Captive Goblet

Love it.....only for people who can't put there drink down!
Welcome to the forum, Heather.

Tom Gall said:

Love it.....only for people who can't put there drink down!
Welcome to the forum, Heather.

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Thanks, Tom!

O.K...this caused a brain cramp....any chance you can refer me to an article or better - a video of HOW you did this? Fascinating!
Thanks
T

Tim Tucker said:

O.K...this caused a brain cramp....any chance you can refer me to an article or better - a video of HOW you did this? Fascinating!
Thanks
T

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Haha, sorry for the brain cramp! Yes, this is all from a single piece, and no, there’s no trickery with glue. The secret is that I turned the goblet and left a little meat to carve on the stem, so to speak. To start the chain, I carved four channels into the stem so that the cross-section would look like an “X”. From there, I removed more material to define the three links, the central link rotated 90 degrees from the top and bottom links. Once the outside chain contour was defined, it was just a matter of carefully removing the interior of the links and setting them loose, then sanding. Carving a chain is sort of a feather in the cap for a whittler in the same way turning a captive ring is for a woodturner. When I dreamed this up, I was thinking about how (sometimes) there is tension between art and craft, especially in an activity like woodturning, and so sometimes form ends up subverting function.

If I can get my phone to cooperate (I’m new to forum, just figuring things out), I’ll post some of my process pics for you.

That would be wonderful so see progress pics.
Thanks!
T

Tim Tucker said:

That would be wonderful so see progress pics.
Thanks!
T

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Unless I'm seeing things incorrectly, I can only embed hyperlinks to photos, not upload files directly from my device, so I'll have to find a work-around before I can post my own process pics.

So instead I have found a helpful YouTube video. The gentleman starts with square stock but I started with round (because... lathe...), but the principle is the same. He uses a knife, but I used a micro carver... but again the principles are the same. Hope this helps! View: https://youtu.be/AyGr6wrhDvw

That is fantastic! Very interesting concept. I have to say that I'm a little jealous you thought about it and I didn't.