Refused to give in!!
Turned my exploding bowls into a cup and saucer! First try with milk paint also.
Turned my exploding bowls into a cup and saucer! First try with milk paint also.
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Small box elder bowls, roughed this week. Will be dry by next spring and lids will be made after they are finished turned. Weights will be monitored every month.
Update on the Bimblebox burl bowl with the huge void. Looks like I might getAlso, brought to round an Australian Bimblebox burl bowl. Some of you may remember this one, as there was a thread discussing it. When I initially roughed it out, a very big void appeared that was a complete surprise to me.I've decided to finish it up and keep that void.....we'll see how it turns out.....fingers crossed on this one! Bottom of bowl will have to be extra thick, so as not to punch through on both sides. As usual with many of these exotic woods, I'll have to deal with other scattered cracks, bark inclusions, and voids in this one. Comments welcome.
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something usable out of this after all. Still have to do the foot, and that will be
about two weeks from now. As you can see in the interior, I'm just breaking
through to the big void, so I left the depth of the interior there. It's approximately'
3/4" thick there, but I figured it looks better at this thickness, than if I had gone
thinner. As a result, the bowl will be fairly heavy, relative to it's size.
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2 cherry bowls, unsure if ornamental or wild from a friends place. The rounds had pp beetles plus ants so baked both in a toaster oven for 6 hours at 140F. Bowl 1 blank was baked first then turned and finished while #2 was turned, sanded to 600g then baked. There was slight distortion after baking the finished bowl but the wood was quite dry when turned.
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Nothing planned for today so I slapped on a piece of Maple and practiced finial turns. Tried to go as thin as I dared. About 3/16th on top. 1 1/2in bottom about 6 in high.
Phil, I have been having fun making finials for a while. When I first started I used a “Finial Chucky” made by rubber Chucky. That made it easier to make a point on the end. Probably what helped me the most was watching Cindy Drozda videos. You are doing well, but one thing that might make it a bit easier is to get the top of the finial as thin as you want it before removing wood more towards the bottom. Once you move on you can’t go back, except for some light sanding.
Starting on a piece of what I was told is a cherry burl. Somehow that doesnt look right for that. Almost looks like a mahogany, quilted or burl. Any guesses? It developed very good chatoyance as evidenced by this picture.
I screwed up. Almost done with turning the outside of this stein, pushed a little too hard, created/found a catch , and bam it flew off. I had moved the tail stock to measure the diameter and forgot to put it back.
It has the right coloring for butternut but I have never seen a butternut burl. Butternut also is very soft and open grained so maybe?
Ive turned butternut, its coarse grained and stringy as well as having a blonde character. This is fine grained, pretty hard and pretty brown tones.
This is what the butternut looked like. It was very lightweight wood as well.w Probably weight half what a maple bowl would.
I'm working on finishing this spalted Maple bowl.
I have been assisted by my new addition to the shop. I haven't tried turning seated but it sure has helped with finishing with a negative rake scraper and sanding. Especially with the punky easy tear-out of this spalted Maple.
I have been assisted by my new addition to the shop. I haven't tried turning seated but it sure has helped with finishing with a negative rake scraper and sanding. Especially with the punky easy tear-out of this spalted Maple.
Gary, first look at that bowl, and I thought it was California Bay Laurel/Oregon Myrtle wood. The color is about right for a lot of the myrtle we get here. It does tend to have a kind of sweet spicy smell to it. If it is starting to rot, it can smell like a horse stall.... It is one of those woods that the higher grit you sand to, the more it glows.
robo hippy
robo hippy
My wife wanted a tabletop for this plant stand. I could have done it with dimensional lumber but I wanted to turn it. One of my mulberry logs was just big enough to turn a 12" side grain plate. Getting a thinnish, 12" plate flat was not as easy as you might think (at least for me).
A very quick little car for a (niece and her husband’s) little guy coming up on nine months old.
Well, the four wheels came off the lathe…
Well, the four wheels came off the lathe…
Here is a table lamp me and my brother worked on together for our mom! I turned the spindle and he turned the base. All of it is turned and wired all by us! Wood is Cherry, sanded to 800#, and finished with wax. It turned out amazing and mom loves it 
Thursday saw me turning this cherry bowl.
Tom Gall
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Interesting pentagon shape! Turned or machined with a router? I assume that chain doesn't have anything to do with the bowl.
