I want to shape a chunk of wood into something resembling a sphere, and I have an idea that I could do this using a motorized lazy susan and a carbide toothed shaping wheel.
I roughed out the shape of the chunk maybe five or six years ago with a chainsaw and then it lay in the corner since, until this week when I got a shaping disc and went at it. It looks more like a large pumpkin than a round thing.
So I had an idea that if I secured it to a rotating base I could control the disc shaping better, and I knocked around an idea with a machinist friend on how to make this, but I wondered if there is something out there already suited to this, or adaptable. The rpms should be pretty low, I'm thinking maybe 30 rpm, but that's based on zero experience, so if any of you have other ideas I'm open to them.
The wood pumpkin is about 20" in diameter, and is easily liftable, so it's not too heavy.
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