3 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.

Good looking hollow form.  Better than any I've done on my best day.  Way to go!!!!

 

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Not exactly on the lathe but I have from the first time I saw @Steve Krumanaker do a Phicops circle I wanted to learn. Finally looked up a video . It is not as hard as I thought it would be. However I will use a compass to draw circles. 

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Not exactly on the lathe but I have from the first time I saw @Steve Krumanaker do a Phicops circle I wanted to learn. Finally looked up a video . It is not as hard as I thought it would be. However I will use a compass to draw circles. 

Looking forward to seeing that one burned!

 

13 hours ago, Gerald said:

Not exactly on the lathe but I have from the first time I saw @Steve Krumanaker do a Phicops circle I wanted to learn. Finally looked up a video . It is not as hard as I thought it would be. However I will use a compass to draw circles.

 

Looking good Gerald. I felt exactly as you did the first time I saw phicops in a circle. What's really amazing to me is that something with such a big visual impact could be so easy to draw. I too use a compass as well as french curves when I draw it.

Having never heard of a phicops (though I have seen the shape) I had to look up the definition. I found something so useful I have to share it:

 "a genus (the type of the family Phacopidae) comprising Silurian and Devonian trilobites with a large rounded glabella and a large pygidium"

 

Everything you need to know.

On 9/14/2024 at 7:10 AM, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Having never heard of a phicops (though I have seen the shape) I had to look up the definition. I found something so useful I have to share it:

 "a genus (the type of the family Phacopidae) comprising Silurian and Devonian trilobites with a large rounded glabella and a large pygidium"

 

Everything you need to know.

 

Clear as mud.

Some spalted sycamore, some punky-some good. Hoping to become a salad bowl.

Another piece of sugarberry. This one is twice-turned. 

 

3 hours ago, kreisdorph said:

Another piece of sugarberry. This one is twice-turned. 

 

Beautiful spalting!!

2 hours ago, RustyFN said:

Cool! How will you handle the finger holes?

1 hour ago, lew said:

Cool! How will you handle the finger holes?

Just going to leave them open.

 

Another bowling bowl today.

1 hour ago, RustyFN said:

Just going to leave them open.

Thanks, Rusty!

2 hours ago, RustyFN said:

Just going to leave them open.

 Nice Rusty.  You could try to position one to make a mask.

 

Hays county pecan crotch bowl.  12.5 x 2.5.  This one is bone dry.  Has been in the kiln for a long while.  Hard as a rock. 

 

Wet sanded with walnut oil.  Finished with Acks.  Embellished with Renaissance Gold wax.  

 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, forty_caliber said:

Hays county pecan crotch bowl.  12.5 x 2.5.  This one is bone dry.  Has been in the kiln for a long while.  Hard as a rock. 

 

Wet sanded with walnut oil.  Finished with Acks.  Embellished with Renaissance Gold wax.  

 

 

 

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Gorgeous! Love the knots and branch ingrowths.

I cut this walnut down in April and haven't really touched it since. I took a section from the base. I roughed in a bowl for twice-turning, and made a couple of live edge bowls. I still have one blank to rough turn from that piece. The live edge bowls have funky grain and color for walnut. It's got some bug holes in it as well.

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Nice.  The grain is really something too.

10 hours ago, kreisdorph said:

I cut this walnut down in April and haven't really touched it since. I took a section from the base. I roughed in a bowl for twice-turning, and made a couple of live edge bowls. I still have one blank to rough turn from that piece. The live edge bowls have funky grain and color for walnut. It's got some bug holes in it as well.

 

Love the last one!