Please Post Your SPRING Woodturning Challenge Entry Here

[Grahamshed]

The Spring Challenge is being judged by Paul Hannaby and my thanks go to him for that. The challenge was open to anyone and everyone and was for any object turned from a 75mm cube of wood.

Entries must be new and made specifically for the Challenge.

Entries must be made of wood which must be turned on a lathe using woodturning tools.

Carving, colouring, pyrography , texturing, segmented turning and piercing are all allowed ( probably not all at once ☺) but the judge must be able to see your turning skills! That is what is most important.

Please post three images of your work together with details of the wood used, the tools and methods used to make it and the key dimensions.
Images needed:-

1 showing a general view of your entry.
1 top view showing the top/inside of your entry.
1 view of the bottom of your entry.
A fourth picture may be added (but is not compulsory) if needed to show any other interesting details of your entry.

Image size - please use image size 640 x 480 0.3mp, as in previous challenges

Please upload your pictures and description between 10pm on the 25th March and 10pm on the 27th of March.

Please also send me a PM giving me your own opinions of 1st, 2nd and 3rd places amongst the entries (other than your own) between 10pm on 27th March and 10pm on the 29th of March. (for me to compile the entrants’ placings).

Good luck everybody.

 

[Castanea]

Good evening

My entry is a little pot. It's from a walnut off-cut I picked up recently from a local guitar maker. I cut a 75 x 75 x 75 cube to start off with and it's ended up 70mm high and 68mm in diameter. The base narrows to 23mm. Mostly turned with spindle gouges with some skew chisel moments and a tiny touch or two with a curved scraper on the inside and a three pointed tool for the detail on the base. Finished with sanding sealer and woodwax. The lid is, as intended, loose fitting and just finds its place nicely with the tapered mortice.

Because none of the inside surfaces are perpendicular I had to use external jamb chucks to finish the exterior of both the top and bottom which was a first for me and made life interesting. I seem to have got away with it which is a relief.

I think that's the lot

All the best

Ian

 

[dennisk]

1/4 sawn white oak, from a 4x6x16' purchased a few years ago. cut off a 3" cube, and set the bandsaw fence to 3/4" to center of blade and cut it into 4 slices. dressed them up a bit on the belt sander, and then cut the corners off so easier to mount in the jaws. "cored" 3 of the slices to get 7 pieces in total. mounted the base piece in jaws to turn a recess and clean up the inside, then glued the 3 big rings together and finish turned the inside, same with the small rings, and then glued the 3 pieces together. turned the outside to finish, got nearly done and a small catch and off it came. some tearout in the recess, so plan b. rechuck it from the outside and finish as much as possible and redrill the top to 1/2". turned a dowel to 1/2" and remounted with the dowel inside and some plastic wrap going to the finished top and the chuck and cleaned up the bottom tearout. 5 coats of DO with sanding in between coats, and a buff on the oneway wheels set. its about 2 7/8' by 4 1/4" high. down in aukland at the moment.

 

[andy43]

This is my entry, a little trinket box made from purple heart with a spalted beech book matched disc recessed in to the top, sizes are 70mm diameter x 40mm high, tools used were a spindle gouge, parting tool, square and round nosed scraper, sanded to 1200 grit then finished with shellawax friction polish.

 

[Bubba]

My entry for the challenge comes from a leftover piece of wood from my next door neighbour's outdoor project of last year. It is a piece of Red Balau Batu.

I started by cutting the wood into a 3" x 3" x 3" cube on the table saw. I then cut 2 waste blocks from fir that were 1/2" x 3". I glued one to either end of my cube. When it was dry, the blank was mounted and rough turned into a cylinder.

Tools used were a roughing gouge, a 3/8" spindle gouge, 1/8" parting tool, round nosed scraper and a Bedan tool. I also used my One Way chuck to hold the lid and base after the two were separated. I ventured into new territory by using a jam chuck to hold the lid so that it could be finished. I ventured into newer territory using a jam chuck and hot melt glue to hold the base to complete it (note to self... curved interiors present a challenge within a challenge).

The project was sanded to 400 grit and finished with a product I found for finishing butcher blocks and cutting boards. It is a mix of mineral oil, beeswax and carnuba wax. I quite like it as it provides a nice sheen and is food and human safe.

My project measures 2 7/8" across the top, 2 3/4" across the base and stands 2 1/2" tall.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Yew, skew and bit of spindle gouge.

Finished with Cellulose sanding sealer followed by 3 coats acrylic lacquer, finally burnished with burnishing cream.

Dimensions: 75mm x 30mm at its widest

 

[SVB]

Well, here is my entry.

It is a small hollow form by way of homage to Don Derry, a US turner that I really like and enjoy his work.

This was made from a piece of mulbury rescued from the log pile. A 3" cube shaped, hollowed and airbrushed with acrylics and finished in a gloss lacquer and buffed with chestnet's burnishing cream. I am not usually a fan of high gloss finishes but for these small, coloured forms it really works and the grain 'pops' out with the use of the translucent acrylics.

Tools wise, couple of bowl gouges, spindle gouge to drill hole and small Kelton hollowing tools.

Hope you like it!

Simon

 

[Grahamshed]

I am going to enter as well this year.

This is a small box ( 70mm X 55mm ) made from Wild Mango, a lovely wood to turn.

I cut a three inch ( 75mm) cube and put between centres to round and turn a tenon on the lid end and a mortise on the base.

Tools used were the usual roughing gouge and spindle gouge to shape and a Jason Breech box scraper to do most of the hollowing out.

The decoration was done with point tool and a Dremel with cone rasp and I have tried to reflect the lid in the base.