Well, the rest of it looks great!
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What’s on your lathe?
- Thread starter Rusty Nesmith
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Been working on ornament globes. The blue and green ones are Maple, the red and yellow are Cherry burl. The one in front is Tasmanian Blackwood. The finial/icicle is Ebony that I made for another globe but thought it was too small. I think it will work better on the red globe.
Box elder, 6" finished with Myland's. You can't see it, but it has a bit of quilting.
Phil, one like this may be able to be glued back together. The problem is clamping it. this is where the stretch film comes in very handy.
robo hippy
Great idea David! The wife loves it.
This is another cherry that I finished today. 12” diameter. I roughed 8 bowls out of a partial trunk that a friend gave me. Tried and true Danish. Will buff when cured.
Couple of pieces went flying when it hit the concrete floor. I did try to see if it would match back up. Thanks for the idea though.
You’re welcome, no charge😁!
Met a guy today who does logging for a living. He also has a mill he plays with on weekends. He told me today I could go there and grab all the walnut, sycamore and other pieces that I wanted. Hopefully will go this weekend!
Nice James! Is that a Woodmaster drum sander in back?
Nice job. That's an interesting piece of wood. The twist gives it even more character.
These are replacement bobbins, made from maple and tree of Heaven. The original bobbin is on the left.
Soon to be on the lathe. salad bowl blanks of walnut and maple. In the foreground, box elder for hollowed urns. End grain has glue applied to reduce checking until I can get to them. Most are 6 inches thick. 
Nice.
Do you find the glue to be better than painting the ends?
Do you thin the glue?
Thanks,
Bob
Hi Bob. I do find it better than paint. Glue is thicker, I don’t thin it.
Playing with padauk today. Hollowed and finished. I'm thinking holly for the finials.
My wife’s co-worker is retiring. They went out to eat last week, and Alyse came home and said “uhh, I told Susan that you made a bowl for her”. 😂 Fortunately, I have a couple of boxes of roughouts. I chose a small-ish Black Oak blank, and finish-turned this earlier today. Right at 8” diameter, and finished with T&T Danish oil. Still need to add another coat or two. It’s been forever since I turned an open form bowl—so nice that the shaving eject automatically. Ha, the little things in life…
When the 4 year old granddaughter wakes up from a nap and wants PaPa in the house😁…to be continued…
Also, have some walnut bowls for sale with some assembly required 😁
Also, have some walnut bowls for sale with some assembly required 😁
Nice shape on that one! My wife is a retired school teacher and would always ask if I had a bowl she could give someone😁.
Just finished another segmented/resin bowl today ... thinking these may be this year's XMas gifts (Cherry segments, 11" top dia, 6" tall, Watco Danish oil followed by Beal buff wheels).
Orig idea from Forman Woodworking with a couple mods of my own. Like doing these once in awhile since no need to be exact with segment cuts ;-)
Other "In Process" pics of the one before this here (Oak segments, Orange resin)
Orig idea from Forman Woodworking with a couple mods of my own. Like doing these once in awhile since no need to be exact with segment cuts ;-)
Other "In Process" pics of the one before this here (Oak segments, Orange resin)
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Ha. Years ago, we moved and the company paid for the movers (those were the days). Anyway, I had several mesquite logs. The mover guy said "we don't normally move firewood". I replied, "No, that's unfinished furniture." And he put them on the dolly and rolled 'em onto the truck.
Turned a couple small walnut crotch yesterday. I had a birch tree blow down during the hurricane and turned a couple out of it. Never turned birch and it was like cutting butter, we’ll see how it turns when dry. May try a couple hollow forms out of it.
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Wonder which member and when will turn this great thread to page 100!!!
I wasn’t planning on turning today since I was just cleaning up the shop by killing a couple hours while my wife was busy with one of her projects. I decided to clean my work bench where I had built a shelving unit for a friend last week and move some drying bowls around to make room for some green turnings. I pulled out a maple bowl that was first turned over a year ago, like what I saw and decided to do the second turn. Neve finished cleaning the shop or workbench😁.
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Playing with a bunch of small maple pieces today.
a piece of burl that bugs previously really enjoyed. Hope they left me enough. 
So far has turned out well. 
So far has turned out well.
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Giving a pear bowl a second turning tonight. I'll finish it tomorrow.
What coring system do you use?
Thx Bob ... I used rice to measure how much resin is required. ...
Filled it with rice, dumped the rice out and weighed it, then used a conversion from grams of rice to grams of resin required.
Conversion table was found as an appendix in Keith Lackner's book - Woodturning with Resin: Techniques & Projects for Turning Works of Art