Nick, If you haven't already, find a woodturning club within 50 miles of you and start attending the meetings. It will greatly accelerate your learning curve. Just making some friends and getting questions answered from fellow turners is a gift.
Thank you Don, I can say that it is fantastic advice. That is exactly what I did. To my surprise, the club meets about a block away from my house. I never knew they met there. I was surprised at the number of members who were in attendance.
Bandsaw, scroll saw or parting tool to cut the rings?
Parting tool, on the lathe.
Cracked pretty quickly! (I assume it was cut that day.)
Oak seems to crack almost as soon as it hits the ground.
Just looking at the stump and the short sections of log I would say that it looks dead. A live healthy tree would likely have a fan of roots maybe 6' high but that one just looks like it broke off at the ground level.
The app is not great. I keep hoping they'll update it.
Maybe do a test burn of the species label on a scrap of brown paper before committing. I just got my laser pecker a couple months ago and I agree the app is not very easy to use and is often glitchy.
Sound advice, but I'm too impatient. I'm pretty sure I know how to solve it. I just need to make sure I shut down the LaserPecker app every time I switch images.
LP has burned me like that before, too, pardon the pun. I'd suggest saving back all your leftover scraps and bits of flat wood (leftover tenons after parting off something, perhaps? that you can use some cheap 3M double sided tape (comes off easy the kind you can get at dollar store craft aisle) and stick a scrap to your foot before burning - that way once you get it to burn what you are after, then you don't need to fiddle with the setup and alignment and just repeat the burn again?
Great work. Great shapes!
Those look great! What kind of wood is that?
Ooooooh. Very nice collection!
The three oval ones are maple, and the two in the back are cherry.
Thank you!
Well I’m getting there😁. I should have started with a simple form but I’m heard headed! I figured if I started with a harder form I could learn quicker and each one is better than the last.
Thank you! Some are a little thicker in the bottom but each one is progressively better. For some reason the tall one looks odd in the picture but must be the camera angle as it looks uniform in person.
