What’s On Your Lathe?

[Gerald]

New way to turn a spoon . Was thinking of ordering Ron Browns new ladle jig but looked to YouTube and found this technique. You turn the handle and reorient to turn bowl . The en sand or carve the back. By the way the guy in the video used Easy Wood tools

 

[lew]

1 minute ago, Gerald said:

New way to turn a spoon . Was thinking of ordering Ron Browns new ladle jig but looked to YouTube and found this technique. You turn the handle and reorient to turn bowl . The en sand or carve the back. By the way the guy in the video used Easy Wood tools

 

Great looking spoon!

[teesquare]

Just finished turning the most difficult wood I have turned. Great Basin Poplar.because it is soft...AND highly figured-I believe this wood will tarot if you look at it mean....But - tons of shear scraping, super sharp tools, and massive time sanding from 60-5000....Yeah - It was worth it. Just a special piece of wood!

[forty_caliber]

WOW!  Great job!!!!

 

.40

[Grandpadave52]

32 minutes ago, teesquare said:

...Yeah - It was worth it. Just a special piece of wood!

I'd say. Gorgeous. View from your yard ain't too shabby either. Thanks for sharing both.

[Grandpadave52]

56 minutes ago, Gerald said:

New way to turn a spoon

Very creative. Turned (no pun intended) out awesome.

[lew]

@teesquare, that grain and chatoyance is awesome!

[teesquare]

8 hours ago, forty_caliber said:

WOW!  Great job!!!!

 

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Thanks .40. The wood is the star in this one!

[teesquare]

8 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

I'd say. Gorgeous. View from your yard ain't too shabby either. Thanks for sharing both.

Thanks Dave. Is it o.k. to post some pictures of the leaves here? The colors this year are really good.

[teesquare]

8 hours ago, lew said:

@teesquare, that grain and chatoyance is awesome!

Thanks Lew- yes, this piece of wood may be one of those that I will not see again. Don't think this one will make it to a gallery....

[calabrese55]

After some distraction managed to get the lower part of the vase into a glue up.

Material is curly maple & purpleheart. The complete vase (I hope) will look something like the layout detail board I use to design and work out the pieces.

calabrese55

Edited November 1, 2023 by calabrese55

[Grandpadave52]

4 hours ago, teesquare said:

Thanks Dave. Is it o.k. to post some pictures of the leaves here? The colors this year are really good.

Absolutely. We love pictures. The Free for All section in the Scrap Bin is designed for such. Looking forward to seeing more from your view.

 

[calabrese55]

Getting excited  like a kid at Christmas to get this small vase into one piece this weekend 

The pics here show the resin ring glue up onto the upper section  and the semi finished upper and lower sections dry stacked up. Working on the outer shape for the upper , the lower part will be contoured  at some point. 

The resin ring is Alumilite clear slow, I am new to using resin but I love this stuff. I learned a bunch of how to work with this product from Youtube vids by Jake Thompson . He does a great job of explaining , a little verbose at times but his instructions will not leave you hanging. 

The resin ring  is a muddled color mix of red/ purple and gold and should augment the purpleheart and maple nicely when polished up. Keeping my fingers crossed.

calabrese55

 

 

 

 

 

[lew]

43 minutes ago, calabrese55 said:

Getting excited  like a kid at Christmas to get this small vase into one piece this weekend 

The pics here show the resin ring glue up onto the upper section  and the semi finished upper and lower sections dry stacked up. Working on the outer shape for the upper , the lower part will be contoured  at some point. 

The resin ring is Alumilite clear slow, I am new to using resin but I love this stuff. I learned a bunch of how to work with this product from Youtube vids by Jake Thompson . He does a great job of explaining , a little verbose at times but his instructions will not leave you hanging. 

The resin ring  is a muddled color mix of red/ purple and gold and should augment the purpleheart and maple nicely when polished up. Keeping my fingers crossed.

calabrese55

 

 

 

 

 

That's gonna be gorgeous! I really like Alumilite products and Jake Thompson is the master. I try to catch his video pod casts whenever I can.

[calabrese55]

Thanks Lew

Always appreciate having you look into my madness and Jake Thompson is a valued source on many topics..

calabrese55

[calabrese55]

OK the turning part is done and into the sanding phase then finish.

Most nervous time for me because  too often round third and heading into home plate is where I usually get smacked with a dose of OH NO !!!!!!!

So far so good learning the double taper cut to produce the staves was an interesting learning process but I really liked that part because it was really new to me can't wait to try it again 

calabrese55

 

 

[lew]

7 minutes ago, calabrese55 said:

OK the turning part is done and into the sanding phase then finish.

Most nervous time for me because  too often round third and heading into home plate is where I usually get smacked with a dose of OH NO !!!!!!!

So far so good learning the double taper cut to produce the staves was an interesting learning process but I really liked that part because it was really new to me can't wait to try it again 

calabrese55

 

 

Lookin' Good! Like that dust collection setup!

[calabrese55]

22 minutes ago, lew said:

Lookin' Good! Like that dust collection setup!

My engineering department has an open budget to insure the best result.  I made sure they knew they could have all the chicken wire and bubble gum they needed 

calabrese55

[Grandpadave52]

20 minutes ago, calabrese55 said:

OK the turning part is done and into the sanding phase then finish.

This is one fantastic looking vase with the blend of woods and resin. It's gonna' be gorgeous with the finish.

[calabrese55]

5 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

This is one fantastic looking vase with the blend of woods and resin. It's gonna' be gorgeous with the finish.

Thanks Dave & Lew for looking in always good to hear from you guys alays.

calabrese55