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Two of the most important things about making an urn is the volume and size. The cremation urns capacity is measure in cubic inches. Calculating the volume needed is a simple process. For example, if an individual weighs 180 pounds at the time of cremation, they will require an urn 180 cubic inches or larger. Similarly, if a pet weighs

30 pounds at the time of cremation, they will require an urn 30 cubic inches or larger.

That will give you the basics for calculating the size. Calculating the capacity of a turned urn may be a bit more difficult. Mike Mahoney goes into detail in this on his Video Hollow Forms and Urns.

Fred Holder

Thank you for your response Fred. You gave me a starting point and that's a big help. Now all I have to do is the math.

Bob Crawford

Two of the most important things about making an urn is the volume and size. The cremation urns capacity is measure in cubic inches. Calculating the volume needed is a simple process. For example, if an individual weighs 180 pounds at the time of cremation, they will require an urn 180 cubic inches or larger. Similarly, if a pet weighs

30 pounds at the time of cremation, they will require an urn 30 cubic inches or larger.

That will give you the basics for calculating the size. Calculating the capacity of a turned urn may be a bit more difficult. Mike Mahoney goes into detail in this on his Video Hollow Forms and Urns.

Fred Holder

It's also (apparently from the video) important to make the urn's lid, threaded :-)

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Measuring the capacity once made is quite simple. Fill with dry sand pour the sand into a measuring jug with a metric scale 1 litre ==1000cm3 and convert to cubic inches.

Another thought on this...

One of our club members made an urn for his wife just before her passing.

He found out that not all cemeteries would accept urns. He also found out that there were certain specifications for those that hold human ashes, as well as specs for sealing them.

While keeping in mind the good suggestions above for caculating volume, you should probably check with the funeral home and cemetery that will handling and keeping the urn.

Robert

Bill Grumbine has an article on his site about turning an urn. The URL is:

Ted J

The state the deceased lives in could make a difference.. In California, the place that does the cremation has to deliver the remains in a sealed container, which then goes into the urn, so that would really determine minimum size..

I don't know if other states just give you the Loose ashes or not, but that would be gross, too.. "Ashes" does NOT describe what's left after cremation.. DAMHINT

mac

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Thanks John, that's a good idea!

Bob Crawford

Very informative! Thanks a lot!

Bob Crawford

Alabama appeasers to be very forgiving in this area.

Thanks a bunch!

Thanks so much for the reply. The family will be keeping the Urn, so that won't be a problem. According to the folks at the funeral home, the choice of the urn is entirely the families. They plan to seal the urn with a combination of wax and glue and I'm taking that into consideration for the design.

Bob Crawford

Not too gross for everyone...

...he did deny it later.

With Comcast and other large ISPs dropping usenet newsgroups and apparently other's reducing the number of newsgroups they carry - and noting that the number of postings here has dropped off significantly lately - but rec.woodworking is still going strong

- perhaps a migration to that group might be a possibility.

If posts to that group had "Turning" as the first word in the subject line, those only interested in turning could find messages only related to turning quickly - though still have to download the rest to find them.

Just something to consider.

charlie b

Change news ISPs.

- free news service, not as flaky as most free news service, and you can post (I am right now).

Much of the dropoff is likely due to people not finding their way to usenet at all when providers yank it, and few new people finding it. Then it accelerates when people that can still get it don't want to bother with those people gone, and go away themselves.

em, no... But then I recall when "the wreck" was the ONLY woodworking "forum" there was, and it got 200+ posts, -every- single day.

But then, I also ran the "split" straw poll for rec.woodworking (which failed).

If they're dropping any group in the rec.* hierarchy they'll be dropping all of them.

Get a cheap account at individual.net.

More than half the posts on rec.woodworking are off-topic political crap or sexual jokes anyway.

there are many free news servers, terranews and motzarella are both pretty good - just sign up for one of them - there is no reason to allow corporate idiots to force you do abandon something you enjoy

Depends on how important newsgroups are to you, I guess.. I subscribe to and read several, so it's more than worth the $3 a month for APN..

mac

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Or Giganews.com I have the cheapest, $2.99 per month, account that allows up to 3 gig. In 3 months I have yet to use "Point 1 %" of the monthly allotment.