Small 8” cherry rough out. 10 down, 24 to go!
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What’s on your lathe?
- Thread starter Rusty Nesmith
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Very pretty colors. I absolutely love the smell of green Cherry.
Yes I like the smell of wet cherry too. We had a demo at our club last Saturday and they used flaming box elder. Beautiful wood but boy does it stink.
any tricks for keeping bark on? Great work.
Cut in the winter, fumigate to kill any insects, sharp tools and lots of Super Thin CA.
Roughed out this hollow form tonight. 16” deep is as far as I’ve gone yet. A friend donated this elm.
I have to ask Michael, what does a Super Moderator do? 😀
Couple of small bowls I finished this week. Sugarberry (surprise!) and walnut.
Umm, I thought it was obvious. I get to wear a hero cape when I turn now. Ha. Ha. Buh-dum-ting!
But seriously, it just has to do with functionality in the forum software. This just means I can help out Bill and Emiliano with approving new member registrations. The list is perpetually growing--it's kind of wild (also kind of shocking how many new members join and never actually participate).
I know!! There are like 13,000 members but I think only ~500 or so actually participate!
Almost have my setup for the JaHo: Ornamental Jig perfected . Tried it to day and learned the patience and tske it easy are virtues. Too fast rips the wood. 
1st expensive piece of wood I've purchased. Hope I don't make a boo boo!
Not on the lathe but supporting the work. Reorganized the sand paper.
Yes, definitely not around the lathe.
Getting close to finishing a 12 inch spalted Maple bowl. It has an undercut rim that is slanted down. I had thickly coated it with Anchorseal a few years ago to help keep the knot intact. It took some patience to deal with tear-out from slightly punky spots and a fresh bur a negative rake scraper.
That’s a really nice bowl.
Finished the Osage orange bowl. I used Yorkshire grit on this one for the first time. I had been using Ack's prior to this. Tried and True finish.
And the mulberry bowl.
Great pair, Kent!
Made these for my granddaughter’s not much turning but used my lathe to hold them in place and also polish them! Lol
It is laser day on my lathe. Trying something a bit different, mixing organic and geometric shapes.
What type of laser is that, and what software do you use to drive it?
It is a relatively cheap 5W (the kind you see listed as 20W) diode laser. Tool paths are generated with LightBurn, but control of the CNC is done with a heavily modified version of OctoPrint. I've modified it to do the things that are needed to handle the two rotary axes on the machine.
Thanks. I got a LaserPecker 1 when they were on sale but it’s quite limited - CNC will have to enter the picture 🙂
13” diameter, 4 1/2” tall bowl, top ring is mahogany, middle is hard maple (from a cut off from a butcher block countertop), bottom is walnut.
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I have a lot of this sugarberry on the ground. I cut up a bunch of it over the weekend. Couldn't help but turn a piece. It's a little punky on the outer edge.
This idea has been bouncing around in my head for a while. Ambrosia maple platter/bowl with tooled leather and ebony inlay. The center leather medallion is fitted. Cherry top and ebony finial finished. The empty section on the top of the platter is where the tooled leather inlay will go.
The second picture shows the ebony band with boxwood treenails. The last shows all pieces fitted except for the cherry base which is not finished. Have some final sanding to go.
The second picture shows the ebony band with boxwood treenails. The last shows all pieces fitted except for the cherry base which is not finished. Have some final sanding to go.
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stain really makes the grain show nicely:
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Worked on a maple burl with spalting on one side. Not really happy with the results.....spalting very soft and couldn't sand without taking a lot more surface off the spalted area than the surrounding wood. Surface uneven and a couple chunks of the soft spalting came loose.
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At each of my turning club's monthly meeting there is a wood raffle. I suspect that is pretty common. Last month, I was help cleaning up, and one of the pieces of wood didn't get claimed. It was a roughed out Black Walnut bowl. Rough refers to the condition as well. It was bad enough that no one wanted to take it haha. But, I couldn't refuse it, if nothing else to see what was inside. There are a couple of punky spots, and the roughout had some crazy-deep tearout, but I've wrangled it in about 95%, and changed the form as much as I could. Here is the exterior with preliminary sanding. I'm going to bring the foot in quite a bit more, maybe carve some feet. It's 10.75"d and about 5" deep.
I have been able to improve questionable surfaces shear scraping and/or sanding after letting Danish oil dry on the piece. You may already do this.