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Very cool, Pat. Love the concept and execution. Hand threading all of those inserts is impressive.

Thanks Michael, got to develop a few new skills on this one. Hand chasing is pretty fun once you get the hang of it.

Very interesting piece Pat! I am interested how you held the piece to make that many equal-sized facets!

Ethan Hoff said:

Very interesting piece Pat! I am interested how you held the piece to make that many equal-sized facets!

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Ethan Hoff said:

Very interesting piece Pat! I am interested how you held the piece to make that many equal-sized facets!

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I built a donut chuck for the drilling and to make the groove for the coffee inlay and used my cone live center to line the piece up in the chuck before I tightened it down. The cones were turned (and then turned a second time) with the threaded insert already attached and the I just eyeballed to get them as close as I could. I made a threaded chuck to hold them as I turned them to keep them centered. This piece added many new tricks to the bag 😂.

Your great effort shines through in this piece Pat!

Russ Braun said:

Your great effort shines through in this piece Pat!

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Thanks Russ