Has anybody here ever worked with this in turning? I'd like to try it... but I'm assuming you need to find cut offs. It's called Parallam used in I-beam construction.
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Has anybody here ever worked with this in turning? I'd like to try it... but I'm assuming you need to find cut offs. It's called Parallam used in I-beam construction.
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No, I have never tired it but I have read that it is hard on the gouges. Was it?
It looks nice and it would have been nice to be able to expand the picture to get a better look. It is hard to tell how the wood/glue looks.
Toney
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One of the men in our turning club has made and sold several bowls out of it Jon. I don't know what kind of money he got, but do know he finished them with an oil product.
Bob
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Don't have much info but my brother said a friend of his tried it and it played havoc with his gouges. He said he was sharpening about every 2nd or 3rd pass.
Bernie
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This is a Hollow Form I did with it. Not much different than burl to me. Interesting stuff.
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Yes, I have and also have a few pieces lurking in the shop from our addition project. Nasty stuff to turn from the standpoint of abrasiveness (even with three identical gouges, I find it necessary to sharpen every few minutes) but the end result can be quite interesting.
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I made an apple out of a block of it once. Interesting stuff. Mostly I found that it had a lot of voids, and tearout was a problem due to it being mostly pine. It took a lot of CA glue and coffee to fill up the holes....
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Jon this is NOT you're turning right, can you tell us who turned this bowl ??
I had seen some turnings made from Parrallam and wasn't impressed with it, so when we did some addition on our house and we had a about 3 feet piece of 4"X12" left over, I drilled a hole in it and used it to place my anvil on, could maybe cut a corner off of it and give it whirl.
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I think I found who turned the bowl that Jon is showing, and a lot more, have a look.
I also think Jon should have indicated who turned the bowl IMO.
http://www.outofcontrol-woodturning.com/Parallam.html
Last edited by Leo Van Der Loo; 09-29-2008 at 3:44 PM.
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