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Intersecting Rings

Could have been totally carved. I break one ring and place it around the good ring and glue back together. Done well you cant see the joint. I sent an article in to the journal on turning captured rings and included a lesson on broken rings.
 
Agree with John, It could well have been turned and then carved, I recall not all that long ago, there was a chain goblet selected as turning of the week, and the creator stated they had turned the form/shape on the lathe, then carved the chain links by hand after the basic outer shape of the links had been turned (along with the goblet and foot) It takes a little thought to wrap your head around it, but if you see the actual rough shape profile of the turned piece before the carving is done, it suddenly makes sense..
 
Wood carving a chain is a fairly old technique and if you google "wood carving a chain" or visit a local wood carving club you can see how it is done. The links are always elongated (just like a real steel chain) such that the individual links can be separated from each other and the grain orientation will be 90 degrees off on consecutive links. The rings in the photo have identical grain orientation and there in not enough difference in size of the hole and the size of the ring to allow them to have been carved/separated from one piece of wood. The most likely way to accomplish that as far as I can see is that one ring must have been broken and glued back together around the other one. Back in the 1970s I made chain using the standard technique where you start with a square length of wood, cut the corners out so the piece has a cross section like a + sign.
 
Don Wattenhofer said:
Wood carving a chain is a fairly old technique and if you google "wood carving a chain" or visit a local wood carving club you can see how it is done. The links are always elongated (just like a real steel chain) such that the individual links can be separated from each other and the grain orientation will be 90 degrees off on consecutive links. The rings in the photo have identical grain orientation and there in not enough difference in size of the hole and the size of the ring to allow them to have been carved/separated from one piece of wood. The most likely way to accomplish that as far as I can see is that one ring must have been broken and glued back together around the other one. Back in the 1970s I made chain using the standard technique where you start with a square length of wood, cut the corners out so the piece has a cross section like a + sign.
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I disagree about not having enough space to free the rings when carving. I've carved a chain and had less space than that.
 
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There was a meeting of the International Wood Collector's Society, or some name like that, here in town a number of years back. They all had link chains of all their different woods. It was pretty impressive.

robo hippy
 
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