With the blank ready to work on the lathe, it's time to turn the inside. As it turns out, there isn't any magical, tiny lathe that woodturners place inside the blank after all. That would be some massive cylinder big enough to machine on the inside! For an inside out ornament at this stage, the inside is currently on the outside. You'll have to use a little imagination to understand by seeing only the negative space. What isn't there is what you'll see better when this is finished. After this all that fibre tape comes off and each of the four pieces is turned completely around and this time glued together. Whatever changes, corrections, or fixes are needed has to happen before glue-up. When the pieces are glued together you get the middle example in the photo above. It's much clearer now what I mean by what isn't there becomes more visible.
The exterior silhouette is turned, finish applied, and voila! The biggest question now is if you'll hang it with string, thread, ribbon, or a hook. Decisions, decisions. I hope this series was enjoyable for you and you learned something new. Happy holidays.
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