Here's a small bowl I turned out of Chittam wood for my wife.
Here's a small bowl I turned out of Chittam wood for my wife.
Jack, I really like that! Looks like the lid fits VERY well. Good job.
Jeff Sudmeier
"It's not the quality of the tool being used, it's the skills of the craftsman using the tool that really matter. Unfortunately, I don't have high quality in either"
Very nice! Where did you get the wood, and how was it to turn?
Bob
Spinning is good on a lathe, not good in a Miata.
Beautiful work... The finish is outstanding... Looking forward to seeing more.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.
Thanks for the feedback! Bob I got the wood from my bro-outlaw. He has had it storing for 10 years and he let me have some of it to work with. I was able to get burls and logs because it was pulled up out of the ground by a backhoe where the land was being cleared to build a house. I'm waiting on buying a larger lathe to turn some of the burls, but that could be a while. I'm working on making boards from the logs so that I can build some small boxes, picture frames etc. It is a very easy wood to turn, very dense grain. I hope to post some more things as I learn what to do with it.
I never heard of chittam wood before. Where does it grow and how does it work? Like the color and the design.
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Jack............. That is one SWEET lidded Box.
Bruce
Don this is a small tree that grows in the hills around this area and is wide spread across the south from my understanding. It goes by several names and is sometimes confused with the "hedge Apple" tree. Here is a link to a Al ag ext. page that describes it better.
http://www.forestry.state.al.us/publ...smoke-tree.pdf
It is a beatiful wood that has spectacular burls.
Don I found this from the TX ag dept. that tells about it in your neck of the woods. By the way, I am an "honorary Texan" as my sister and her native Texan husband "adopted" me for when I visit them in McKinney Tx north of Big "D".
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/o...usobovatus.htm
Here's a good picture that shows the tree. If you look at the base of the tree you can see the large burls that are common to this tree.
Excellent design. Just don't let TLOML know that you made something for your wife, because then I would never get anything else done.