What’s on your lathe?

[Odie]

12 x 3 Australian Bimblebox burl.
Still wet with D.O. Very enjoyable turning.
A couple minor drying cracks on the rim, but otherwise this is another perfect burl.

-o-

 

[Phil Hamel]

Picked up these twelve 16 inch long pieces for 10 bucks!
Was told it was walnut bit I'm thinking it might be butternut. Any thoughts?
Home owner cut it down last September and just left it on the ground. Will have to cut into it to see what's salvageable. For 10 bucks I figured why not!

 

[David Wyke]

This started out as a 16” x 7” pecan bowl and ended up as a 5-1/2” x 7” hollow form! I turned in to a lot of bark inclusion that would have been to dangerous to turn once I turned the inside. I keep trying to turn the inclusion out and almost put in the scrap pile. I decided to take it on down and ended up turning the small hollow form.
Pecan so no telling how much it will move. Most of the pecan I turn moves like crazy.

 

[Neil S]

I keep trying to turn the inclusion out and almost put in the scrap pile.


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David

People pay good money at the gallery for my pieces with natural features like that in them.

Your market may be different.
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[David Wyke]

David

People pay good money at the gallery for my pieces with natural features like that in them.

Your market may be different.
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I have several bowls with bark inclusion. But this one would have blown up when turning the inside. I was even afraid to wrap and tape it.
I do have the mating piece I’ll try to turn today, hopefully not as bad.

 

[robo hippy]

Picked up these twelve 16 inch long pieces for 10 bucks!
Was told it was walnut bit I'm thinking it might be butternut. Any thoughts?
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The only butter nut I ever had had a very distinctive rippled growth rings, which made the inside of the bowl look kind of like a spider web. I did read that this is typical of butternut. The particular tree was tied for #1 biggest in north America. It was storm damaged. It did smell like vinegar rather than the distinct walnut smell.

robo hippy

robo hippy

 

[Charles Cadenhead]

While looking for wood for a project I came across a couple of pieces of crepe myrtle that I roughed out in spring of 2020 and I thought it was time I finished them. This is the first one.

 

[Brian Kopp]

A 14 1/2”x6” bowl from a board, from acacia butcher block countertop.

 

[Brian Kopp]

A friend, a retired priest, requested one of my “Catholic” cigar ashtrays but he wanted it lined with an actual St. Benedict medal.

I didn’t feel quite right about using an actual Benedictine medal, so I cut out a 3 3/4” bluestone limestone liner for the ashtray, painted it with black high temp spray paint, and used my little 5w diode laser engraver to burn the paint off the bluestone in the shape of one side of a Benedictine medal.

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Piece of apple wood: turned a lidded box. Couldn’t find my box of different gauges of wire, so will revisit burning in the grooves.

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Next up: a padauk platter for a wedding present.

 

[Charles Cadenhead]

Final turning a piece of pear that I've been drying since 2022. It was football shaped before I re-rounded (is that a word? ) I'll finish it tomorrow.

 

[Phil Hamel]

Gave the new wood a cut and tried it on the lathe. Measures 23% humidity still. Smells like walnut to me. Will leave it on the lathe for a bit as I have an antique John Deere tractor to work on the next couple days.

 

[Gene Pitstick]

12 x 3 Australian Bimblebox burl.
Still wet with D.O. Very enjoyable turning.
A couple minor drying cracks on the rim, but otherwise this is another perfect burl.

-o-

Seems like you have turned a very large number of different types of wood. What is on your bucket list?
How about other members?
Gene

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Seems like you have turned a very large number of different types of wood. What is on your bucket list?
How about other members?
Gene

For me it is some of the rare Rosewoods like Sissoo Brazilian, or Madagascar. If you know of anyone with a small piece let me know!

 

[Odie]

Seems like you have turned a very large number of different types of wood. What is on your bucket list?
How about other members?
Gene

There are a zillion species I've never turned before, but I'm only interested in the very highly figured examples that are available from my sources. I find myself acquiring quite a few of the same woods that I've turned many times before these days. I leave it open to trial and experimenting when I see something new, different and intriguing! Because of that, I find I end up with way too many blocks of wood that never pan out to be great bowls!

I'd like to experiment with another black and white ebony bowl.....even though my first few attempts have had mixed results.

-o-

 

[Jaramiah Severns]

Working this cherry burl tonight. Will have her off the lathe tomorrow and can start sanding the interior. 😮‍💨😷

 

[Sam Fleisher]

hedge apple. the spiral on this one was done with hand rasps.

 

[Jaramiah Severns]

This started out as a 16” x 7” pecan bowl and ended up as a 5-1/2” x 7” hollow form! I turned in to a lot of bark inclusion that would have been to dangerous to turn once I turned the inside. I keep trying to turn the inclusion out and almost put in the scrap pile. I decided to take it on down and ended up turning the small hollow form.
Pecan so no telling how much it will move. Most of the pecan I turn moves like crazy.

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If you have more pieces like that (w/ deep inclusions), I’d be happy to swap you for solid piece. Love me a good void 👍🏻

 

[Stan Pressner]

Just finished these 2:
17" Platter that I believe is maple, but not sure. And an 11" box elder bowl, green from a huge pile of box elder I got. Next project, learning to take better photos!

 

[John Parker]

I tried a wider live edge to take advantage of the burl points on this box elder.

