todays messings

[stevebuk]

managed to grab a couple of hours in the cabin today, just messing about with scraps of wood, finished off the mushroom doug started, and did a couple in iroko, and played with a piece of pine 5 inch square and 1 in deep, tried to leave the edges flat.
all in all not a bad day playing wise apart from the goblet, grrr.

 

[Doug B]

Not to bad a day then Steve.

Looks like a nice finish you achieved on the pine piece.
What did you use as a finish on the mushrooms, the yew one looks so glossy, well done.

 

[stevebuk]

hi doug
finish was just BLO on the iroko and friction polish on the yew, just sanding sealer on the pine, i do like the smell of pine.

 

[richburrow]

Hello Steve
I like the shape of the mushrooms alot, I have tried several lately and none have looked quite right.

The smell of Pine is nice
A kid came into class a few weeks ago after we had been ripping some lengths of Pine for a project.
He said "It rate smells like B&Q in ere sir."

They can be great at times :lol:

 

[PowerTool]

All nice stuff,Steve - the mushrooms look good,and the shape of the pine piece makes it interesting;shows a nice grain pattern

Andrew

 

[gasmansteve]

Hi Steve
Some nice stuff there :lol: . That square stuff needs treating with kid gloves doesn`t it ? as my grazed knuckles can confirm
Steve

 

[Turn It In]

Hi Steve,
I like the pine bowl with a lovely grain pattern and a fine crop of mushrooms too!!
I can see the lathe has been receiving a bit of "running in". Nice one!!
Regards,
Ian

 

[johnny.t.]

Good efforts there Steve I would like to see the profile of the bowl though for a better feel of it. Good finish with pine there too, did it take much sanding?

JT

 

[stevebuk]

Good efforts there Steve I would like to see the profile of the bowl though for a better feel of it. Good finish with pine there too, did it take much sanding?

JT

hi jt
yes it took quite a bit of sanding, more than i should have done concidering its only a play piece.
here are a few more pics of the bowl, you may notice in the last shot the damaged corner, i dropped it while trying to photograph it.

 

[johnny.t.]

It looks nice in profile Steve A very gentle curve.

I can see a few ripples/ridges in the pics, when I get these I find with couple of very light passes with the gouge over them I can remove them pretty well or a gentle scraping with a very sharp scraper works wonders.
Also I have a jacobs chuck that I put in the headstock with one of those velcro sanding pads that I can present the piece to by hand, which is very effective at sanding any really awkward spots and for sanding the last bit in the middle of feet.

JT