This is a deviation from the turning that I generally do.
The set of three little pots, each 4"w x 5"h, has been turned from some pretty wormy elm. As a matter of fact, a pretty fat living worm got turned in the process. Hope he enjoyed his last meal. Anyhow, usually I turn these pots to anywhere from 1/8" to maybe 1/4" thick but due to the amount of worm holes in this wood they were turned to 3/8" to 1/2" thick. (I do NOT strive for exact evenly thick walls in these things). I emphasized the holes with india ink and finished with 5 coats of cherry flavored danish oil.
The larger bowl was turned from heavily spalted, very green magnolia. It is 8.5"w x 7.5"h with walls 1.75" thick. It checked badly while being turned and I filled the cracks with CA glue and some of the larger ones with epoxy. About a month after I finished it, the cracks all closed up and pushed the fillings out. I had to resand the whole damned thing and refinish it. I thank the Lord I didn't get a chance to sell it before this happened. As a result, this bowl's original 320 grit sanding ended up at 600 grit and has probably 15 coats of various colors of danish oil. This is one heavy sucker, it is part of what I call my "paperweight" series of bowls. I have another one of these things as a work in progress and as a result of what I learned with the first one, before I got involved in finishing it, I set it aside and it did just like the other one, the cracks all closed up and pushed out the fillings. I have sanded it down but will leave it sitting a couple more weeks, just to make sure, before I get to finishing it.
Any thoughts on this heavy stuff?
Wolf