Turning and Piercing a Christmas Tree Ornament

(4) finishing up

A skew is used to give a bevel to the edge of the top, friction polish is applied

and the piece is reversed in the chuck.
The top is shaped with a 1/4" Oland tool with a long edge, sanded, finished with turner's polish, and an eye ring screwed in.
In a similar manner, the bottom is turned, sanded and finished. Here the idea is to give an impression of icicles forming as water runs down the bottom tip.
Thus we have three pieces waiting for glue up. I like to use a five minute epoxy although I find it takes more like 30 to set up.
Here is the final result.
Meanwhile, here are a few other ornaments that I have turned. The ball on the ball and icicle is hollow for weight reduction and the icicles are great skew practice.

If you make one please let me know how it turned out.