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What’s on your lathe?
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Unfortunately, I have a ton of leaves on the ground right now. This section of my front yard has honey locust, ash, red mulberry, swamp chestnut oak, red oak, walnut, dogwood, and more, so the leaves won't be much of a clue.
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When I get a hollow log I think hollow form with two windows or a sphere with a window
Here is a spherical shaped HF from a hollow camphor limb
See through view
Great idea. I'll try that with a section. I haven't done a lot of hollow forms but I'll go down that road before long.
I finished the section of sugarberry I had been working on.
The first picture at the metal lathe with the thread pitch set at 8 TPI and the router set to cut 95 thou is cutting the threads. The second picture shows the compound slide set at 29 degrees and set at 95Thou to cut the thread in one pass. To stop the thread cutting I back out the router and simultaneously disengage the threading feed then manually move the cross slide back. To cut a new thread I reset the compound to 95 thou and reengage the feed. The 3rd picture is back on the wood lathe sanding the thread and parting off the bolt
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First piece of stabilized alligator juniper burl. Learned a lot about Cactus Juice over the past month. Very happy with the results.
First coat of Danish oil applied to this White Oak bowl. I was initially planning to fume it, but decided not too.
Nice one Michael, I like that very slight flare, goes well with it 
Thank you @Leo Van Der Loo ! No embellishments on this one 
Finishing up a tangential bowl...Cherry and Alaskan Cedar....should be done tomorrow.
First ever dye project. Ash box and lid dyed with Ridex green. With one coat of wipe on poly. Next up will be possible try at this months challenge.
A little piece of Cherry burl, hopefully it will be something someday. I wiped it off with some mineral spirits.
A friend showed me a picture of this cool bowl that he saw at a fair, said it won some award. I said wait, you saw this in person? I’ve been following the forum thread where that bowl was being made!
Excellent work!
Ha! Oh that’s so funny. The Hamilton County Fair had a bunch of different competition categories this year. I dropped off the bowl on Wednesday and am picking it up tomorrow evening. Hadn’t heard anything about how it did. Pretty cool to find out here—thanks for the heads up!! You’ve seen the final version before any here has then
Norway maple from the neighbor’s yard
Cool pole lathe Sarah! Did you build it? That’s a thing in my list. Some day.
Itty bitty Black Locust end grain calabash. These little ones are fun to make. Just finished it up, and letting it ammonia fume overnight. Hemp oil tomorrow, and in a few days will mail it out as a thanks to the friend that gave me the wood.
I picked up a few pieces of Black Locust from a friend yesterday. Nice calabash, I am interested in how the ammonia fuming turns out.
Another random log bowl. Red cedar.
This was a piece of butternut that was literally in the burn pile.
This was a piece of butternut that was literally in the burn pile.
@Kent Reisdorph the rim of that Cedar is awesome.
@James Seyfried thanks Jim. It’s a bit unnerving to fume Black Locust, as it takes on a weird bile-like color. After oiling the green is pretty subdued and the dark brown shines through more prominently. I’ll post a photo of it oiled whenever I’m finished, but here it is pre-oil this morning after I took it out of the fumes.
Edit: here is a photo after the first coat of oil.
@James Seyfried thanks Jim. It’s a bit unnerving to fume Black Locust, as it takes on a weird bile-like color. After oiling the green is pretty subdued and the dark brown shines through more prominently. I’ll post a photo of it oiled whenever I’m finished, but here it is pre-oil this morning after I took it out of the fumes.
Edit: here is a photo after the first coat of oil.
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Kent, are you sure that bottom yellow piece is butternut? Only had a few pieces of it, and it was all tan/brown, not yellow...
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I agree. Doesn't look like any butternut I've ever turned.
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My contribution for the thread... Someone at the Church Bazaar we were vendoring at offered me a couple large pieces of leftover walnut slabs that had been sitting around taking up space in his shop for a few years.. I cut out a nice figured piece from what looked to be the end that had some crotch figure and made him a bowl out of it...(Planning to give it to him as a surprise next time I see him... he already bought one of my larger bowls at the bazaar.) Then I managed to find another section crack-free, and got a 11.5 inch piece rounded out of it and started another bowl - Also was my first time trying out Ack's (Who happens to actually be sorta local, 10 miles east of us on U.S. 6) and quite surprised with how well it worked - Just some sanding paste and carnauba wax after sanding 120-180-240-320 ... Still on the lathe and I hope to get it mounted to the recess I cut and finish the inside maybe tomorrow.
