Cocobolo wedding goblet

[Fred Conte]

Curt - Congrats to your daughter - that goblet is beautiful!

Thanks for the explanation on the rings...very nice work.

[Tom Keen]

Many happy days for you and your family, Congrats!

[Keith Burns]

Curt, you are the Goblet Master ! Excellent piece!

[Dave Chrudimsky]

Thanks everyone!

Donn, I cut the rings using a skew for the outside and a homemade tool for the inside. There's actually two tools, one cuts from the left and one from the right, and they're made from a couple of cheap harbor freight right angle screw drivers. To interlock them you carefully break one of the rings, spread it over the other and glue it back with a small drop of CA.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachme...5&d=1156011487

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachme...5&d=1156013545

Being new to this board, and not having turned anything in my life, but getting ready to try out my new-to-me lathe, I had to look up how to make captive interlocking rings on the internet. Of course it was straight forward, and I thought pretty cool. Then, as I was looking at the goblet again I kept thinking, gosh, what if something went wrong while breaking one of the rings?

Well, Duh! Use redundancy and eventually get rid of the ones you don't need when you're done! Thanks for the pictures - they answer questions that I didn't even know I had. Even some of the most elemental things don't get in until someone uses a 2x4 on my skull.

-chrud

[Brian McInturff]

That's a beaut Curt. And congrats on the new SIL.

[Ben Gastfriend]

As always, great work. I'm sure they'll love it. Great captive rings too!