July 14, 20241 yr 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
August 30, 20241 yr Popular Post 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.
August 30, 20241 yr 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.
September 9, 20241 yr Popular Post 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.
September 9, 20241 yr 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.
September 9, 20241 yr Popular Post 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 .40
September 9, 20241 yr 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 .40 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
September 9, 20241 yr Popular Post 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!
September 9, 20241 yr 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!!!
September 10, 20241 yr 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 .40 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.
September 10, 20241 yr 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!
September 10, 20241 yr 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 .40 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.
September 10, 20241 yr Live oak rough turned bowl for the kiln. Had to keep stopping to sharpen the gouge. Easy enough to cut with a sharp tool. .40
September 10, 20241 yr 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.
September 10, 20241 yr 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. .40 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/
September 10, 20241 yr 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.
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