Dave,
That's the biggest buck we've seen around here for a while (a ten pointer). I live in an area in transition from rural to suburban, in a very large cul de sac of woodland likely to be left...
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Dave,
That's the biggest buck we've seen around here for a while (a ten pointer). I live in an area in transition from rural to suburban, in a very large cul de sac of woodland likely to be left...
Some of the critters wandering around in my back yard.
Hal
Mike,
That looks so good I half expect to see a spoon in it.
Hal
Beautiful wood, Leo !
You could get lost in that curly grain. I really like what you did with the rim, nice detail.
Hal
Jim,
You might try glueing a scrap piece on the top, to be turned off or split off(with a paper separator) after you turn a tennon and however much you want on the back. Or glue a tennon block to...
I've got a question for you. I'm fairly new here, and have seen "BLO" mentioned a few times, without explanation. The forum search can't handle a three letter word, so I have to admit my ignorance...
Happy birthday, George !!!
Go tear up some wood !
Hal
Not my two front teeth, but a back molar. Not only did I miss the Oneway Talon chuck sale, but my computer caught a nasty social disease, keeping me off the internet for a while. Between the two,...
Leo,
I really like the way you echoed the double beaded rim at the foot. And as usual a beautiful piece of wood.
Hal
Thanks, Leo
It's starting to look like I'm going to end up with the mulberry group. The thin offcuts from prepping the blank have remained stubbornly yellow, and the underbark is definitly more...
Congratulations on the lathe !
Those Powermatics, like the Olivers, were designed to survive generations of highschool kids, and thats tough ! OWWM, definitely for info. I find EBAY best for parts...
Paul,
funny you should mention that. I have never knowingly crossed paths with mulberry, so I did a forum search, and MB and OO seem to be some of the woods hardest to distinguish from each other....
OK, just for clarity, I know the one in my yard is definitely an OO, They're gendered, and the one in the picture is male. In the surrounding woods there are seven or eight females, that produce your...
OK, I seem to be in wood species ID limbo this week. In case it matters, the grain close-up picture isn't color correct, there is no green caste to it, and the underbark reads yellowish-orange. Jim,...
The pith is definitely checked, and hopefully I've got the walls down thin enough. I don't mind the checks aesthetically, will they propagate into the rest, or stay put? Might have to chalk one up to...
While firewood pile diving, I came accross a couple of interesting 10" or so Osage Orange trunk sections, freshly cut. For some reason around here everyone thinks of Osage as firewood, both a good...
Weighing all the evidence, Russ and Leo win the day. I compared endgrain slices and flatgrain of my log and commercial red oak, and they're so close as makes no difference. I think the spalting...
Ray,
Outwater hardware carries an Accuride lock-open drawer slide that is intended for cutting board drawers, might do what you want.
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Beautiful bowl, Leo
Could you post a picture of the bottom with tennon? I'm working through a learning curve about newer turning methods, considering chucks, etc. and would like to see how you prep...
Leo and Russ,
I don't dismiss your opinions, so Monday (the remaining pieces are at work) I'm going to take some long grain and bark pictures and post them. I'm thinking all the end grain and crotch...
Russ,
It has a lot in common with red oak, but there's little dark flecks throughout the wood that I've only seen before in chestnut. My house is a chestnut barn, and I'm pretty used to it. Also,...
Fortunately I've run out of burls and can go back to turning "normal" things. We'll not be discussing burls for now.
This is a bowl turned from a spalted crotch log, from a friend's woodpile,...
It's hard to be certain with a small picture and no smell, but it sure looks like teak, definitely not koa.
Curtis,
save me some writing time, and read back in this thread and the previous 'This isn't going to work' thread.
Hal
Jim,
The reason for all that junk was to preserve the complete outside of the burl, and only cut the entry hole. The surface of the object has a realy outstanding texture and I wanted to try to...