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David nice piece, I have used thin CA to help prevent new turnings from splitting, also knots and the pith areas on the rim, just that bit of CA will strengthen and also slow down the drying of these spots, better outcome.
Got a picture here that shows where I did this, knots and pith areas and inclusions, the bowls dried without splits and were returned and finished.
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That is gorgeous. Looks like marble in so many ways. Although I don't think I've seen that brown color in marble.
Gregory
I did soak the pith area with thin CA on both bowls. It surprisingly soaked it up fairly well, usually green wet wood won’t soak up CA that great but these did.
Follow up to my previous post. My new pendant jig with an apple pendant mounted on it. Shows how the screwdriver can access a clamp screw to re-clock the pendant to drill and finish the hole in the desired position.
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Worked on a shallow bowl tonight. It's about 8 inches across. I'm not happy with the inside so I think I'm going to put it back on the lathe and keep working on it. It's oak.
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Sweetgum with some bug holes and a bit of spalting.
Wow!
Small ash hollow form. I'm fixin' to turn off the tenon nub in this shot. 4" or so, finished with Myland's. You can see a little ding where I bumped it with the tool rest. 
Grabbed a walnut chunk off of the floor. Walnut oil so far.
A small sipa(*) twig pot, slightly larger than the one I posted in the gallery, this one commissioned by a friend. Applying BLO now, then shellac over the weekend.
I decided to make the first twig pot after getting an email about this Rude Osolnik auction. I wasn't intending to make a copy, but clearly I had Osolnik's piece in my mind!
(*) I think? I keep getting my sapele and sipa blanks mixed up.
I decided to make the first twig pot after getting an email about this Rude Osolnik auction. I wasn't intending to make a copy, but clearly I had Osolnik's piece in my mind!
(*) I think? I keep getting my sapele and sipa blanks mixed up.
Finished this small walnut bowl, 7" x 2". It had a recess on the bottom I'm trying to decide whether to make it a footed bowl or leave it as is. The pencil line is the depth of the recess. What's everyone think? I've never made a footed bowl and thought this might be an opportunity.
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Another nomenclature problem for wood turners (most recent - "jam vs. friction" chucking). Many turners would call this a "footed" bowl as it is. If you are talking about carving away material to get 3-4 small feet I would say no. Not enough material to get a continuous artistic curve. But do it anyway ... good practice for the next one where you plan ahead.
Pulled a once turned blank out of the burn pile. It looked all moldy and rotten, I suspected it was punky but it wasn't. It turned very smoothly with very little tear out and it feels solid. I'm pretty sure it's oak.
Yes, I'm talking about making it a 3 footed bowl by carving away material.
I am attaching 2 photos of the process I used on an end grain bowl, however the amount of material in the bottom may not be enough to make that continuous curve. The grain orientation appears to be side grain on yours, so you would need to have a balky leg to make up for the weak side grain. The way you are set up you will not need the live center support as shown here, however your setup will not work for a natural edge bowl.
The continuous curve was checked with a profile transfer gauge that easily shows if the curve is continuous on both sides of the leg ring with a small cup center holding the bowl against the jam/friction chuck. On this bowl I marked the locations of the leg by setting the index then made a pencil mark off the tool rest and moving to the next index point, 120 degrees for 3 legs or 90 degrees for 4 legs. The marking jig as shown is used to mark each leg to assure similar contour.
This shows that the contour of the legs was cut close to the lines and then beginning to cut out the material between the legs. The final shaping can be done with files, sand paper, carving knives or whatever works for you.
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Refining the ability to do basket illusion lines in particular regions. 200 perfectly indexed horizontal segments in 25 minutes. I need to get some real beading tools to make those look nicer.
