The obsession continues.

[CHJ]

...snip...
Did you turn all these today or during the week. :?:

_________Finished turned today, along with this one and a couple of others part finished. They were turned green about 3 weeks ago.

_________ ___click on image for larger view
______________Sycamore (160mm)

Are most of the pieces you put on Chas using the meths and boiling drying process,..snip..

_________ Yes, at the moment they are mostly home dried, (The chestnut cake stand was from a bought in air dried slab.)
_________ The sycamore pieces were boiled, the other 3 were meths soaked.

 

[PowerTool]

More nice stuff - and your workrate still amazes me 8)

And still a great source of enjoyment and inspiration

Andrew

 

[CHJ]

_______Yet more of the same:

_______ ____ ____
___________Sycamore (165mm)_______________Sycamore (158mm)____________________Yew (150mm)

 

[CHJ]

_______And in case it is of interest to those who have the occasional split piece that looks only good for the firewood.
_______This badly split piece was like this before turning in the green.

_______ ____ ____

_______The Split was butchered with a small screwdriver to widen and leave a ragged edge.

_______ ____

_______This was treated with gap filling CA glue, filled with coffee grounds whilst still wet and further soaked in low viscosity CA glue.

_______ ____ ___click on images for larger view

_______This is the result, not pretty but good enough to hold some Pot Potpourri in the little room of the house.

_______First of the three above.

 

[Paul.J]

Chas.Theres no stopping you.
Yet more nice pieces.
Love the colour of the Yew piece.
Nice job on the split piece.
I glued a split on an Ash piece last week,and it's split again.I used pva glue :?: Would the use of c a glue made any difference. :?:
Paul.J

 

[CHJ]

I glued a split on an Ash piece last week,and it's split again.I used pva glue :?: Would the use of c a glue made any difference. :?:
Paul.J

Sounds like the wood has still a way to go in the drying stakes, mine are always 'stress free' as far as I can tell when I glue, below 8% moisture.

Did the PVA glue fail or did the wood give way?
How long had the PVA cured before you turned it?

CA glue is harder and less resilient than PVA (brittle?).

I doubt CA would have been any better if the wood had enough movement in it to break a PVA joint.

 

[Paul.J]

Chas.
The Ash was a piece that i had 4 years ago,from the same wood as the Ash bowl i turned,so was just assuming that the wood would be dry enough,without a meter it's difficult to tell.
The piece was glued for 2 days and then left while i done something else,and then noticed the split.Looks like it as just pulled apart.
Paul.J.

 

[duncanh]

It looks as though there was too much of the pith/centre of the wood left in.

I've only risked one wet turning where I intentionally kept the pith in and I was worried about it cracking badly as it dried. It did develop shakes on both sides but yew doesn't seem to move much as it dries so I was lucky

Duncan

 

[Paul.J]

Thanks Duncan.
Guess your right.I suppose all pieces can be good to turn :roll:
Paul.J.

 

[CHJ]

_________More of the Sycamore

_________ _________ ___click on images for larger view
_________________(157mm)_____________________________(164mm)

 

[Paul.J]

Very nice Chas.
Chas is Sycamore similar to Ash.
It's just that all those logs i got a few weeks back seems different to the Ash i had before.The smell is different,it cuts different,seems to be stringy,and feels lighter than the Ash.
Any idea what it might be :?:
Paul.J.

 

[CHJ]

Paul, Sycamore is a much softer texture than Ash, although the growth banding may look similar there is no discernable difference between summer and winter growth as in Ash.

The Sycamore that I have has a fine marking running through it reminicent of London Plane when cut for Lace Wood. This shows up more prominently in these darker pieces. The wood is darkening during storage, something to do with the sugars in the wood I believe.

Ash

Sycamore

The above are the best pics I could find to represent the difference, although they are from a USA source (where sycamore is classed amongst the maples)

 

[Paul.J]

Thanks Chas.
The colour on those samples look very similar.
The wood i have looks whiter than the Ash i have.It even feels different :!: :!:
I will clean a piece up tomorrow and post a piccy.
Paul.J.

 

[CHJ]

Thanks Chas.
The colour on those samples look very similar.
The wood i have looks whiter than the Ash i have.It even feels different :!: :!:
I will clean a piece up tomorrow and post a piccy.
Paul.J.

Some of the sycamore when first cut was very paleSee some of the pieces here

Colours tend to the brown/fawn range, I would say Ash tends towards greys.

 

[CHJ]

_______ "What's all that lot stacked under there:"

_______ "It's waiting to be sorted, some of it may just be firewood" :|

_______ "well, whats the holdup with the sorting"

_______ "60% of the time will be spent chasing defects to see how deep they go"

_______ "so"


_______ "Errmmm......OK dear (hammer)

_______ ____ ____
___________Spalted Ash (175mm)__________Cedar of Lebanon (98mm)________Cedar of Lebanon (105mm)

_______ ____ ____
__________Cedar of Lebanon (97mm)__________Spalted Ash (155mm)__________Spalted Ash (122mm)

_______
__________Spalted Ash (100mm)___________click on images for larger view

 

[Paul.J]

"I HAVE SPOKEN"
Still,you managed to have a bit of a clear up Chas.
All nice pieces.
I like the colour of the last two spalted Ash pieces,very nice.
Paul.J.

 

[Paul.J]

Chas.
Here are the piccys of that wood that i've got.
Tried taking them in different lights to try and show the colour better.
The small rough turned bowl was turned last week and as now got a yellowy/goldish colour.
What do you think.

Paul.J.

 

[CHJ]

Looks like it might be Sycamore, although the pieces I have show more fine figuring withing the growth bands, that sample looks more like Birch but that would be obvious from the bark.

 

[CHJ]

__________A bit of pre-Rugby pottering.

_________ _________ ___click on images for larger view
________________Yew (120mm)_____________________Sycamore (173mm)

 

[Paul.J]

Very nice again Chas.
How long did it take you to turn these ones then. :?:
Love the Yew one.Hows that happened with the colours :?: :?:

CHJ said
that sample looks more like Birch but that would be obvious from the bark.
I agree Chas,but the bark was like the Ash i had before thats why i thought it was Ash,but it as a very different smell to it.
Paul.J.