Couple of start-to-finish projects today. The first is from a hop-hornbeam I cut down yesterday. The second is a section of cherry left over from cutting out the pith on a large log. It's my first plate.
It occurs to me that piece of hophornbeam looks an awful lot like osage orange. I used an app to identify the tree before I cut it down but now I'm not sure.
Yes I thought it had to be something other then Hop Hornbeam because I was just turning some wooden bolts in American hornbeam or as the locals call it "iron wood" and that is not a ring porous wood. The sapwood is very white and dense/hard and the heart wood is a dull brown and not as hard.
I just started to make wooden bolts to mount my grandfathers Remington Arms Company 1889 SXS shot gun on my wall. The mounting will consist of a two piece wooden clamp for the stock and for the barrel held together by 1/2" - 8threaded bolt with a 7/8" hex head. The first picture is sizing the blank at 1" diameter for the head then the next step will be to mount the blanks in my Beal Jumbo chuck with 1" collet to turn the 1/2" dia for threading.I have one piece of Eastern Hop Horn Beam. I picked it up from a 2 time president of the International Wood Collectors Society. It is pretty much white with a slightly darker heart wood. It came from Vienna, Virginia. They put a postage sticker on it dated 7/16/93 and just mailed the blank..... Guess the sender wasn't worried about it getting damaged in transit.... Other than that, I wouldn't know a hop horn beam if it fell on me....
robo hippy
robo hippy
Now I have no idea what it is. Guesses? Ignore the two on the right in the first picture. With that hole down through the center it isn't osage orange.
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Looks like pecan. The bark's not rough and thick enough for osage orange.
Decided to try for a footed winged emerging bowl. Sanding is going to be a pain.
4X2 piece of Apple. Going to try and make a box.
Finished NEB of honey locust with Tried and True. Turned some hollow forms yesterday and today using some horse chestnut, Not really happy with sanding going to let them dry and give them another go. Not sure what finish to use on them.
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Next step is cutting the 7/8" hex on the milling machine with a spin index fixture that is advance the index starting at 0 degree then 60, 120 180 240 & 300
Tomorrow cut the threads and maybe finish the hex head
Tomorrow cut the threads and maybe finish the hex head
Red Penguin
I'm not sure what you got there Kent, but I do have pictures of Hornbeam, aka Blue Beech, muscle wood or Iron wood, and Hop Hornbeam also know as Iron wood.
There are many of these smaller trees mostly, on my sons property and I made some pictures of them there, typical Hop Hornbeam have these loose strips bark the Hornbeam has blueish smooth bark.
The wild Turkeys like the Hop Hornbeam seeds and come by with the whole flock picking as they go.
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Interesting.. It is the one on the left (the blue-ish grey smooth bark) that I know locally as Ironwood , Can't say I have noticed any other trees referred to as Ironwood, until I joined AAW and find that some species names may vary by region (Desert Ironwood, for example) The one on the right I presume is the one that drops those seeds turkey love so much , so I'm fairly sure we had a few such trees on the farm, but I can't say as I recall anyone mentioning what the tree was... Just seemed like Turkeys preferred to flock around those particular trees.....
I wonder if it could be honey locust. This tree was about 10 feet from a large honey locust. It was 12 years old according to ring identification. It's definitely not hornbeam as I originally thought (tricked by Picture This app). I cut down a smaller hornbeam and it has the wide, pale sapwood and dark heartwood.
More work on the Apple wood box this morning.
Have you seen a hungry squirrel feeding on the seeds? Quite a show!
The first 2 pictures showing the bark with a slight twist to the pattern are exactly what I look for when harvesting iron wood. The trees that I get are not as big as those appear to be but the wood is excellent for hand screws or wooden bolts.
This hand screw has maple jaws and hornbeam/iron wood screws, the handle area was built up with walnut so that the turning blanks could use less iron wood.
My app suggests, from left to right, flowering dogwood, hophornbeam, and white oak.
I think the middle-sized one with the darker heartwood is the hophornbeam (which is what you said). The left, larger tree is the one I'm wondering about. It isn't dogwood, though. Dogwood has almost a white sapwood, very little heartwood, and tight grained. The smallest tree laying under the others is a dogwood.
I made more close-ups from the pictures, I don't know what tree this is, all kinds of leafs around like Oak leaves
Then the two other pieces are here, the one on the right could be OAK ??, but I don't know.
