1 hour ago, Gerald said:

This is a practice piece as the club Open Shop is Tuesday and I will be doing the opening demo on plates. This is in Spalted Swamp Maple. 
 

Beautiful piece of wood, @Gerald

Been trying to finish things that have been sitting for a while. So completed second turn on these. 

 

Then put this crepe myrtle on lathe. Great figure so did a dye and sand job. Black dye, sand most off, coral red dye and sand some off then yellow dye. 
 

Nice color on that vase @Gerald!

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Then put this crepe myrtle on lathe. Great figure so did a dye and sand job. Black dye, sand most off, coral red dye and sand some off then yellow dye. 

 

Very nice.  Love the coloring.

MASTERFUL.............Excellent result on the dye application !

We cut a Laurel Oak so decided to try some. In addition I may have a new turner in the family. Youngest son wanted a staff to go with a head I carved for him a couple years ago and he wanted to turn it. 

 

 

13 minutes ago, Gerald said:

We cut a Laurel Oak so decided to try some. In addition I may have a new turner in the family. Youngest son wanted a staff to go with a head I carved for him a couple years ago and he wanted to turn it. 

 

 

He will have a great teacher!

 

Never had the opportunity to turn that species. The grain looks similar to red oak but the leaves sorta resemble our Mountain-laurel.

11 minutes ago, lew said:

He will have a great teacher!

 

Indeed he will!

It's official.  I've been retired from corporate hell for about a week. 

 

Got a pickup load of live oak (mostly crotches) from a big tree in Belville that didn't make it through hurricane Beryl.  The main trunk is over 6' in diameter.   All of the wood is from the limbs.

 

Incidentally, that storm took one of my antenna masts, uprooted two trees, and one of the trees took a corner of our house.  Got all of that repaired by the way. 

 

Cut up one of the logs today and got a 12x4 bowl blank ready.  I've never worked with this wood before but the grain has some nice features.  Lots of medullary rays visible in the grain.  Plan on introducing it to the gouge later this week.  Alw

 

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3 hours ago, forty_caliber said:

It's official.  I've been retired from corporate hell for about a week. 

 

Got a pickup load of live oak (mostly crotches) from a big tree in Belville that didn't make it through hurricane Beryl.  The main trunk is over 6' in diameter.   All of the wood is from the limbs.

 

Incidentally, that storm took one of my antenna masts, uprooted two trees, and one of the trees took a corner of our house.  Got all of that repaired by the way. 

 

Cut up one of the logs today and got a 12x4 bowl blank ready.  I've never worked with this wood before but the grain has some nice features.  Lots of medullary rays visible in the grain.  Plan on introducing it to the gouge later this week.  Alw

 

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Nice score on the wood!  

In the early days of CB, the saying was that if your antenna didn't come down in a storm- it wasn't big enough

I had Kirk DeHeer on my lathe🤣.

Then he and I went to John C Campbell folk school to teach woodturning. What a great place!

19 minutes ago, teesquare said:

I had Kirk DeHeer on my lathe🤣.

Then he and I went to John C Campbell folk school to teach woodturning. What a great place!

Awesome!!!

9 hours ago, forty_caliber said:

It's official.  I've been retired from corporate hell for about a week. 

 

Got a pickup load of live oak (mostly crotches) from a big tree in Belville that didn't make it through hurricane Beryl.  The main trunk is over 6' in diameter.   All of the wood is from the limbs.

 

Incidentally, that storm took one of my antenna masts, uprooted two trees, and one of the trees took a corner of our house.  Got all of that repaired by the way. 

 

Cut up one of the logs today and got a 12x4 bowl blank ready.  I've never worked with this wood before but the grain has some nice features.  Lots of medullary rays visible in the grain.  Plan on introducing it to the gouge later this week.  Alw

 

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Live Oak does have beautiful interlocking grain. It does move a lot. I did a 14 inch platter and it turned into a taco while drying . Was able to get it mostly flat with water spritz and cauls. the next one was put in cauls right away. 

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Live Oak does have beautiful interlocking grain. It does move a lot. I did a 14 inch platter and it turned into a taco while drying . Was able to get it mostly flat with water spritz and cauls. the next one was put in cauls right away. 

Gorgeous, Gerald!

 

Gorgeous Gerald !

Paul

23 hours ago, forty_caliber said:

It's official.  I've been retired from corporate hell for about a week. 

 

Got a pickup load of live oak (mostly crotches) from a big tree in Belville that didn't make it through hurricane Beryl.  The main trunk is over 6' in diameter.   All of the wood is from the limbs.

 

Incidentally, that storm took one of my antenna masts, uprooted two trees, and one of the trees took a corner of our house.  Got all of that repaired by the way. 

 

Cut up one of the logs today and got a 12x4 bowl blank ready.  I've never worked with this wood before but the grain has some nice features.  Lots of medullary rays visible in the grain.  Plan on introducing it to the gouge later this week.  Alw

 

 

 

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Congrats on retirement!

 

I have never turned live oak. I was in Savannah, GA this summer and it is literally everywhere down there. Live oak is considerably harder than all the other oaks at 2700 Janka hardness. It also has a better T/R ratio (1.4) vs. red and white oaks. 

Live oak rough turned bowl for the kiln.  Had to keep stopping to sharpen the gouge.  Easy enough to cut with a sharp tool. 

 

 

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Mulberry hollow form, 6" x 2.5". Finished (poorly) with shellac. I'm learning hollow forms. This is probably the third one I have successfully completed.

1 minute ago, forty_caliber said:

Live oak rough turned bowl for the kiln.  Had to keep stopping to sharpen the gouge.  Easy enough to cut with a sharp tool. 

 

 

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Looking Good!  

 

Something interesting about Live Oak-

https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article-View/Article/3122923/uss-constitution-and-the-legacy-of-live-oak/

2 minutes ago, kreisdorph said:

Mulberry hollow form, 6" x 2.5". Finished (poorly) with shellac. I'm learning hollow forms. This is probably the third one I have successfully completed.

 

Wow, Nice! Love the shape!! The couple I've done, I painted the inside flat black to hid the fact that I couldn't sand the inside.