We had to take down an old oak tree in our yard.  My son-in-law harvested a lot of the wood for me.  Mostly crotch wood, which are a bit small but I only have a Nova Comet II lathe.  Anyhow, I rough turned a small crotch and put it into a bag with wood chips.  About three months later I took it out and discovered a wide crack...no surprise there.  Filled with resin and finished turning it.  Sanded to about 12000 grit, hit it with some triple e and the final finish was Aussie oil.  It measures about 4 inches across and about 3 inches deep.

 

 

 

Gorgeous! Love the grain pattern and the color. Nice save on the crack!!

Very nice.  I love how you saved the character if the crotch into the bowl.

That is a beautiful piece of work!!!   NICE!!

Beautiful grain in that bowl! Very nice.

 

Steve

That's a great piece Pauley, hope you will share the others with us too

20 hours ago, lew said:

Gorgeous! Love the grain pattern and the color. Nice save on the crack!!

Thank you very much.

20 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Very nice.  I love how you saved the character if the crotch into the bowl.

At first, when the wood was still green, I really didn’t pay to much attention to that crack.  But I roughed turned it and bagged it to let it dry for about three months.  Then when I took it out to finish turning it I was very surprised.  It turned out to make it look pretty nice.  Thank you.

19 hours ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

That is a beautiful piece of work!!!   NICE!!

Thank you.

2 hours ago, Steve Krumanaker said:

Beautiful grain in that bowl! Very nice.

 

Steve

Thank you so much.

13 minutes ago, Cal said:

That's a great piece Pauley, hope you will share the others with us too

Thank you.

Nice job . Resin looks good in the crack, now you can try colors in the next one.

8 hours ago, Steve Krumanaker said:

Beautiful grain in that bowl! Very nice.

 

Steve

Hi, Steve!

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Nice job . Resin looks good in the crack, now you can try colors in the next one.

Thank you, sir.  I actually did add some resin with a black tint...i wanted to have it look like some of the other black spots on the bowl.

Wow!  Gorgeous...  

40 minutes ago, Jim from Easy Wood Tools said:

Wow!  Gorgeous...  

Thank you very much.

5 hours ago, lew said:

Hi, Steve!

Hey Lew!

Well done.....

6 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Well done.....

Thank,you.

Very nice. Beautiful piece of wood.