Finishing up a cherry bowl with Tried and True, approx 9x4.5"
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Each to his own!
I had one of those 3/4" D-way BGs and no matter how I ground the bevel on its flute profile we never became compatible, so I passed it on to someone who appreciated it more than me. I get on much better with the D-way 5/8" and 1/2" BGs.
I found the Woodcut and Thompson BGs more to my liking in the 3/4" size and for for the largest green work the Crown 7/8" and 1" BGs come into action. The 1-1/4" P&N can also comes into play for facing off (not endgrain areas) on larger platters, although I don't do much of that larger stuff nowadays.
The obligatory photos, a few 20" platters...
Camphor Laurel, front and back
This one is Australian Red Cedar
from 120yr old bench top
A few pre-turned Cypress/Pine
This one is Australian Red Cedar
from 120yr old bench top
A few pre-turned Cypress/Pine
Very nice work Neil! I put a 30` wing angle on that gouge. Sharp side edges are about 1 1/4 inches long on each side. Really really swept back.
I don't get a chance to use it all that often, just roughing larger green stuff. It will definitely move some wood. Like you I use 5/8" most often when roughing.
Ouch! That sucks! Happens to all of us sooner or later.
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You ain't the first, and most certainly not the last.... I have a couple of those under my belt, first one when turning the inside and mis-judging my bottom.. second one when turning off the tenon and getting a bit TOO concave.. both really good learning experiences.
I have several - I am thinking of turning a few small buttons or embellished medallions to insert in those cases where I turn them so thin that ‘the air shows through’
I remember that Johnny Tolley re-cut the exterior area . He put walnut slices in the bottom and poured clear resin in the interior and reshaped. I couldn't figure out how to explain correctly. You might contact him. He's a good guy and turner.
Turned a couple of mystery wood pieces this weekend. I thought the little hollow form was camphor but it doesn't smell and my son and I think the natural edge is some kind of fruit tree. He thinks cherry but I'm wondering if it was apple?
It is not cherry or apple since neither of them is ring porous.
Just flatten the bottom and glue another piece of wood on it. You could also turn the hole to a perfect circle so that you don't have a ragged transition between the 2 pieces especially if the 2 woods are contrasting colors.
The hollow form looks a lot like Elm
Hickory, twice turned. About 13” diameter 2” high. Finishing final shaping and sanding.
Played with a piece of pine to start.
Then I grabbed a chunk of Walnut.
Wanted to try and turn a larger Calabash than last time.
Added a witch's hat to the pumpkin but forgot to grab a pic.
Then I grabbed a chunk of Walnut.
Wanted to try and turn a larger Calabash than last time.
Added a witch's hat to the pumpkin but forgot to grab a pic.
@Charles Cadenhead I agree with Marc about the HF being Elm. The bowl kind of looks like Honey Locust to me.
Good to know, thanks!
Oh I wonder if it is? I guess I need to call my FiL....
Monty, I've noted the grind that you have adopted for that 3/4" D-way.
Thank you for sharing.
Roughing out an Osage Orange calabash. The block was very old and very dry, and of course turned crayon yellow when I cut beneath the surface. It’s a shame the color doesn’t stick around. I originally wanted to make a full-bodied calabash, and treat the crack with butterflies; however the edges of the crack were kind of ragged, and would have made the rim not so nice. That said, I cut it down considerably and am making more of a low-sided calabash, a la this month’s challenge. Should be nice whenever I finish turn.
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Crayon yellow calabash! It's such a fun color I wish it would last longer, though the tan/brown it fades to is nice.
You would be better off going with something completely different as it will never match anyway. A nice dark wood maybe.
Clear or tinted epoxy would look nice I bet. You could imbed a coin or medal. Would look planed that way.
I got messed up with the 4 pics per day rule. Here is the final oil applied to the bowl and a maybe final Halloween ornament.
I love that little pumpkin ornament Phil. Cool!
That does not look like the same bowl as the one you showed with the hole. The method I was recommending would be to flatten the entire bottom then glue on another flat board thick enough to make a new tenon plus the desired foot then mount it on the new tenon, refinish the inside, hold it with whatever you had used to turn off the old tenon, turn off the new tenon and turn the new foot. Trying to match the new wood to the old might not be possible so a contrasting wood/color could be tried.
Experiment # who knows what.... General Arm R seal on the outside and Howards butcher block conditioner inside. Then I cheaped out on the dye. lol RIT, but they have a lot of colors and their site says can be used for wood. This one is called tangerine. Spot on the rim is light reflection.
Ash 13" x 4"
Pandering for the fall festival coming up next month.
Ash 13" x 4"
Pandering for the fall festival coming up next month.
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Sam-I like how you are always experimenting. I've got a whole range of Chestnut spirit stains, and I'm long overdue to stain the next uninteresting (i.e.pale, very little figure) blank to cross my lathe.
I figure the rit dye was under $5 a bottle so if I end up not using it I won't care.
Kind of irrelevant though because it was another one of those deals where I told my sister she could pick the color and I knew this would happen when she showed up with all the colors dick blick (art supply store) had!
Cedar elm just starting to get punky
Finally finished the steins for my nephews. The ones on the ends are for my nephews. I thought while I was turning those two steins that I had enough wood to turn a 3rd one., the zebra wood and walnut, for my wife and that turning 3 of them was just as easy as turning 2. Now whole family has their own steins, most of the with different woods and patterns.
A piece of apple wood became this vase shape in a tripod stand today (all one piece of wood, thick milk paint forced dry with heat gun for texture).
Another set of goodies! I need to stay away from the wood worker store while waiting for my sister's doctor appointments.
G3 chuck with pin jaws.
Decided to update the tool cart. Repurposed a scrap of plywood I had.
Still room for a few more. Need to layout holes for all the other tools I had on there.
G3 chuck with pin jaws.
Decided to update the tool cart. Repurposed a scrap of plywood I had.
Still room for a few more. Need to layout holes for all the other tools I had on there.
Mini mini Monkey Puzzle [Araucaria araucana] tree bowl finished in Tried & True Original. Used most of the wood a friend gave me for pens. For some reason the knots in this wood will stay complete, few if any cracks, chunks out or usual issues when turning bowls or pen blanks with knots. Beautiful reddish coloured knot with lightish centres.
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@Pat Wisniewski, how did you make the spiral cuts? I like them.
Larry,
My mentor has spent many years developing creative methods to do ‘incising’ as he calls the cuts.
A pivot on the ways holds steel bars off of which a router gets mounted. An arm then gets connected to an index wheel mounted behind the chuck such that as the router cuts into the piece the whole piece gets rotated.
I am hoping to have a display of a number of my projects created during my apprenticeship at the Mid-Atlantic Woodturners Symposium Sept 22-24th in the Instant Gallery.
My mentor has spent many years developing creative methods to do ‘incising’ as he calls the cuts.
A pivot on the ways holds steel bars off of which a router gets mounted. An arm then gets connected to an index wheel mounted behind the chuck such that as the router cuts into the piece the whole piece gets rotated.
I am hoping to have a display of a number of my projects created during my apprenticeship at the Mid-Atlantic Woodturners Symposium Sept 22-24th in the Instant Gallery.
Chunk of sycamore.
Black Cherry doesn't grow anywhere near where I live so anytime I get a chance to turn some I take it. This is a 16" shallow bowl I'm working on from a cherry burl "cookie". So it has grain going every which way and a lot of cracks that I'll have to work on. I already screwed up and tried using CA in some of the endgrain so I'll have to fix that somehow.
