As my bandsaw is down at the moment, Im not doing any bowls right at the moment but I did get a call from a friend asking me if I could make her a lazy susan for her dining room table. She has a whole crew of kids and grandkids and enjoys having everyone over for dinner and she thought that a lazy susan might make serving dinner to everyone a lot easier. So here is the process Ive begun:
Normally I make small diameter lazy susans of about 12 inches for use as a serving tray but my friend wants a larger susan of 18 inches in diameter for condiments, napkins, etc, for a number of people. Small susans can be made on the lathe but since my lathes diameter is 12 inches max, I will have to use a pre-made 18 inch pine round table top and make a small pine bottom on the lathe. This presents a number of problems centering the lazy susan bearing directly in the middle of the top board--if the top isnt centered perfectly, the top wont spin in a circle. Instead it will spin in an oval and look terrible. So precision is important here. And since there is no way to see if you have done all the measuring and drilling correctly until its finished and completely assembled, its a rather nerve wracking thing to do.
Here we go:
In the photo below you can see the top, the bottom, the lazy susan bearing which is the silver thing in the middle of the photo and a finial which is the black thing in the photo. My friend has asked for a finial to be placed in the center of the top as both a decoration and to serve as a knob for turning the susan. So I made one out of solid pine on the lathe and as finials are usually black in color, I stained it with an ebony colored stain.
Here is a photo of the screw holes being drilled. I had to use a large drill bit to allow a drill bit to pass through the bottom and screw the screws into the bearing and into the top. (yes, I know its confusing. And this is a photo of my new drill press--Ive named it Nico in honor of a young cousin in California. A lovely chap.).
Here are the holes that have been drilled through the bottom.
Centering the top on the bottom:
I drilled a hole about 1/4 inche into the top section and then I took the drill bit and drilled it through the bottom section and left just a tiny bit of the bit sticking out of the surface:
I used this drill bit as a guide and was able to drop it into the hole on the top section. Here is the entire thing centered:
Next, Ill put the finish on. My friend wants the sections stained a very deep burgundy color to match some wall paper in her kitchen so now Im going to disassemble the whole thing and seal the pine to prevent blotching. I also need to finish the finial and drill a hole in the top for it to fit into to.
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