Saturday, 16 April 2011

Huge Amethyst Ring..

A sneak peek into next job, one more for colin, oversize head and shank for a LARGE amethyst.





This is the stone, usb jack for proportion :)







The shank is not worth going into detail on, just a pic, simple flip cut





SOme pathing imagery

Half the job to be cut



Roughing the rotary pass



Finishing the Rotary Pass



Top Down Roughing



Top Down Finishing





Melt some tube!





Hook some oversize wax into the lathe :)





Surface it



Load into Mill



Roughing





[video=youtube;XJYVsiIG8h4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJYVsiIG8h4[/video]



Roughing COmplete



Finishing Starts





Finishing Finished.. 5 hours later....





Rotate Fixture upwards 90'



Zero out X and Y



Zero out Z



Top roughing



ROughing done!



Change cutter and rezero fo final pass





[video=youtube;ZrQqIWpYYsk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQqIWpYYsk[/video]





Finishing pass done!



Cutoff Profile operation



and she is done.. phewwwwwww



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