This is from the Oregon Myrtle I received from Reed Gray in May of this year, 12” X 12” X 5” heavy and dripping wet.
I decided then to slab it into 2 equal pieces so as to have two pieces to turn.
I figured to make a shallow piece and a footed piece, the shallow piece is shown here, so 12” X 2.5” approx.
The wood is not a easily turned wood, as I discovered right away while rough turning it, but by the time I got close to the final shape I had found how to get a clean cut with my cutting tools, no scrapers for me here.
The footed piece I will show in a separate post.
I sanded this piece up to 600 grit, than added 2 coats of my regular Tung oil finish, this wood has some figure and shows chatoyance when viewed while changing the angle while looking at it, it also shows the first slight sign of fungal staining on the endgrain, probably from being packed in a plastic bag while being shipped to my address up here, only a very close look will show it, not bad at all.
Comments, any and all are welcome .
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