Marc:
Great piece, and an even better back-story! Always good to take a quick look back to see how far we've come.
Cheers.
Barry W. Larson
Calgary, Alberta, Canada eh!
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Great piece, and an even better back-story! Always good to take a quick look back to see how far we've come.
Cheers.
Barry W. Larson
Calgary, Alberta, Canada eh!
Beautiful piece Marc, I wish my first pieces were that nice, as I did some turning before I went into the Royal Dutch Navy, I went right back to it after getting out, and the big old engine lathe was still waiting for me to make my art pieces
Hickory handled screwdriver. At a little over 1 1/4" diameter the handle fits my big 'ol bear paws just right. Sanded to 150 and finished with DO.
Made a couple more thread inserts so I grabbed a few pics. The idea came from vids on you tube. I believe M. Peace did one. New chuck is working great!
Got two of each half from the set.
Also made another urn for my buddy's recently lost pet. Made from birch, entimoe and purple heart.
Also made another urn for my buddy's recently lost pet. Made from birch, entimoe and purple heart.
Interesting and looks good. How do you hold the plastic to the wood? Does epoxy stick t it?
After a couple weeks setting up and riding a new bicycle, riding my Harley, mowing lawns, extra exercise routines.....and generally playing hooky from lathe turning, I finally got around to finishing a Coolibah burl bowl that has been neglected and needed finishing last evening!
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I used 2 part epoxy. Time will tell if it holds. Youtube people used it also.
Thank you, Barry. It is good to look back and take stock in one’s growth! Interesting too is that although tools, techniques, and understanding of form, etc. has changed greatly, the basics, the eye (if you will) hasn’t all that much.
Between the making of this piece, and what I’m doing now was a 30 year dry spell.
The satisfaction, peace and growth since returning to turning is immeasurable.
Thank you, Leo.Beautiful piece Marc, I wish my first pieces were that nice, as I did some turning before I went into the Royal Dutch Navy, I went right back to it after getting out, and the big old engine lathe was still waiting for me to make my art pieces
Good for you for getting right back to it! You have quite the body of beautiful work since.
All through my 30 year hiatus from turning I kept the desire and love for the craft. One of the first things I did, once my life settled, was to return to an old love. I intend to stay at it for as long as my body will allow.
Marc:
Sounds a little like my own experience. Long lapse (a mere 25 years in my case) before returning to the lathe and round things. I'm amazed at the changes in tools, work holding and even the lathes themselves; many things are much easier now. Of course as you point out the eye still has the most important role to play in the development of the form. I admit though, the things I made back then are nowhere near as nice as the piece you posted! I may well keep that in mind for inspiration in the future!
Cheers.
Barry
@Marc Banka thanks for posting. That is a beautiful piece, and a nice flashback story to read. It's clear that you've long had an eye for curves and form. I'm surprised to learn you had a 30 year break. In any case, you didn't skip a beat. Like riding a bicycle, eh? Good stuff!
This was for a while until I shut it off to check for a weird noise! Glad I stopped to check it out. There were no cracks visible when I started.
That's an exceptional looking bowl! Care to give a tutorial?
I'd be tickled if I could get half as good a finish even.
Sam - what would you like to know??? Finish is pretty straightforward - sand to 180, 2-3 coats of Osmo hardwax oil then a finish coat of clear epoxy
have done a number of bowls like this recently - an ash bowl with a segmented looking rim attached with epoxy - on this latest one I didn't try to make it look like a segmented rim but just put colored resin pieces and exotic wood in a random jumble and then filled in the gaps with resin tinted with transparent purple dye
Was it a blank you started out with and covered the whole top then formed the bowl? Or was it a rough turned bowl that you somehow placed the resin around the rim with a dam of some sort?
Or resin on the bottom and then bowl placed upside down in it? <<This one doesn't seem plausible because the exotic wood looks too evenly/well placed.
I like the splalted wood. How big is the bowl
Around 12”.
