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As many seem to be enjoying the unusual woods we have here I thought I would post one more that I think is attractive. This is about 20 inches in dia. and 1/2 inch thick end grain turned. The wood is a log slice of Tigre Caspi a semi soft wood about like oak.
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JIm, That is an awesome piece. I love the grain pattern. Great work
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That sure is nice, kind of looks like roses, inside roses!
Cheers!
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Is that piece a pretty good(ie. typical) example of that type of wood's grain? ..Or was it selected specifically because that one had so much of it going on? If that's typical, i'm gonna have to try a piece of that!!!
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Jim that is a mighty fine looking platter. Love the grain pattern. Nice form and finish. Great job.
Bernie
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Jim that is a mighty fine looking platter. Love the grain pattern. Nice form and finish. Great job.
Bernie
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
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Jeff:
That is standard of the grain in this wood. I will attach aanother photo of the same wood in flat grain. This family of woods with the same type grain but different species come in colors from pink, violet, browns and black as we have found so far.
Last edited by Jim King; 06-19-2006 at 3:09 PM.
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Stu: Here is another species same idea . I actually named it the Rose.
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Jim this is very nice wood great form too. I have a couple of pieces of the same wood very small though about 4x4 inches that is. My wife and I turned a small bowl for a friend of hers for her birthday a couple of months ago, it does turn well but it made me sneeze something awful. I really liked the way it finished up and the lady was very pleased with it. Really like your work and the wood you have available is awsome as well.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]Tom
Turning comes easy to some folks .... wish I was one of them
and only 958 miles SE of Steve Schlumpf
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Gorgeous platter and bowls, Jim. Reminds me of a lighter, prettier version of zircote grain. Keep 'em coming. Love to see new things.
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Jim, that's really, really interesting! And it's not often you see an end-grain turned platter or even a flat bowl done that way. Very nice!
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Those are ALL LOVELY, Jim!
Bruce
"The great thing about Wood Turning is that all you have to do is remove what's not needed to have something beautiful. Nature does tha Hard work."
M.H. Woodturning, Etc.
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Jim: End grain turning of log slices is quite easy. First thing is they dry very fast as the slices are only three or four inches thick and the water litterally runs out of the slices. The only tricky part is the first step of mounting it on the lathe to turn a perfectly flat surface. If it doesnt blow up here you have it made. Then I glue onto the flat surface 3/4 inch boards for the face flate to be mounted on and have at it. When done with the bowl or platter just turn off the 3/4 inch backer board from the back side down to the face plate. Take it off remount in the donut and finish the botton.
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Yes, I can see that it's a very nice thing to do...I may actually try it given the pile of fresh logs I have available. Hopefully, I can do it without the log slice falling victim to the tendency of radial cracking as it dries...
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