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Tom Kamila

Tom Kamila

Tom Kamila

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31 years ago I was a very active member of the AAW. In fact I created the First National Exhibition of the AAW at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg MA. My work was represented by del Mano gallery in Los Angeles. and other great galleries.
I was a carpenter by trade and woodturning was my passion but when I became a vocational teacher in 1992 I realized I couldn't do both. All my energy needed to go towards my new vocation. Teaching high school students to become skilled at carpentry for entry level jobs drew creative water from the same well my woodturning did. I couldn't do both! I always wanted return to woodturning when I had something new to say creatively. In the mean time I built many houses with my vocational students, built a cat boat for sailing out of Salem Harbor, learned timber framing, built a Dobsonian telescope with my son, built RC sail planes, built a log cabin sauna from logs of my land and built guitars. All the time side eyeing what was happening in woodturning. Ten years into my retirement at ripe old age of 75 it finally hit me, something new to say as a woodturner. That was a long wait of about 31 years! I'm so glad to be back!
 
Interesting pieces! It’d be nice to learn a little about your technique (unless it’s a secret!)

Turning the outside of a solid piece of wood square or otherwise non-round using off-axis methods is historically referred to as a form of “therming”, of course.

The late Brian Horais did a lot of this but he was well known to sequence the axes to make even square surfaced pieces twisted. (I have some of his pieces) However, non-round boxes, vases, and such done with this technique usually have round interiors, made after the outside is done. This guy in the video embedded at the end of this message does that, turning four pieces at once, presumably for balance.

However, what you’ve shown appears to be done in four separate parts to shape the inside “square” as well (or made with a single large turning cleverly cut and reassembled) - nice idea! Turned from one large blank with the right radius might even result in more than one piece. Just wild guessing!

(The video referred to above, just the first one I found with a google search)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhW7JSDI1Mw


JKJ
 
John K Jordan said:
Interesting pieces! It’d be nice to learn a little about your technique (unless it’s a secret!)

Turning the outside of a solid piece of wood square or otherwise non-round using off-axis methods is historically referred to as a form of “therming”, of course.

The late Brian Horais did a lot of this but he was well known to sequence the axes to make even square surfaced pieces twisted. (I have some of his pieces) However, non-round boxes, vases, and such done with this technique usually have round interiors, made after the outside is done. This guy in the video embedded at the end of this message does that, turning four pieces at once, presumably for balance.

However, what you’ve shown appears to be done in four separate parts to shape the inside “square” as well (or made with a single large turning cleverly cut and reassembled) - nice idea! Turned from one large blank with the right radius might even result in more than one piece. Just wild guessing!

(The video referred to above, just the first one I found with a google search)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhW7JSDI1Mw


JKJ
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John I turn a large diameter piece then cut sections out of it and reassemble them into the faceted piece as pictured below. Since the original post above I have met Lowell Converse who invented a process he calls Los wood segmented turning. He and I use the same geometric principal but our techniques are very different.
 

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Tom Kamila said:
John I turn a large diameter piece then cut sections out of it and reassemble them into the faceted piece as pictured below. Since the original post above I have met Lowell Converse who invented a process he calls Los wood segmented turning. He and I use the same geometric principal but our techniques are very different.
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Seems like cutting the angles would be the tricky part. The inside of the lid shows you do this well!
 
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