paulm
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A follow on project from this old thread and another piece of PaulC's tree, yep, yet another bowl :roll: :lol:
This had been cored and rough turned ages ago and I kept putting it off as it had developed a largish split in one side through the heartwood, but finally got around to giving it a go.
It's a large one ! 15" x 5 or 6", finished with four coats of danish and then a couple of coats of woodwax.
Pic's aren't great, just used the iphone as didn't have the camera to hand:-
The next one isn't from PaulC's tree, but from a neighbours walnut tree I salvaged from them a couple of years ago and have been drying the timber out. Not as good as your's Paul unfortunately :wink: , not as much heartwood and some large areas of rot to contend with.
This one is a tiddly 6" x 2 1/2" and has had a couple of coats of oil so not yet fully finished.
Here it is beside the rest of the same blank that was cored out and has been drying in the rough and needs to be finish turned too, four decent bowls hopefully from the same piece, fingers crossed.
Only problem is that there was a very large area of rot through one side of the complete blank, I have filled that with superglue and dust/shavings and seems pretty solid, but not sure how will it will stand up to turning and how it will finish. Worst case I guess I can dremel it out and make a feature of it in the set of bowls :lol:
You can see in the background some of the rest of the neighbours walnut that I have been converting, some into decent sized bowl blanks (not in pics) but some into 1" and 1 1/2" planks for other non-turning uses yet to be decided. Here's some more getting in the way !
Not the best walnut as it was summer felled unfortunately so the non-heartwood areas (or sap to you Rob :lol: ) are a bit discoloured and the heartwood areas are quite small, but there is some attractive figuring and colouring nonetheless that would look good in box lids or small cabinet doors or similar as "features" ! Better than using for firewood anyway :shock: :lol:
Cheers, Paul
This had been cored and rough turned ages ago and I kept putting it off as it had developed a largish split in one side through the heartwood, but finally got around to giving it a go.
It's a large one ! 15" x 5 or 6", finished with four coats of danish and then a couple of coats of woodwax.
Pic's aren't great, just used the iphone as didn't have the camera to hand:-
The next one isn't from PaulC's tree, but from a neighbours walnut tree I salvaged from them a couple of years ago and have been drying the timber out. Not as good as your's Paul unfortunately :wink: , not as much heartwood and some large areas of rot to contend with.
This one is a tiddly 6" x 2 1/2" and has had a couple of coats of oil so not yet fully finished.
Here it is beside the rest of the same blank that was cored out and has been drying in the rough and needs to be finish turned too, four decent bowls hopefully from the same piece, fingers crossed.
Only problem is that there was a very large area of rot through one side of the complete blank, I have filled that with superglue and dust/shavings and seems pretty solid, but not sure how will it will stand up to turning and how it will finish. Worst case I guess I can dremel it out and make a feature of it in the set of bowls :lol:
You can see in the background some of the rest of the neighbours walnut that I have been converting, some into decent sized bowl blanks (not in pics) but some into 1" and 1 1/2" planks for other non-turning uses yet to be decided. Here's some more getting in the way !
Not the best walnut as it was summer felled unfortunately so the non-heartwood areas (or sap to you Rob :lol: ) are a bit discoloured and the heartwood areas are quite small, but there is some attractive figuring and colouring nonetheless that would look good in box lids or small cabinet doors or similar as "features" ! Better than using for firewood anyway :shock: :lol:
Cheers, Paul
