Year 10 slowly getting the hang of it.

[Grahamshed]

Lovely little bowls Chas.

 

[CHJ]

Just trying to vary the form a little Graham, it's good folks preferences differ so much, all seem to find a home and it means I can let the wood make most of the decisions.

 

[CHJ]

Another bit of Yew salvaged from the collection of splits it was growing, 150mm dia.

 

[Grahamshed]

theres lovely. You cannot beat a good bit of yew

 

[Paul.J]

Thats nice Chas,nice beading again

 

[CHJ]

You guessed it, a bit more Yew, 148mm dia.

 

[Grahamshed]

I love that shape Chas, a nice gentle curve.

 

[Paul.J]

Very nice Chas,you're having a good run at the moment.

 

[CHJ]

Just trying to get a requested batch out of the way Paul, left some awkward blanks on the bench till last, next couple of days will see if there is anything in the middle of them other than rubbish.
Probably have enough dried in the store for about ten or a dozen more, whether I can work up the enthusiasm to keep going without changing tack for a while we will have to see.

 

[CHJ]

Got self into gear early enough to spend an hour before lunch making a mess in the shed.
Think I'm going to have to leave rest of this batch of stock a while, or only cut blanks as required as the last ones in the pre-prepared batch are starting to open up.

Yew, 150mm dia.

 

[CHJ]

Well some asked if anything ever goes wrong,
Well it's not so much gone wrong but an annoyance, never one to deliberately take something off the lathe with a tooling blemish showing, this one caught me out, not visible in normal daylight situations but as soon as it's put in the light tent radial tooling marks are visible on the inner surface.

Pear 163mm dia.

Was originally going to offer this and hopefully a couple more pieces as a bit of a mystery, if it wasn't for the fact that the wood came as a gift (thanks PaulJ) with all the bark on and an original leaf example I would have sworn it was Walnut the wood is so dark.
It's pretty punky in areas so the tree was probably well in decline before harvesting.
Other Pear I collected locally last year has identical cratered bark, almost Cork like in appearance, you would be forgiven for thinking it was the same tree, but is a pale pink in colour throughout akin to Cherry.

 

[Dalboy]

That is one nice piece of wood and you have done it proud.

I know what you mean about marks you sand and inspect everything looks good apply a finish still looks good take it off the lathe and out of the shed and there it is a nice tool mark.

 

[Paul.J]

That certainly doesn't look like the pear i turned Chas from the same batch,but on saying that it was from a different supplier to my usual and the pear was mixed up with other sawn up logs so might have picked up summat different??
Pity about the marks,and you have plenty of daylight in the shed.
Lovely bowl though Chas,will you be power sanding the marks out??

 

[CHJ]

That certainly doesn't look like the pear i turned Chas from the same batch,but on saying that it was from a different supplier to my usual and the pear was mixed up with other sawn up logs so might have picked up summat different??

It's got me puzzled Paul, given the wood without the Bark I would have said Walnut but the bark is so thick and open textured and looks identical to some pear I have, plus I've never seen Walnut with such open texture bark.

Pity about the marks,and you have plenty of daylight in the shed.
Lovely bowl though Chas,will you be power sanding the marks out??

Thinking about it Paul, they niggle, but might just make matters worse if I touch it.

The wood is just on the cusp of being firewood fodder for hardness, like spalted beech that has gone a bit too far, will see what happens with the next piece I think.

 

[CHJ]

Further searching and looking at some other samples in store I have I've come down on the side of Black Walnut.
These images go a long way to convince me

 

[Bodrighy]

I get offcuts of American black walnut from the furniture factory with the strong contrasting that you have here Chas but the graining is not as open looking as in your bowl. Should be able to tell the difference by the smell, very different to pear.

Pete

 

[CHJ]

Likewise on the furniture grade stuff Pete, coming to conclusion that this being a much smaller diameter UK grown tree the grain patterns are showing up differently.

Wood is very much passed it's sell-by date so smell is difficult to compare.

 

[Woodmonkey]

I would put money on that being English walnut, I turned some a couple of years ago which looked identical to that, even down to the small hole in the centre of the pith.

 

[CHJ]

This is the Pear I currently have from a known orchard, and why the Bark was confusing me.

 

[Paul.J]

I think i have some the Pear left Chas i will have a look for it and see what i have.
That last piccy looks like the Elm i have,which i think you also had some of??