Sam you guessed it - "a rough turned bowl with a temporary resin damn" - I did not want to hijack this thread so I made a separate post explain the process -
Add a decorative rim using resin
I have come up with a way to add a decorative rim to any bowl either twice turned or from a solid dried wood blank. This will not work on green wood as resin does not like a lot of moisture and the rim will most likely separate as the wood moves while drying. A note – all the resin I use (about...
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Turning the other half of the cherry burl ball. Got mostly done, just have to turn it around and finish the foot. The black area at the rim was a huge void I filled with black walnut dust followed with coffee grounds.
A boatload of English walnut. I got about 30 smallish logs direct from the orchard. Very pale for walnut, but it’s starting to develop the cream color that I’ve seen in a few English walnuts in the past.
Looks like there will be about 400 bowl blanks. About half are 8-14 inches in diameter from the straight sections of the trunks and the other half mostly 5-7 inches with varying amounts of crotch figure. Also a few dozen spindle blanks that will probably become lidded boxes. Planning on having them all roughed out by the weekend.
Looks like there will be about 400 bowl blanks. About half are 8-14 inches in diameter from the straight sections of the trunks and the other half mostly 5-7 inches with varying amounts of crotch figure. Also a few dozen spindle blanks that will probably become lidded boxes. Planning on having them all roughed out by the weekend.
Working on a special project which is extension handles for the STIHL chain filing tool. The tool works great except that the handles are so short that your hands cramp up using it. The pictures should explain it better than words.
This is the jig to hold the blank for turning the handle.
This is the jig to hold the blank for turning the handle.
Nice looking shop Isaac!
Thanks! I’m full time in there, mostly building furniture and occasional small production runs of wooden parts for a few local manufacturers. This week I’m a full time turner
Received a 5 foot log from a neighbor so I cut it up and got it ready for drying.
Decided to grab a piece and try my hand at a twice turned bowl.
Need to research what kind of wood it is.
Decided to grab a piece and try my hand at a twice turned bowl.
Need to research what kind of wood it is.
Looks like ash from where I’m sitting
Definitely ash. If you look on the top photo at some of the pieces that have the wood facing up you can see the "arrow" like vertical grain which pretty much indicates ash.
Grabbed a stick of hard maple and made a new handle for myself.
Kevin Jesequel
TOTW Team
Left before sunrise to pick up a load of pecan today. This wood was taken from the Hays County courthouse, a historic location in Texas and offered to members of the local AAW club. Hays county was named after Captain John Coffee Hays, a Texas Ranger who fought in many engagements in both the Texas-Comanche and Mexican-American wars in the 1800's.
Hays County courthouse.
Hays County courthouse.
Stunning piece of walnut!
Beautiful piece, Randy-It looks a lot like ambrosia maple in the pic. Is it very hard?
Nice load. Was wondering why they cut all those at an angle and lost you a lot of turning wood.
Not sure who did the cutting, it wasn't a turner. I'm happy to have it either way. There are at least four really nice crotch blanks in the bunch. The limbs aren't large enough for bowls but will make good size spindle blanks. I'll see about getting it cut up tomorrow.
Lately I'm really trying to learn to do shallow bowls/platters. I finished the bottom of this one in curly ambrosia maple, and the figure was so beautiful I decided to go for broke on the finish: 1500-grit, Yorkshire Grit and (so far) 3 coats of TruOil. This one will also get the Beall buffs no question once it cures a bit! I finished turning the inside today, and am sanding through the grits (the pencil marks are for a hump in the curve I need to sand out). As I work towards developing a style, I've put a subtle undercut under the rim and on the inside that, to quote my friend and mentor Tim Tucker, "invites the hand and the eye." I kept testing on the lathe with my hand, and sure enough, this combo just fits naturally into the cradle of the thumb and fingers). I stole this idea from the Tom Wirsing platter video. I'm also sort of going for a fleur-de-lis/flying saucer-ish rim here if that makes any sense, so really working on the curves and beads. I like a sexy rim (yeah, I'm weird). Someday I'll nail the perfect ogee curve too.
Our club president asked us to turn a whistle for the August meeting. I turned it from a piece of spalted sweetgum. This was my first attempt at a whistle and it doesn't whistle . My wife suggests that's a feature not a bug.
. My wife suggests that's a feature not a bug.