.....I'm not kidding, one of you, or maybe a few of you "round" guys and/or gals must take the blame on this one.....
Oh yeah, I was just minding my own business, flipping through SMC, looking at all the lovely flatwork, then something caught my eye, a title on a thread like "Nice Butternut......" or "Yellowheart.......Bubinga" what the heck.....?
Now what are these guys talking about...I'd better go take a look at that stuff.....
I did not notice the thread was in the "Turners Forum", I'd been warned, so I stayed away until recently, but when you hit that "New Post" link/button, they give you ALL the new posts, even the ones from the non-flat areas of SMC.....
......so I get myself looking at all this round stuff, spinny stuff, GEORGOUS stuff.....and.....
yep, I'm sure I'm a goner now...........
I take one of the larger pieces of the Sakura (Cherry) that I have left, and my new electric chainsaw and chop it up into bowl blanks......
The new saw cuts really well!!
I stop at four blanks, I have the wood for another 4 easy, but for today, I stop at four....
OK there are the rough blanks.
I'm sitting there looking at these, and I'm thinking that while they are nice to look at, the grain is a little hard to see, so I figure I'll clean them up a bit.....
Now while I'm doing this, Big Blue (That is my old Hitachi Re-saw bandsaw) starts telling me how this is the kind of work that he was BORN to do, slicing up this nice wood.....
OK, it is getting late, I've got a cold, runny nose, headache, the whole body aches, but for the last hour or so, I've felt fine....?
The I look at the cut blank and I think "Hmm, the lathe on auction says it will turn 15cm over the bed, so I wonder how big one of these blanks will be....
I get out the protractor thing I have and measure off about 12 cm, to make a 24 cm bowl.....
....Cool!!....
Now I look at the square piece of wood, with a circle scribed in it, and I think.....
"That just don't look right....."
...back to Big Blue....
Now that is looking better, nice and sort of round, I can see some nice grain here, and some interesting colors.....
......so I do another one....
....the whole time, Big Blue is saying "Yeah, give me more, bet you can't bog me down!!"......and try as I might, I cannot....
...here is a close up of one of the blanks, looks nice, should be interesting, at least...
Heck, I don't even own a lathe yet......
Oh yeah, who is it that I blame for this............?
I'd like to thank them, that was fun...!
Cheers!
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