 

[David Wyke]

If you have more pieces like that (w/ deep inclusions), I’d be happy to swap you for solid piece. Love me a good void 👍🏻

I’ve turned a lot of bark inclusion but this one would have needed to be encased in epoxy to be safe to turn😁

 

[David Wyke]

I was the featured artist at a gallery yesterday ( I guess they were having trouble finding someone😁) and had someone request some “smaller” bowls, so I said I think I can help you out on that 😁. So, second turned 4 maples today 10” and 10-1/2” diameter.

 

[Jaramiah Severns]

I’ve turned a lot of bark inclusion but this one would have needed to be encased in epoxy to be safe to turn😁

Nothing a little gaffers tape couldn’t handle 🤣

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Gave the new wood a cut and tried it on the lathe. Measures 23% humidity still. Smells like walnut to me. Will leave it on the lathe for a bit as I have an antique John Deere tractor to work on the next couple days.

Which Deere?
Back in the 1970s we used an old John Deere B on a friend’s farm and for pulling power while felling trees.
When I bicycled across the US back in 2008 I stopped in Kimball, SD at the South Dakota Tractor Museum. Worth a visit if you’re out that way!

 

[Steve Tiedman]

Turned yesterday from an inherited, store-bought, pre-cut bowl blank that was so improperly cut from the log to begin with that I instead ripped a with-the-grain spindle blank out of it and end-grain turned this little bowl. Myrtle. 2-5/8" dia. x 1.25" tall.

 

[John Parker]

Australian brown Mallee burl.....(click 2x to inspect the details)
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Beautiful detail......

 

[Phil Hamel]

Which Deere?
Back in the 1970s we used an old John Deere B on a friend’s farm and for pulling power while felling trees.
When I bicycled across the US back in 2008 I stopped in Kimball, SD at the South Dakota Tractor Museum. Worth a visit if you’re out that way!

Late 60's model made in Germany with a French diesel engine. Or made in France with a German engine. Not sure. Lol! Grabbed another chunk off of the new pile. Started raining so couldn't get the rest processed. Project posted in the gallery.

 

[Charles Cadenhead]

Finished up the pear bowl today. It's about 8 inches across. My wife wants to embellish with some paint.

 

[Mike Shannon]

More Oak

 

[David Wyke]

Pecan moves a lot when drying ( with me) and the pecan hollow form I turned last week has move a half inch so far.
If it keeps moving it will end up looking like a Crown Royal bottle😂

 

[Bob Vaughan]

LOL

 

[Mark Fairchild]

This 10” walnut was rough turned the first of February and put in the dry box. It’s not the prettiest piece of walnut I’ve seen but will make someone a nice bowl. One coat of Waterlox sealer and simi gloss finish. I’m not very scientific on drying. Once a rough turned bowl gets below 10% with a moisture meter measured on top, middle and bottom, it gets turned. Some species will move a bit but not much. Weighing each piece through the process is to much record keeping for this child.

 

[Odie]

On the lathe last night:

This is the kind of long string shavings I aim to get from a bone dry African Blackwood cross grain bowl. I thought I'd finish this one up last night, but got sidetracked and ran out of time. I hope to finish it up tonight.....we'll see about that, but since time is not the point of my turning efforts.....mabe it will, and maybe it won't!

Note: I'm going to attempt an undercut rim on this one. It will be difficult, because my undercut rims need to be finished just as well as any other surface of the bowl. This gets complicated, because sanding up under there isn't the easiest thing. The surface prior to sanding, direct from the tool, needs to be as perfect as possible!

-o-

 

[Jay Peterson]

Odie,

Love African Blackwood. Turn with a skew and no sanding required. However, I only have access to smaller pieces. I am envious of your sources.

Jay

 

[Odie]

Odie,

Love African Blackwood. Turn with a skew and no sanding required. However, I only have access to smaller pieces. I am envious of your sources.

Jay

Jay.....

I wish I could get African Blackwood big enough to make a bowl just any ol' time.....but the fact is, in the last 40 years I've only had access to less than five. This particular block was sourced from an estate sale of a musical instrument maker. The original block was probably destined to be part of a clarinet, but fate intervened. (R.I.P.) There were three pieces available at that time, and I purchased all three of them. That was several years ago, and I haven't seen a single bowl sized block of African Blackwood since then.

-o-

 

[Odie]

Except for the foot, the Africa Blackwood bowl is now finished. Aprox 8x2.
Can't wait to see what the Beall buffing process does to this one.....

-o-

 

[Bob Hall]

Except for the foot, the Africa Blackwood bowl is now finished. Aprox 8x2.
Can't wait to see what the Beall buffing process does to this one.....

-o-

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Stunning. Very beautiful bowl.

 

[Nick Piergrossi]

Swamp Chestnut Oak. Decent flame on this one. LaserPecker let me down again. I've narrowed the problem down to the app. I'll have to sand off the logo and reburn it.
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Do you have any problem with the bark drying and falling off? Do you do anything to prevent that?

 

[David Wyke]

Finish turning the inside of some heart bowls for an upcoming show the end of July. They sell great but I don’t particularly like doing them😁, it’s like turning production.
Did 22 last October for a December show and turned the outside of all of them then finished 16 and sold all but one. These are what was left over. Will use wood dye and lacquer on all but the walnut. 2 down, 4 to go.