Cherry Burl Hollow Form - A first for me.

[Peter Fabricius]

Very nice HF Rich!
Also nice of your wife to let you buy the Monster.
I can see how the hole needs to be bigger for the 3/4" bar, but it is easy to make smaller and specially shaped bars to fit the smaller holes.
See the attached pic of one I made for my Monster, the cutter is 3/16" metal lathe shaped to a round scraper. Works perfectly and goes all the way to the edge under a wide rim.
Peter F.

[Jon Nuckles]

Excellent form and really beautiful. Amazing first effort!

[Dok Yager]

Very nice Rich! Good form and Beautiful piece of wood. Pen blanks would have been a huge waste of a gorgeous hunk of wood.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Rich, you already know my comments... you planning on bringing this to the club meeting? Would be a whole lot easier to offer a critique while holding it.

For the smaller pieces I turn, I took my Sorby 3/8" swan neck. I removed the handle and it fit my Monster systems perfectly! Thing is, even with the Monster system, the 3/8" bar will get a lot of vibration - so take very light cuts!

[Rich Aldrich]

Steve,

I do plan on bringing it to the meeting. I have a swan neck that I bought with the monster, but it is 3/4" diameter. Thanks for the tip on Sorby. Either I will buy one and modify it or try to make one like it.