Need a break from the normal single axis symetry of your usual pieces?
Occassionally get bored with turning circles? Sure, you're turning profiles with nice "fair curves", interesting profiles and perfect proportions - but every cross section is - ROUND.
Round & Brown - plates, bowls, hollow forms, spindles, finials - those are all fun to turn. But after a while . . . just ROUND ain't enough.
Wings are interesting - challenging - and a bit dangerous - especially the way Jimy Clewes turns them - at 3,800 rpms. But even winged pieces are still turned on just ONE axis - a single axis of symetry.
You've probably seen Escoulen's Multi-Axis turnings - and wondered HOW IN THE HELL CAN HE DO THAT!?
Maybe you've tried multi-axis turning - but your results seem to be so unpredictable. Multi-axis turning seems so chaotic - I Wanted THIS - but - I Got THAT. Trying to work out multi-axis CAUSE & EFFECT can give you a headache?
So you abandoned playing with multi-axis turning - too complicated - too confusing - too unpredictable - too CHAOTIC.
OK - so maybe I'm the ONLY one who had that experience ; )
Well - someone has FINALLY started bringing ORDER OUT OF MULTI-AXIS CHAOS - and has put together a Systematic Method of connecting CAUSE with EFFECT - that's understandable. Mre importantly - YOU can APPLY it
- and start GETTING the results you WANT.
The person you want to thank for bringing order to the apparent chaos of multi-ais turning is - Barbara Dill. After first seeing multi-axis turning being done back in 1993, she recently (over the last three or four years) began developing a systematic method of thinking about multi-axis Cause & Effect - a mental model of how multi-axis turning works - what does what, how and why.
Here's the link to her website. Check out her Gallery: Multi-Axis Work
- and then download and go through her Multi-Axis Paper.