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What’s on your lathe?

Phil Hamel said:
I was given an older very dry piece of birch recently. Tried the new electric chainsaw and finished on the band saw. Will be on the lathe later this week.
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Nice!!

One of my favorite things to do is cut blanks and air dry them (for months or years, whatever it takes)
Cut a few hundred lbs of water maple for a friend just a couple of days ago for him to take home and dry.
If you are out wandering around someday and find yourself in TN, stop by for a visit and take some dry blanks home!
 
James Seyfried said:
This elm burl has quit loosing weight so it's time to finish it. The bowl is about 12" and pictured on the lathe I wiped it of with mineral spirits to show off the burl. There are a few voids close to the rim, I didn't fill them with epoxy, but one that seemed a little sketchy for breaking was reinforced with epoxy on the inside of the void. Because of the different voids I left the thickness at about 1/2".

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I decided to carve little feet for the base (go figure). Got a ways to go; I use the tape as a guide that I'm getting close the bowl and reduce scratches to sand out.

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I’d Love to see a step by step of how you do your feet. They’re always perfect.
 
Ok. A couple of things recently on the lathe. First a lidded bowl, figured sap maple bowl, birdseye brown maple lid with a finial of English walnut burl. The finial could have been a touch more delicate, but the burl was a bit fragile in spots. Second, small box in white oak with a yellowheart lid and ebony knob. Last two, lidded bowl; bowl is maple with a bit of spalting, walnut lid with an ash finial and finally a white oak box with birdseye maple lid and ebony knob.

Cheers.

Barry W. Larson
Calgary, Alberta, Canada eh!
 

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Past 1am here and just coming in from the shop......been a long day! :)

Maple burl.....Mother Nature wows us sometimes! :)

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Kent Reisdorph said:
Little known fact. Persimmon heartwood is black. There's just never much of it. This piece of wood came from the base of the tree when my daughter in law cut the stump off close to the ground. I'm not crazy about the form. Maybe Crown Royal will be interested. 😂

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Continue that form curve down to the tenon and it will be great (IMHO).
 
Kent Reisdorph said:
Persimmon heartwood is black. There's just never much of it.
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Most of the persimmon I’ve cut and processed had black heartwood not much bigger than a fat pencil lead. Every once in a while I’ll get a piece where the black is bigger, or fans out into a larger area for a short distance. (FWIW, Persimmon is a type of ebony, some other names for it are American Ebony and White Ebony.

Persimmon | The Wood Database (Hardwood)

www.wood-database.com www.wood-database.com

JKJ
 
Gerald Lawrence said:
Just remove bark and the wood exterior will turn black. It is disturbing when you first see it
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Yikes, I have NEVER see that in persimmon I’ve cut here (a lot). The wood stays white unless cut in the summer when fungus can get started, then I see streaks and grey.

I’ve cut a lot of persimmon into blanks for drying. I think it’s wonderful to turn.

Here are a couple of meat tenderizers I made from dried Persimmon a few months ago. Like most species, it the wood does gradually darken a little with time. The one on the right shows a case of significant black heartwood, rare in the persimmon trees I’ve cut.

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JKJ
 
Another piece in butternut
Leading up to the challenge to make a tall deep calabash I rough turned three in butternut so I was looking at the 2 left over and thought they might look good with a screw on lid. The main body is one piece turned on the pith and the lid is 8 layers of 4 segments with a Brazilian rosewood finial. The thread is 8 TPI X 6.5" and the female thread is reinforced with CA but the male thread being side grain no CA was needed. The piece measures 7" diameter X 15" high with the lid.
The next step will be to put a finish on it probably DO & wax.
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