Wood Turned Snowflake Sphere Christmas Ornament
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2018
- This year's Christmas ornament project is a walnut and maple sphere with a snowflake pattern at the top and the bottom. The pattern runs through the volume of the sphere. I made the pattern by repeatedly cutting and gluing pieces of walnut and maple to make a snowflake. I then generated two segmented halves to this sphere which I hollowed out. Next, I glued the two halves together and turned the resulting cylinder into a sphere. I really like how the straight lines of this segmented snowflake wrapped themselves around the curve of the sphere and make a new pattern.
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I have zero clue how you saw this glue up in your head. I'm watching it with narration and I am lost.
Too true. My mind is blown.
Don't feel bad Pete. I'm lost too on this. As Frank would cut, glue and repeat, I can see how any pattern would evolve. But, to know that ahead of time baffles me. He just works at a different level than me for sure.
I know right? Of course, you've blown our minds a few times yourself, kind sir.
Love the videos peter
I think there is another video needed here to show the planning process. There is some real spatial genius being displayed here! (Insert nervous chuckle here)
8:47 i know i am two years late to this video
but of pinch of salt on top of the glue and there is no more sliding around
that is an old trick i learned from a woodworking legend
I feel like your kids grew so much this past year. I love your work, but you always tie it into something personal with the stories or quick glimpes of your family. I seriously just hid in the bathroom to watch this video lol. Have a merry Christmas Frank!
Thanks! My son has grown 5 inches a year for the past 2 years.
The hiding in the bathroom, good idea. I had to pause this thing 5 times...
Not only are you a master craftsman, your narration is top-notch. You exude competence.
I have adored watching the kids grow up through these videos. You’re a great dad :)
I would have doubted and procrastinated for six months between each cut! Thanks Frank!
Frank I really enjoy watching you make your $1000 Christmas ornaments lol. On a serious note your kids don't realize it now, but when they are older and get to look back at these videos and see their mom, dad and themselves from each Christmas, it will be truly priceless for them, as will be the box full of ornaments that you made. Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
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2 Hands Maximum Effort WoodWorks this comment made me instantly tear up
Oh snap that's troo! They'll be blown away by this memory trove!
I was beginning to worry we would not have a Christmas decoration build - it’s become a tradition for me to enoy the video! Thank you for everything you do all year long.
Wow, has it really been a year since the last ornament video? This one really flew by.
I've been making things out of wood for more then 35 years. I've been called a master carpenter and woodworker on several occasions. Yet watching you, is humbling, inspiring, and down right exciting. You're making me look at projects and ideas in way that I hadn't considered . So thank you, I'm looking forward to your next project. Merry Christmas.
Yes! Thank you, this is exactly it, to help others see, rethink, and ultimately stand in awe of their own work.
10/10 woodworking skills, 11/10 editing skills
Amazing how well the points of the segments meet 15:15
You are the Bob Ross of woodturning. Love your stuff man!!!
I’m old enough to remember when both your kids couldn’t see over the work table. Another great job guy. Merry Christmas to all
Christmas ornament, for the past few years I've been more excited about seeing Frank, than the man in the red suit. it's lashing rain and just completely bleak out at the moment here in Ireland, but this just made my day, thanks Frank and thanks to your family for letting you out in the workshop for so long.
Such a wholesome and well edited video to be able to watch this Christmas Eve morning
Ethan Croft I agree
Not sure if I'm more impressed with your skill/vision for these projects, or your seemingly never ending supplies of wood slabs for them.
Merry Christmas Frank & Family.
Your stop motion differs you so much from other woodworking channels and that's why you're my new favorite woodworker😂
There is the saying, "Work fascinates me, I can watch it for hours". In this case, it is so true. Love the finished product.
It's wonderful to see the kids grow up a little more each Christmas and their embarrassment levels go up and down as they blossom!
Lots of love to all this holidays 🧡
Im convinced you're a robot, or a genius. Just listening to you talk about the pattern and all the cuts and angles needed, I couldn't see a pattern in my head but you made the thing look flawless. I'm amazed.
I thought I was pretty good with spatial manipulation, but there are some serious mental gymnastics to get to this one. Beautiful piece, thanks for sharing!
Watching the Christmas ornament creation is becoming a bit of a feature of my Christmas. The way your kids have grown shows how long I've been watching. Merry Christmas from a hot sunny New Zealand,
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family Frank.
