What’s on your lathe?

[Leo Van Der Loo]

I would bet folks in other parts of the world would prize black walnut, black cherry, et al. Our friends from across the pond(s) no doubt will weigh in.

Actually Western Europe has problems with Red Oak and coarse Evergreens from N. America, my cousin and now nephews have a lot of work removing and thinning out these species, but there are a lot of rules and regulations to work with, also Black Cherry is not liked as trees, they do not grow and mature as over here, of course they do have the European Walnut trees for the last 2000 years, they even have them now in England, renamed by them as English Walnut ;-)
I lived for 25 years inThe Netherlands and trees an wood was part of our families living (on my mothers side)
This has grown into a large business, and was started by my great grandfather (He borrowed a horse from the French Army )

 

[Gary Beasley]

I’ve been without a lathe for the past month while Technatool in Florida repaired my drive board on my DVR 2024. The modular design of this beast made the servicing quite easy.
Heres one I dug out of the blank pile with some serious punkiness through the middle but really good colors. I was soaking it in Varathane wood hardener, thin CA, then overcoating the punky areas with medium CA to deal with the tearout. The remaining minor roughness gives it a bit of character, showing how close it came to being compost.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Actually Western Europe has problems with Red Oak and coarse Evergreens from N. America, my cousin and now nephews have a lot of work removing and thinning out these species, but there are a lot of rules and regulations to work with, also Black Cherry is not liked as trees, they do not grow and mature as over here, of course they do have the European Walnut trees for the last 2000 years, they even have them now in England, renamed by them as English Walnut ;-)
I lived for 25 years inThe Netherlands and trees an wood was part of our families living (on my mothers side)
This has grown into a large business, and was started by my great grandfather (He borrowed a horse from the French Army )

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That's pretty cool.

 

[robo hippy]

Actually Western Europe has problems with Red Oak and coarse Evergreens from N. America, my cousin and now nephews have a lot of work removing and thinning out these species, but there are a lot of rules and regulations to work with, also Black Cherry is not liked as trees, they do not grow and mature as over here, of course they do have the European Walnut trees for the last 2000 years, they even have them now in England, renamed by them as English Walnut ;-)
I lived for 25 years inThe Netherlands and trees an wood was part of our families living (on my mothers side)
This has grown into a large business, and was started by my great grandfather (He borrowed a horse from the French Army )

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Hmm, I thought the English walnut was actually the Persian walnut, and the Persians were the ones who turned it into an orchard tree rather than the wild walnut trees.

robo hippy

 

[R Henrickson]

Hmm, I thought the English walnut was actually the Persian walnut, and the Persians were the ones who turned it into an orchard tree rather than the wild walnut trees.

robo hippy

English walnut originates in Iran (Persian walnut). A different species is native to North America.

Walnuts are an important ingredient in Persian cuisine. One of my favorite dishes is chicken in walnut/pomegranate sauce, served over rice.

Fesenjān - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Art Chamberlin]

Dying to try this. My first ever attempt at carving also.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Hmm, I thought the English walnut was actually the Persian walnut, and the Persians were the ones who turned it into an orchard tree rather than the wild walnut trees.

robo hippy

An other name is Carpathian Walnut, in the Carpathian Mountains it is where the Walnuts survived the last Ice age, there are still large Walnut trees growing in the wild, people have planted these Walnuts in a large area in Europe, the same Walnut trees grow in the area I grew up in, many neighbors had a Walnut tree on their property, as did we.
I assume that the Romans did plant Walnuts where ever they settled for any length of time.
But there is no reason to call them Italian/Spanish/French/ English etc. Walnut trees, as they are just the same species and are not native to England or the other countries.

 

[Phil Hamel]

The softest most rotten chunk of maple I had! Only piece big enough for what I wanted to do. Started turning at 6 high 12 around and ended up with 5 high and 10 round. Two coats of resin mixed with alcohol to make it firm up enough to finish. Ice pick penetrated all the way in on one side of the piece! I put my finger thru it in one spot before it flew off.

 

[Ted Pelfrey]

My plan today was to finish the foot on about 15 bowls and get them in stock. Then I remembered I bought some Indian Ink last week for a future project and had to see how it looked on a white oak bowl instead. Now I’ll just add it to the others and finish them tomorrow…hate it when that happens😁😁

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Love the contrast! Nice curve down to the foot. Please put in gallery after it’s finished.