What’s On Your Lathe?

[RustyFN]

Spalted maple.

 

[lew]

Great thread, Rusty! Let's keep it going!!

[forty_caliber]

For sale. Powermatic PM2014.  Unplugged and sitting to the side.  

 

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[Steve Krumanaker]

1" diameter, 1 foot long brass tube. Planning to cut it into ferrules for a chisel handles commission.

[RustyFN]

12 hours ago, forty_caliber said:

For sale. Powermatic PM2014.  Unplugged and sitting to the side.  

 

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Get your new lathe yet?

[forty_caliber]

Supposed to deliver today.  Waiting on another part (tool shelf coming in from Ontario) to arrive before I can unbox and assemble.  Legs and power box have to be detached to install it. So it will be next week sometime before it's running.

 

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[forty_caliber]

Gosh, that crane sure comes in handy. 

 

 

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[lew]

Little maple bowl when moisture equalizes 

[HandyDan]

Still with the little bowls.  Might gift these for Christmas.  There's a 4" and some 3" and some smaller.

 

 

 

 

[lew]

Sweet, Dan! Red oak??

[HandyDan]

4 hours ago, lew said:

Sweet, Dan! Red oak??

 

Standing up in the back is Ash,  The one in the front and the the one next to the Ash are some type of Oak but not White Oak and I don't believe Read oak either.  Pin Oak?  The other four are Elm.  I tried to texture one of the Elm today but it was too brittle and did not work out well.  Turned it off and gave up on it.  The one on the lathe is Elm.

Edited February 17, 2023 by HandyDan

[Cal]

8 hours ago, HandyDan said:

not White Oak and I don't believe Read oak either.  Pin Oak?  The other four are Elm. 

 

Rightly or wrongly - I've always thought that oaks were either red or white with all the different varieties and species being subsets of either red or white.  Pin oak is pretty common in our area and is a red oak variety.

Those elm bowls are very nice, all of them are actually, but the elms have a beautiful color.  What type of elm would they be?

[HandyDan]

1 hour ago, Cal said:

 

Rightly or wrongly - I've always thought that oaks were either red or white with all the different varieties and species being subsets of either red or white.  Pin oak is pretty common in our area and is a red oak variety.

Those elm bowls are very nice, all of them are actually, but the elms have a beautiful color.  What type of elm would they be?

 

You're right Cal.  The Oak bowl has the Red Oak color but the grain is smaller/tighter and the pores are tinier than I usually see in Oak I find around here.  This came out of a firewood pile.  I went looking and found this Black Oak picture and this is what mine looked like.  It is in the Red Oak genre.  The Elm is from my yard but I don't know what type it was.

 

Edited February 17, 2023 by HandyDan

[Gerald]

Couple walnut bowls in progress. Both from same dead tree not 8inches apart. 
 

 

[John Morris]

I missed this one, this is a great topic! Right on @RustyFN! Lets keep it going for sure! Hey Lew, you should pin this to the top?

[lew]

Thanks and done!

[Gerald]

The finished bowls with lid. Walnut bowl with pecan lids. 

[HandyDan]

These are off the lathe.  Fourteen bowls with wipe on poly.  Just got done with them.  Seven are posted above before the finish.  @' To 5.25" diameters.

 

[lew]

Gorgeous @HandyDan! Do you apply the wipe on poly while the lathe is spinning?

[forty_caliber]

New lathe setup.  Powermatic PM2014 sold.  

 

 

Five bowls turned on the new lathe in the kiln.  All pecan some with spalting.  

 

 

Can't say enough good things about the swivel head feature on the RP.  Allows more ergonomic tool access when hollowing.  No leaning over the work trying to get an angle on the gouge. 

 

Gathered all the off cuts, failed specimens, funnels, disasters, and other unusable bits and sacrificed to the fire gods.  6 big cart loads over to the fire pit.  Fire burned for 12 hours.  Now I'm going to have to make another woodpile. 

 

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