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Yes, I built it. Designed the whole thing to fit in the backseat of my compact car. It’s super fun.
That looks more like Mulberry,
Butternut is like this (my picture is redder than it should be) I have turned a few pieces, nice wood but in trouble by cancer that kills the tree, protected in Canada now.
Here are two bowls left one is Bitternut Hickory with a rough turned Butternut on the right.
As for Carpathian Walnut, I planted one in my backyard in London On. and a early heavy snowfall with storm winds split that young (15 year or so) tree in two, rescued all I could, this is one of the turnings I made from it.
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No, I'm not. That shot on the lathe was just after I put on finish so it's not quite that yellow. Here's another picture.
Here are some pieces from the same tree.
I was using an app to ID trees that I later realized gets a lot of things wrong. Plus this tree was dead so no leaves to use for ID. It's fairly soft wood.
Almost looks like Ash in those photos Kent, but I’m not sure.
It looks similar to ash but the texture isn't quite right.
This cedar had bumped out rings on the exterior of the trunk every 2-3 feet. It's hard to explain and Google isn't helpful. That's where those points come from on the rim and the grain pattern.
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This another bowl I made from the same tree. I made it when I was first starting out so it's pretty rough but you get the idea.
Good Lord I love walnut-beautiful bowl!
I have seen bumped out rings like that before, and they were from fence wire.... Hope you don't run into any...
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Update on my Ash bowl with the unfortunate stain. I know this is something that ash does, but in this case is unattractive.
So, I coated it with India ink, right from the bottle. Didn’t do it right, though. I applied it like it was an oil finish, rubbed it with a small pad. That cause way too much ink, and it dries quickly and became uneven. What was I thinking?! So, I thinned the ink with alcohol and tried adding some wet and rubbing in, which evened things somewhat. Not enough, though, but did rub to a very nice gloss. I need to study and work on using shellac for the high gloss thing, but not today.
I removed all of the ink that I could with plenty of alcohol and was liking the look except from the areas that I had to really scrub.
I brushed on a thin layer of ink, once again. Let dry and wiped down with alcohol. Buffed lightly and started a top seal with trued and true. I‘ll do proper studio photos and post to our gallery, but this is the look I ended up with. I’m enjoying the early wood/late wood contrast.
So, I coated it with India ink, right from the bottle. Didn’t do it right, though. I applied it like it was an oil finish, rubbed it with a small pad. That cause way too much ink, and it dries quickly and became uneven. What was I thinking?! So, I thinned the ink with alcohol and tried adding some wet and rubbing in, which evened things somewhat. Not enough, though, but did rub to a very nice gloss. I need to study and work on using shellac for the high gloss thing, but not today.
I removed all of the ink that I could with plenty of alcohol and was liking the look except from the areas that I had to really scrub.
I brushed on a thin layer of ink, once again. Let dry and wiped down with alcohol. Buffed lightly and started a top seal with trued and true. I‘ll do proper studio photos and post to our gallery, but this is the look I ended up with. I’m enjoying the early wood/late wood contrast.
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Interesting!
Marc-I've got a nice ash bowl I plan to use India Ink on. Thanks for the tutorial here! I will probably also finish over that with multiple coats of TruOil, and buff with silver embellishing wax, as I'm going for a kind of radical design that looks stunning in my head. We'll see...
As a quick follow-up question, I got a 160z. bottle of the Speedball ink. If I want an even glossy jet black, what might be my best steps? Do I thin with DNA and build coats? What is the best application method? Old rags? Foam craft brush? Any advice on this is appreciated, as I've never done it before. Aaron
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Finished it today,
Along with a chunk of apple I had turned into a round (didn't rough it) and anchor sealed it all over but for the top face, because I couldn't get to turning it at the time, then forgot about it.. found it today and turned a bowl out of it.
Don't complain Marc, it is still a beautiful bowl, engrain always (almost) will take more of anything than side grain, trying to take some off is pretty hard, as it will just go deeper into the wood, especially in open grain or the open early wood as in Ash.
Filling the wood first with shellac will help with some, but a finish with alcohol will make a mess, maybe lacquer would work better, I don't know, as I never have done any of this.