Turning Finishing Touches To My Easter Diorama

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This project is the culmination of several projects. It is a diorama with a theme of Jesus Christ's resurrection. It consists of a tray, a star, a tomb, a wire tree, and a miniature statue of Jesus Christ.
This video details the tomb, a segmented project with eight segment rings with segment counts from six to twenty segments. The variance in segments enables aligning joints at each half ring. Then by aligning this joint from ring to ring, it can be sawn in half and have a full segment on each half bowl. Recently, for an oval bowl, the half bowls were glued together to form an oval bowl. The tomb represents the empty tomb after the resurrection. The wood is maple. This is an evolution of previous video titled "Turning Oval Bowl With Basic Tools - Segmented (Or Solid)" ( • Turning Oval Bowl With... )
The miniature statue of Jesus Christ is a replica of the Christus by Danish sculpturor, Bertel Thorvaldsen. This is available at Amazon and other stores.
The wire tree consists of 27 strands of 22 gauge brass wire with five different finishes. The wire is wrapped together to form the tree and root system. As the limbs branch out, the wire count is reduced. At the end of each wire, a clear bead is attached. The tree is mounted to a piece of carved wood for stability. Wire from Amazon
The tray is bloodwood as shown in the project titled "Turning My Tray (Not A Platter??)". The choice of bloodwood was appropriate since Jesus Christ's blood was shed for us.
The star is maple as shown in the project titled "Turning 8 Point 3 Axis Star - Best Yet" ( • Turning 8 Point 3 Axis...
) The star represents the celestial star which signaled His birth.
The complete diorama will be displayed in an Easter exhibit.
Enjoy.
p.s. If you would like a more in depth demonstration than my weekly videos, please contact me for an IRD (Zoom Demo) on this or other topics.
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[@glencrandall7051]

Beautiful. Thank you Alan.🙂🙂

[@AsWoodTurns]

You are very welcome Glen
Alan

[@williamellis8993]

Really nice, Alan. Thanks for the explanation of the symbolisms.
Bill

[@AsWoodTurns]

You are welcome Bill
Alan

[@jackthompson5092]

Beautiful Alan.

[@AsWoodTurns]

Many thanks! Jack
Alan

[@garyjanes2358]

Excelllent!

[@AsWoodTurns]

Thank you
Alan

[@KjellNN]

Nice and interesting Alan!

[@AsWoodTurns]

Glad you enjoyed it
Alan

[@LewisKauffman]

Thanks, Alan! I thought maybe the tree was a Dogwood

[@AsWoodTurns]

Perhaps. :)
Alan

[@paullayden]

Hi Allen, I have a lathe with a lever for speed control, is there a way to slow it down, right now my slowest speed is 700 rpm, I can turn at this speed as long as the piece is balanced.

[@AsWoodTurns]

I only need a slower speed for thread chasing and seriously unbalanced pieces. I am not an engineer and the only way I can think of would be to replace either the pulleys(if there) or the motor.
However, before that, consider adding ballast to the lathe and/or an electric chainsaw to trim the project more closely.
Better yet, talk to people in your local club.
Alan

[@paullayden]

@@AsWoodTurns Thanks Allen