It's already 4:30 pm here in Germany and Santa will come to town soon. Merry Christmas!
From the Ellison's family.
Merry Christmas and we love you guys.
Merry Christmas...and I see a Grizzly Bandsaw in the background. With bandsaws...the more the merrier.
I could not keep up with all of those angles, but enjoyed watching it and trying. Beautiful work Frank! The kids are growing up. Merry Christmas!
Draw your design out on graph paper. Drawing it double the size needed will help with accuracy when measuring the angles. Or, you could just attack it with mathematics. Or even a combination of both.
Incredible!! Seriously beautiful, and as many others have said, something your family will appreciate for years.
Definitely a complex pattern to make let a lone to describe and show while making. The animation you kept up really helped me follow along.
Merry Christmas. You've come a long way in all your learning, and your kids are all grown now. Time flies so fast
Frank, I wait for each ofyour videos some how hoping they will come out sooner. Then you do a project like this and I know it has been worth the wait. Thank you for a great video, again. Merry Christmas to you and family.
Love the Charlie Brown tree behind your kids.
Beyond human capability. Absolutely excellent. 👍🏻
All of your videos make me say wow at the end of them and they truly are works of art that just take my breather away,
For finishing the sphere, I like to drill three screws through a piece of plywood in a triangle pattern, flip it over so the pointy ends are up, and set the piece on them. You do end up with three little points to touch up when it dries, but when finishing something lightweight (box, sphere, pine derby racer, etc) it's the best way I've found.
Just be sure not to lay the "holding jig" on the floor pointy ends up and accidentally step on it! ;-D
I'm blown away. As always after watching your videos.
Yet another first class project. Thanks for the inspiration Frank.
Frank, you should make it a thing that the year's christmas ornament is always made using the tools, techniques, and jigs you developed or learned this past year. Try to incorporate as many as possible!
Hi Frank,
I build a globe box as a carpenters exam project. The trick is to glue the sphere together with newspaper in between. Then when you're done turning you can break the newspaper. Off course it has it's risks.
Another marvel project. Thanks for letting us watch.
You are a gift to humanity.
Hi Frank,
A little trick for dealing with glue ups that slide around during clamping is to sprinkle a few grains of table salt into the joint.
Bravo Frank..
As a fellow engineer, inventor , and woodworker your visualization regarding the orientation of the individual chords transitioning into segments, and ultimately producing a pattern dependant ,symmetrical sphereoid is both impressive and mentally soothing .
Midway through the video I started to visualize a box design!!!
Possibly a center ring either solid or chords.
Mechanical design mechanism potential.
Incorporate spring loaded plungers that will provide axially clearance, and then mini zero protrusion hinges , possibly a scaled down version of Blum 155 Zero protrusion hinge.
Design in a small rare earth magnet for the catch, or build a leaf spring into the hinge ( aka soft close).
This design would allow the 2 halves to close seamlessly, and then pop up, and then swing away for the hinge mechanism.
Might need to work a weight into a large counterbore in what would be the bottom section...
It's difficult to explain seeing the invisible to folks whom dont have the opportunity to explore that realm. However very rewarding when you can get a young engineer away from Solid Works, and think through a design as if they are machining it from solid material.
Peace and Joy to you and yours..
Another great ornament. Merry Christmas to all the Howarths. Great ending.
I have to say that I really appreciate the work that you are putting in those videos. The after work and "little" things like the animation in the top left corner make your Videos individual. Love it!!
You sir, are a wizard. Keep the magic coming!
Turned out to be absolutely beautiful.
GORGEOUS! Frank your skills blow me away.
Wow. Awesome job Frank. And here I was thinking I had done some nice pieces on the lathe.
Very nice work. When you hollowed out the halves I thought they would make excellent small bowls with the snowflake pattern.
Travail fabuleux de précision et de finesse ! Il y a de la poésie dans chaque projet de cet ébéniste d'art ! Merci monsieur .
Always love watching your wood working videos. I always wanted to do what you do but never have the shop or the time. Really love seeing how you can make something beautiful from a few pieces of wood.
