Looks good.  Sure is pink.

Trying to get done on this wood off my floor. Today working on an old walnut log a club member gave me. Doing a closed hollow form. Boy do the sanding scratches show on this one. 

That looks like a real challenge.  I don't have the patience for hollowing.

Not that bad once you get tools to do the job. Now doing this without the jigs does get nerve racking.

Put a coat of shellac on and that finishes the bowl on this project. Now to turn a collar , then done lacquer. 

9 hours ago, Gerald said:

Put a coat of shellac on and that finishes the bowl on this project. Now to turn a collar , then done lacquer. 

 

When you are doing a bowl like this one, especially like this one with a small opening.  How long can you work inside the bowl before having to stop and clean the shaving out?  It looks like it would multiply the time required by several times?

11 hours ago, Gerald said:

Put a coat of shellac on and that finishes the bowl on this project. Now to turn a collar , then done lacquer. 

That's some beautiful wood, @Gerald

2 hours ago, Cal said:

 

When you are doing a bowl like this one, especially like this one with a small opening.  How long can you work inside the bowl before having to stop and clean the shaving out?  It looks like it would multiply the time required by several times?

 

Not speaking for Gerald, but I'll give you my limited experience. I use compressed air. It's takes 4-5 seconds to blow out the shavings. Some forms may not be suitable to this methods (very small openings, for example).

3 hours ago, Cal said:

 

When you are doing a bowl like this one, especially like this one with a small opening.  How long can you work inside the bowl before having to stop and clean the shaving out?  It looks like it would multiply the time required by several times?

It is a little more difficult to hollow when the shavings build up and usually I judge by that. On some woods it is worse and in this form when cutting the low part of this form the shavings accumulate by rotational force and you have to stop more frequently to clear the shavings with air. i do not have a specific time but it is not long just something you develop a feeling for . As a recommendation to a beginner maybe every minute for this form as a guide to clearing shavings. Yes this slows the job but a closed form like this takes much longer than a simple bowl when shavings just fall out.

 

This whole time thing is like when do I sharpen. Answer if you are fleeing resistance you probably need to sharpen and that works for clearing shavings also. 

Edited May 3, 20241 yr by Gerald

Excellent @Gerald Beautiful grain and color.

On 4/9/2024 at 10:30 AM, calabrese55 said:

Well it is taking longer than i wanted. Made up a bunch of segments to be filled with black resin with gold resin veins, pics here are before resin was added. Unfortunately some idiot in my shop ( ME !!!!! ) managed to leave the valve on the pressure pot opened and  still hooked to the compressor. So when I shut down the compressor and blew it down it also blew down the pressure pot...BOOM GOES THE DINOMITE. Instant loss with was more bubbles in the resin than a Lawrence Welk Show . ( Anyone with no concept of black and white TV or rotary dial phones  will not get the Lawrence Welk relate).

Ok so we start over. I spent two weeks making another set of segments this time all are solid wood, I am out of resin at the moment. The pics here are yellow birch and zebra wood blanks soon to be the second shot of finishing this vase. Really want to get this vase to the finish line BUT I really need to slow down.

I HATE PAYING FOR THE SAME GROUND TWICE !!!!!!!!

calabrese55

 

 

49 minutes ago, calabrese55 said:

Instant loss with was more bubbles in the resin than a Lawrence Welk Show . ( Anyone with no concept of black and white TV or rotary dial phones  will not get the Lawrence Welk relate)

Sorry to hear of the loss Mike...at least no woodworkers were injured during the making of this vase

 

As for Lawrence, still watch him (well reruns) most ever Saturday evening.

 

Godspeed going forward. Don't forget to read and understand the operators manuals before operating any machinery, and don't forget (these) to wear your safety glasses.

Edited May 3, 20241 yr by Grandpadave52

21 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Sorry to hear of the loss Mike...at least no woodworkers were injured during the making of this vase

 

As for Lawrence, still watch him (well reruns) most ever Saturday evening.

 

Godspeed going forward. Don't forget to read and understand the operators manuals before operating any machinery, and don't forget (these) to wear your safety glasses.

Thanks Dave and all for you support.

Dave you said at least no woodworkers were injured during the making of this vase.  While that is true there is a big hole in my pride where the bravado ran out. It was amazing to see how much air can be extracted from such a small volume of resin. This only took a second for me to realize I left the valve on the pot feed line open and close the valve on the compressor drain stopping the loss of most of the pressure. I caught it well before it went to atmospheric pressure but no dice, just bubbles.

calabrese55

2 hours ago, calabrese55 said:

It was amazing to see how much air can be extracted from such a small volume of resin.

Many years ago, I helped a fellow teacher startup a "cold casting" business. We used something called cold cast porcelain. A mixture of resin and porcelain. The items created through the process had to be absolutely bubble free- at leas on the surface. We had a lot of difficulty getting the bubbles removed. We tried vacuuming. We tried pressure. It wasn't until we used both, in quick succession, that we were successful. Vacuum first then into the pressure chamber. Our cast pieces were then sent back to the artists who finished them by painting. 

 

Our first customer was a turtle devotee. He created a single piece, that we duplicated and returned for finishing.

 

A piece from our collaboration

 

 

Turned the collar of Spalted pecan and  finial of an unknown exotic. Now to turn off the stubb on bottom and apply lacquer.

 

Wondrous Gerald.  Nicely done.

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Turned the collar of Spalted pecan and  finial of an unknown exotic. Now to turn off the stubb on bottom and apply lacquer.

 

Really like that finial!

Most excellent @Gerald. Very unique.

Saved the root ball on the two Japanese yews I dug up. Ok light goes on root ball great character. So this is the first one. Don’t care if it warps or waves as that would be good so turned to complete. 

 

 

Expected more color but did get lots of grain. 

Nice Gerald.  Color may come as it dries.