Made by yours truly

[Daerir]

Well toward the end of the year, I decided to make myself an awesome mug out of different woods and well I did

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Its alternating Walnut and Oak with a walnut handle. I turned the whole thing on a lathe and finished it with epoxy resin on the inside.

[Peter Remling]

Very nice.

[RikJohnson]

I've always wanted to do something like that but failed consistantly.

[Eledhwen]

Very nicely done!

Eledhwen

[Manveruon]

Wow, that's beautiful! You wouldn't maybe want to give us a little run-through of how you did it, would you?

[Daerir]

Wow, that's beautiful! You wouldn't maybe want to give us a little run-through of how you did it, would you?

Sure thing!!
Firstly, all that is just the scrap pieces I dug out of the scrap bucket at school. I borrowed the teachers coffee mug he had in his office to draw circles on the scrap pieces. That was my rough sizing. I cut out the circles very very roughly on the band saw and trued them up on the belt sander.

Once I had the discs, I set a walnut aside. I took the rest over to the drill press and just guess-timated the center and drilled a hole out of the disc to shorten lathe time. I probably could have done this a more efficient way but I was just going off what I thought would work, no plans.

After I drilled completely through all the discs save one, I glued them together, lining the holes inside up by feel. Clamped it and let it sit.

While it was drying, I cut out a paper "handle" stencil to trace onto a piece of walnut. I cut it out with a scrollsaw, shaped it better on the belt sander and a spindle sander then rounded the entire handle on the router table with a round-over bit.

After the mug part was dry, I took the entire piece over to the belt sander to make the outside even. I basically made it round on the belt sander but it was only as circular as I could assume. Once there were no ledges between the discs, I put the clamp chuck in the lathe and attached the mug. Using a gouge, I rounded the outside until it was circular.

For the inside I really only used the skew chisel. I would cut into the hole down the center and just thin out the "wall" of the mug. Just keeping at it I eventually got it to the width I desired and moved to sanding. I sanded the outside with 80, then 150, then 220 then did the same to the inside but only with the sandpaper attached to a dowel rod haha.

After it was all sanded, I taped a piece of 80 grit to the outside really tightly and sanded a rounded dip into the parts of the handle that attach to the rest of the mug. I glued it on and clamped it over night.

Once it was all together, I bought epoxy resin to waterproof the inside best. I applied 2 coats to the inside and just used a regular wipe on polyurethane on the outside (3 coats, sanded with steel wool between coats). That was really it. I applied the epoxy resin by spinning it continuously until it was all good and coated then just let the excess settle on the bottom.

[Greg]

That's pretty awesome!

[Ringulf]

Very nicely done my friend that is a mug to be proud of and it would be an awsome peice for that early morning beverage as you scoll through the posts!