Dabbled with multi axes turning quite a while back and, while it was interesting, it was a hit or miss things. Sometimes I'd get a piece that was interesting - but usually the results were so-so or just plane ugly. Trying to evolve a multi axes piece appeared to me to be impossible, with what II'd figured out about the process at the time. I tried making connections between Cause & Effect - with limited success. I kept thinking I HAD TO turn to full ROUND on each axis - round cross sections.
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After a while I found something else to try - and dropped multi axes turning.
Then Barbara Dill started writing articles on her structured approach to multi axes turning and provided some key AH HA! insights
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To see her paper on her structured approach to multi axes "between centers" turning, go here and download the PDF file, print it up and go through it. It's here:
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Recently, as a result of a collaboration of Barbara Dill, Peter Rand (who's doing some very artistic multi axes pieces) and I, I started playing with Google's SketchUp to create virtual 3D models of two axes fundamentals. In the process,put together some web pages on multi axes concepts and have startedto develop a way to DESIGN two axes pieces in SketchUp. That stuff is here:
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Comments, suggestions for improving this info, etc. are welcomed. charlie b
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