Wow!!! You are crazy smart to figure all these angles out👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. A true work of art
For future reference, if you want to see how a flat pattern will look on a sphere, it's fairly easy to do in sketchup. Just draw a sphere, draw the pattern on a plane where the center matches the sphere's center, extrude the patter into and past the sphere, intersect faces with selection, then delete everything outside of the sphere; this will draw the projection of the pattern onto the sphere, and you'll know what it looks like beforehand.
Xander Zoolander this was my one talent in design school lol. everyone was using a different 3D software that made it difficult to do the pattern extrusion thing you were talking about. meanwhile me in sketchup...the only 3D software i know
Frank wanted to wish you a very merry Christmas.
I'm a recent subscriber that doesn't "woodwork", but enjoys your projects immensely, thank you.
Looking forward to 2019's videos.
Thanks Frank, a pleasure as always with you. Merry Christmas to you as well 👍
Beautiful work, as usual, Frank. Nicely done.
One way to turn the box would be to make a sphere out of some scrap wood and glue the two halves on it just enough to be securely held in as you cut the outside. Removing would work kinda like when you split an avocado in half, twisting the two halves.
This channel could be called “examples of crazy ideas pulled off that prove this guy is a genius”
It's absolutely amazing how you think all this up.
Merry Xmas and thanks for sharing an excellent "Snowflake Sphere Christmas Ornament" video with santa's helpers presenting it
That's the stuff. Well done Frank.
Ken
Magnificent result! Bravo!
Merry Christmas to the Howarth family, thank you for the gift of the past year.
That's amazing, Frank. Very beautiful.
I’m always amazed at how you put the design in the wood before it even gets to the lathe. Great work as always!
Happy and Joyous Christmas to you and your family, Frank!
You Sir, are a genius. Thanks for making such wonderful videos.
Omg! The kids are so big! Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
Just wow! Merry Christmas to you and yours all over the world. Frank thank you and bless you and your family for the wonderful gift you gave us with your talent.
Thanks a lot Frank for your Xmas fix, Love from France
Olivier
Hats off to your creativity frank!!! Awesome 👌👌👌
Beautiful ornament and masterful technique.
Your planning continues to amaze Frank. The only thing I can compare it to is when I think of something crazy and then try to explain what I see to someone else. It's like that lol. Beautiful work as always.
Love the production value of this video. Well done.
Daggum, that's gorgeous!!!
Merry Christmas Frank. As always. Simply Fantastic. I can’t think of a single video you’ve put out that I haven’t loved.
WOW! This is gorgeous! What an amazing keepsake. When that finish went on... POP! Terrific video Frank. Really enjoyed watching that.
to my joy, I checked my subscriptions today and saw a new posting by Frank. This project was outstanding. Merry Christmas to you and your family, good health and good fortune in the new year.
Amazingly precise pattern. Just wow.
Thank you for sharing.
All best.
Another beauty, Frank. I can only dream of having the mathematical skills required for your projects, not to mention your pure talent. I'd beg for lessons if I knew you IRL.
Just noticed... you use the same ribbon every time!!
Frank you truly are magical. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Wow! What are you feeding those kids!?
Could it be corn? 😄
Wood shavings. From the floor.
I don't think you will ever top this - truly amazing concept and execution...
You make fantastic spheres
There is no way I could ever make a sphere like you
I love your videos
You sir are a master at your craft. Mad skills!
This guy is the Bob Ross of wood working
Your videos are absolutely perfect, your voice is calming my mind, you explain what you do and why, the results are amazing and the animation are subtle but show what you are doing 10/10 man!
Yes! Literally waited all year for this! Thank you Frank. Merry Christmas 🎄
Absolutely beautiful Frank. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Frank! We love your videos! Would be fun to have put jingle bells inside the void of the ornament!
Kids are growing! Awesome build Frank, Merry Christmas!
By far one of the best videos I've ever seen on UA-cam!
Wow! Your kids are growing fast! Merry Christmas!
My how the kids have grown!! Glad you didn't resort to that cheap parlor trick of adding salt to a glue joint. Salt makes snowflakes melt. Nice piece young man. Have a Merry Christmas.
Cheers,
-- Joe
High-level artwork....
Thank you for sharing your inspiration.....🙏
Just stunning, Frank! Merry Christmas!
Beautiful design and attack. The snow-flake sphere ornament 'turned' out super nice. Merry Christmas to the Howarth family.
Wild. Awesome work Frank.