Felt good to turn a piece of green wood last night. Walnut crotch, turn the mating side today and then finish the bottom of some second turned bowls.
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What’s on your lathe?
- Thread starter Rusty Nesmith
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That's a great looking bowl, David.
Awesome grain and figure there! Very nice!
Thank you and Mother Nature 😂
I hope the mating side is just as nice
olive w sycamore coins over cracks. 
Turned the mating walnut crotch today, just a tad smaller and almost has a heart shape.
Making hearts even when you don’t intend to!
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You control the heart shape by how much of the vee in the Y of the crotch is inside the circle of the blank.
Here are few slides I show in demos on layout
I use a disc which a diameter on it. Position the blank on the disc so the vee is in the blank
Set blocks with a corner on the diameter and the center of the bowl opening is between the block corners
I drill a center hole for the spur drive then use the disc to cut the blan round
If one upper part of the Y is smaller you get sort of a mitten shape.
All the slides
I have done the same thing in the past and made a couple natural edge heart bowls. For some reason I didn’t even think about it for this one. Thanks for sharing!
Came across a big downed Southern Magnolia tree the other day, and managed to grab some chunks. I’ve been working on a lot of tedious projects lately, so it’s great to be able to turn green wood. Here’s one of several calabashes I’m roughing out. This will be about 9-10” diameter and 6-7” tall when finished turned.
Just finished the last leg last night. I'm thinking about putting the top back on the lathe to take "one more pass" so the tenon on the legs seat all the way. There is a small lip on the bottom to make it more easy to grab and I need to move it over an eighth of an inch so the shoulder doesn't hit it. I still have more sanding in my future but my arms are too sore from fighting the interrupted cuts.
Like that leg shape!
Working on a 17-1/2” spalted maple today.
Channeled my inner @Alan Weinberg. I really liked the look of the coins, so gave it an attempt with the LatheEngraver. I just used a couple of pieces of stock I already had to cut the coins, so not a lot of thought went into the color contrast. One side was spaced better than the other. To do all the pocketing for both sides took 1 hour, 12 minutes. There were two cuts done for each pocket. The first actual made the pocket in the bowl. The coins were glued in, and then a second run was done to remove most of the material to make room for the next coin.
Hahah!
Nice work!