It's my sisters birthday, so I turned a few things for her. The surprize was remembering all the maple rounds I had stored in one of the sheds fo future use. Turns out it's developed some nice spalting.
OH My yes! Those are beautiful and the spalting in the bowl is spectacular.
RonB
WOW! That bowl is beautiful! Oddly I have some spalted oak that looks very very close to that in color.
And surrounded with maple.
Damn, that's purty! That bowl makes me want to go buy lathe.
So, is that your shop?
Thanks I was real pleased with the look and that I got most of the tree stored with the ends coated.
build the resaw jig so I can cut some boards out of the rounds. The spalted oak looks real good in the middle of the doors.
That is the shop, though I did get paint on everything this fall so it looks pretty good. There's another addition on the other side though not as large.
I learned the hard way to wear a face shield if it can come off. Didn't properly chuck something and gave myself a black eye.
Impressive ... and I'm envious. ;)
I have said this a few times lately, the new carbide tipped turning tools have a near zero learning curve. I have 3 and replaced all of my 15 or so other traditional turning tools.
Love it. Is there a base or foot on the bowl? What finish?
I have one, but I haven't used it much, maybe I'll give it another try. I've found that as I've got better at sharpening, specificaly the finger ground gouges and learned to use the bevel more I do pretty well. On the outside once the shape is roughed out I prefer to use a skew chisel the most.
Mike M
There is a slight concave on 1/2 the base. I'm able to chuck it up on a Oneway face set up for grabbing bowls so I turn the base last. If you look close at the far side you can see the start of a crack in the edge so it won't be holding liquids so I didn't worry about food safe. I used Watco natural danish oil and a few coats of a satin gel poly.
I taught our son to turn - he was turning by himself and after a number of nice items - one afternoon while I was at work he stabbed a block a bit aggressively and a half flung off and hit him in the face shield hood area. Just above the clear plastic. Snapped a nice silver dollar size half moon. - He hasn't turned since. That has been 12 years of so. Such is life. - He knows how to do a number of projects and maybe someday he will try again.
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Wine Stopper
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