latest goblet

[Eric Harvey]

I`ve just turned a micro goblet in Purple Heart with a captive ring,I took the pics with a 5P coin with the goblet to show the scale of the turning,smallest one I`ve made thus far,cheers,Eric.
ps,its 8mm tall and 3 1/2 mm acrossthe stem is 3/4mm thick

[Bryan Milham]

Now that's small...

A well achieved turning.

I'd suggest you've pushed purpleheart as far as you can, the openness of the grain is almost too large for the goblet. You'll be looking for a finer grained timber for your next one.

[Eric Harvey]

yes,didn`t notice that till I took the close up pics,have some ebony and blackwood,might need an even smaller skew chisel though,was having trouble getting in for the captive ring with the 1/8" skew.

[bodrighywood]

When I was doing things like this for dolls houses I used dental pics to get inside the captive rings. Used carefully you can get really small details. Lot's of fun to do.

Pete

[Eric Harvey]

that`s a good idea I can adapt my old dental tools from when I was a Dental Technician,cheers,

Eric.

[hughie]

Hmm the bottle of wine is sure gonna last with these ... lol 

[Bryan Milham]

Eric,

something else you can try/use are masonry nails, they are great for really small homemade tools.

[Eric Harvey]

I use masonary nails,but the ones I have are the same thickness as my 3mm spindle gauge and 3mm skew from Robert Sorby,the Sorby tools last alot longer between sharpening than masonary nails to,so save time,just need a 1.5mm skew now and I`m sorted haha.