So doing the lamination thing again this morning I made a run to home depot.  I managed to pick up a 6 foot length of Pine lumber.  it was a bit bigger than I was expecting it to be how ever I managed to get what I needed out of it.  Unfortunately I tried looking for poplar and or maple wood... But they haven't gotten in a shipment of hardwood lumbers at all lately I'm assuming from the causes of the fires down in California... That's at least what the clerk told me.  So I wound up buying the pine.   I'm hoping that it will make a decent set of bowls and turn easily.  I cut it down to the length and width I wanted which was ultimately 6x6x3.  I was able to get two blanks out of the lot of material.  So off to a good start I'm hoping they will be dried out by this evening so I can round them out on the band saw and get started on them.  UPS seems to like to delay my packages when they say they deliver today it wont be here until monday so not very happy about that but at least I've got something to keep me busy while I'm waiting on my cook woods order.  I just hope these pine bowls turn out nicely.  It is another wood species I've wanted to try turning.

 

Edited October 17, 20205 yr by AndrewB

Sharp tools for Pine! Very soft. Sands easily, though.

 

I would definitely round these on the bandsaw before turning

Edited October 17, 20205 yr by lew

That was definitely the plan.  I still have enough left over from the two that I could possibly make a small platter.  I may give that a shot as well.

Also just got a score on some driftwood that's about 12 feet long according to my older brother.  They want to cut it up I told them Id take it off their hands and use it.  So I may have a deal out of that free wood LOL.

Looking good.  How do you stack the pieces?  I found a better look comes from "folding" the pieces at the cut lines.  Burning a line at the glue lines is another option.

I just glue stack repeat and clamp.  

Yea so far this bowl is turning out quite nicely.... And yep @lew you were right it sanded extremely easily.  Didn't even have to work for it to get a good finish....

The first bowl is coming out quite nicely actually just put the first coat of finish on and letting it dry.  So far the lathe seems quite stable but then again I didn't have a blank on it as of yet...