Post a photo of the last thing you turned

[Stigmorgan]

Your wee little goolies remind of the characters that chased pac man in the arcade game excellent Halloween idea

Yeah I thought that whilst making them

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Frustrated just tried to turn some spelled wood... rotted all the way to centre
Hands now too painful to do any more for a few day at least

 

[Stigmorgan]

Frustrated just tried to turn some spelled wood... rotted all the way to centre
Hands now too painful to do any more for a few day at least

Your hands? You know you're supposed to use a gouge right?

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Now you tell me

 

[pat from Marck]

Your wee little goolies remind of the characters that chased pac man in the arcade game excellent Halloween idea

Should have read goulies

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

How not to start a day
Decided to start to turn the wood recovered from the sea
1. Two attempts to fit a face plate, had to drill pilot holes
2 did not notice that the last 10 mm of the bit had broken off in the wood, it came back to bite me and my tools
3 the wood is so hard, harder than the old oak.. after 2 and a bit hours I had the motive cut and the o/s of the bowl shaped. So far so good. Started to hollow out....... an hour and half....I have remove 15mm on a 125 mm hollow
At this rate it will be finished sometime 2029...lol
I know I have been spoilt turning soft wood

 

[Stigmorgan]

How not to start a day
Decided to start to turn the wood recovered from the sea
1. Two attempts to fit a face plate, had to drill pilot holes
2 did not notice that the last 10 mm of the bit had broken off in the wood, it came back to bite me and my tools
3 the wood is so hard, harder than the old oak.. after 2 and a bit hours I had the motive cut and the o/s of the bowl shaped. So far so good. Started to hollow out....... an hour and half....I have remove 15mm on a 125 mm hollow
At this rate it will be finished sometime 2029...lol
I know I have been spoilt turning soft wood

Some woods just don't like being hollowed, just have to sharpen more often.

Today I decided to do some more small plant pots, got 2 birch ones done ready for resin, one cherry ready for resin and another one shaped ready to hollow, the cherry is very hard and does not hollow easily, creates extremely fine dust rather than ribbons, there was an overgrown branch off on the log which had a big crack in the k ot, I've filled this with ebony shavings and CA, if I get chance I'll finish them all at the weekend but my local club has an open day on Sunday and Colwin Way is one of the demonstrators along with M Saban-Smith and some others.

 

[Hugh M.]

I have really enjoyed going through this thread. I’m sitting here slack jawed at the the high standards of the work. I’m almost embarrassed to offer you these birds.

What is impressive is my daughter’s artwork. We have pecking woodpeckers, parrots, kingfishers and even pigeons.

 

[Stigmorgan]

I have really enjoyed going through this thread. I’m sitting here slack jawed at the the high standards of the work. I’m almost embarrassed to offer you these birds.

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What is impressive is my daughter’s artwork. We have pecking woodpeckers, parrots, kingfishers and even pigeons.

Don't put yourself down, that's cool. How about test yourself and have some fun by joining in with secret santa?

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Sea kill saga
These are two of the blanks the 3rd I have tried to turn as Stig said I get a lot of fine dust that is hot and the tools blunt quickly
On a plus side my Christmas collection is growing various trees and just last week added a snow man family
Mr, mrs and child

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Stig,
You said that some woods don’t like being turned
That wood of mine I think is Burch but not sure wondering if I re cut a blank so that I could work it cross grain and not end grain…. Any thoughts

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

A pre round section of sea kill

 

[pat from Marck]

A pre round section of sea kill

Cut in half through the centre judging by the tape measure in the photo cut to 10cm along the length on both pieces to give yourself two square bits then turn you should end up with a lovely set and if you have enough left over reapeat good luck look fwd to the photos pat

 

[Stigmorgan]

A pre round section of sea kill

As Pat says, I'd split in half and make a matching set of 4 small bowls, alternatively turn them both as spindles and make 2 matching vases, no need to hollow out if you can drill the hole to around 20mm.
Looking at the bark I'm not sure it's Birch though.

 

[Stigmorgan]

Now that I've revived 3 years worth of secret santa threads in an attempt to increase numbers this year I can post pics of today's work
First I put a coat of resin inside the 2 cherry and 2 birch pots so I can put some more plants and pots in the staffroom, sold 2 more this morning, then I mounted the palletwood/ Cork coaster blank I glued up, got it round but the Cork ended up looking like end grain tear out so saturated the whole thing with as much CA as it would absorb (forgot to take pics) then spent 20 minutes cleaning CA and sawdust off my toolrest and bedways
Grabbed a load of 3x3 softwood blanks, turned tenons on them and got a snowman & tree done, both 6inches (ish) tall, really happy with these 2 so will use them as my template for the rest, once done I will have a total of 10 each to go in the plastic bags with paint and brush. Not sure what wood the tree is exactly, the grain is very fine and very soft, it cuts super clean and sands extremely fast, wish I had more of it.

 

[Hugh M.]

Not the most recent thing but rather my first and so far only foray into epoxy resin.

It started when I spotted some spalting in a piece of firewood at my parent’s place. It was a branch join I think and was fatter on that side than the other.
I found turning epoxy somewhat fraught. I still find the odd piece of shrapnel in the recesses of the garage!

It now has pride of place at mum and dad’s place.

 

[pat from Marck]

Not the most recent thing but rather my first and so far only foray into epoxy resin.

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It started when I spotted some spalting in a piece of firewood at my parent’s place. It was a branch join I think and was fatter on that side than the other.
I found turning epoxy somewhat fraught. I still find the odd piece of shrapnel in the recesses of the garage!

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It now has pride of place at mum and dad’s place.

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Not a big fan of blue but that really does go well with the spalted wood

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

As Pat says, I'd split in half and make a matching set of 4 small bowls, alternatively turn them both as spindles and make 2 matching vases, no need to hollow out if you can drill the hole to around 20mm.
Looking at the bark I'm not sure it's Birch though.

Any thoughts on what it is

 

[Stigmorgan]

Any thoughts on what it is

Not too sure, can you get a good pic of the bark?

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Hiya some pics rem the wood had been in salt water for some times