I'm totally new to turning. The other half surprised me with a lathe for Christmas. She'd seen me watch Matt Estela turning his mallets on YouTube. She didn't realise that you can't just start using it with no tools or equipment! Anyway I got some tools a few other bits to give it a go and enjoyed it. I've just chopped an apple tree down in my parents so have loads of wood. It's completely saturated, though. The first thing I turned was a mushroom. That was quite easy, so I had a go at a small vase that turned out very rough in retrospect, but at the time was a masterpiece to me...
Then the following weekend I had a go at a bigger vase and I was much happier with it.
I wasn't happy with just using my pillar drill for the hole, but couldn't access that part of the vase, so I had a brainwave to create a tenon and buy a chuck (this is deffo axminster's business plan)
The chuck arrived and I go to finish off my plan only to find the wood gods not being nice to me at all...
Obviously this is beyond fixing, but what caused that to happen so quickly? The little ugly one hasn't got anything like that going on. This cracked one was from a tree next door cut down about a month ago and he had it in the shed to dry.
The only big differences between the two I can think is I finished this one on the lathe, the other one I did days later and they're obviously different species. One is slightly less saturated. Also the apple tree came down about the same time, but has just been left to the elements. I think the tree he cut down was a cherry blossom tree.
Cheers
Then the following weekend I had a go at a bigger vase and I was much happier with it.
I wasn't happy with just using my pillar drill for the hole, but couldn't access that part of the vase, so I had a brainwave to create a tenon and buy a chuck (this is deffo axminster's business plan)
The chuck arrived and I go to finish off my plan only to find the wood gods not being nice to me at all...
Obviously this is beyond fixing, but what caused that to happen so quickly? The little ugly one hasn't got anything like that going on. This cracked one was from a tree next door cut down about a month ago and he had it in the shed to dry.
The only big differences between the two I can think is I finished this one on the lathe, the other one I did days later and they're obviously different species. One is slightly less saturated. Also the apple tree came down about the same time, but has just been left to the elements. I think the tree he cut down was a cherry blossom tree.
Cheers
