too love the wood you used.

Marg