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What’s on your lathe?

A maple burl bowl finished up late last night.......

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Lots of great figure, but along with that is drying separations, voids, bark inclusions, worm holes, and various other
obstacles to a refined cut......but do-able! 🙂

=o=
 
Odie said:
A maple burl bowl finished up late last night.......

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Lots of great figure, but along with that is drying separations, voids, bark inclusions, worm holes, and various other
obstacles to a refined cut......but do-able! 🙂

=o=
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Another one of your beautiful bowls. It’s nice to see you back at the lathe.

Bob
 
@David Wyke, it looks like chocolate and caramel sauces oozing down from the rim of your bowl. I bet a couple scoops of ice cream would look great in that bowl.
 
Tonight, copper is on my lathe. I'm cutting two 1" copper pipe couplings
(1-7/32" OD, 1-1/8" ID) into four tool handle ferrules for 3 new Carter scrapers I ordered today. They have 3/4" round tangs.

I found my little wheeled pipe cutter thingy was good to only 3/4" pipe, and my hacksaw blade was about toast. I put the coupling in the spigot jaws on my Talon, ran it backwards at 100rpm, and VERY carefully ran a Dremel cutoff wheel (a couple of them) to slowly part it in two. My Stott 1/8" parting tool wanted nothing to do with that hard copper. Then filed, sanded, steel wool buffed, and reamed the cut ends. I feel like a jeweler now.

Something deep back in a dusty, dark corner of my memory is telling me that copper couplings are a harder alloy than hard copper pipe (such as K and L copper pipe). Maybe the little wheeled cutter wouldn't have cut it anyway.
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This one was saved from the fire, literally. I had a big bonfire to burn up all the crowns from trees I have cut down and some odds and ends. Most of the fire was done when I went to bed. The next day there were a few unburned logs. A sugarberry crotch was among the unburnt. Apparently it wasn't interesting enough for me to turn it when I threw it on the pile, but when I saw it I couldn't pass it up. It's a bit punky but salvageable.

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Something a bit different. I’m collaborating with someone on a project where we are creating a bunch of individual tiles. Many different styles and degrees of simplicity/complexity. Here is one in the works. Peruvian Walnut tile (2-3/8” square), acrylic gouache paint, and betel nut jewel attached with a 1/4” dowel.

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Just got this one off the lathe. I turned the outside and started the inside just enough so I could flatten it with a sanding board then glued a ring of mahogany on that I had hanging around for a few years. Finished the turning then wiped it down with Watco Teak Oil followed by Deft lacquer satin spray. After it dried good I polished it with Yorkshire grit. As soon as I took it upstairs my wife claimed it for her chairside table.
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