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3rd November 2015, 11:19 PM
I usually just lurk in the background but Smiffie's prompting encouraged me to post something. Thanks mate!!
Funny how things turn out sometimes. . . .
While I was pretty happy with how this Mulberry bowl turned out, it bears absolutely no resemblance at all to the vision I had when I placed the chunk of wood on the lathe.
The forecast was a traditional shaped bowl, nice and round at the base, rising to a narrower opening at the top. The endgrain was showing a few cracks so I thought I'd lose a bit of wood. However as I progressed with roughing and rounding, they just kept on going. So my nice round base became a much thinner stem. Still managed to get a bit of a bowl at the top, and retained some of the natural bark edge.
It was turned green and rather than roughing and putting the blank away to dry as I often do, thought I’d have a go at turning it thin (or thin-ish) and letting nature take its course.
It warped a bit, and some parts thinned up more than others. When sufficiently dry after about 4 weeks, I hand-sanded to 400, then finished with Kunos. 170mm across at the top, and stands 115mm high
Plenty of drama in the wood, lovely golden and cream tones – the finished wood is lovely and smooth to the touch, but also beautifully textured in the ‘burly’ sections.
Jeff
Facebook: Jeff Fraser - Woodturner
Funny how things turn out sometimes. . . .
While I was pretty happy with how this Mulberry bowl turned out, it bears absolutely no resemblance at all to the vision I had when I placed the chunk of wood on the lathe.
The forecast was a traditional shaped bowl, nice and round at the base, rising to a narrower opening at the top. The endgrain was showing a few cracks so I thought I'd lose a bit of wood. However as I progressed with roughing and rounding, they just kept on going. So my nice round base became a much thinner stem. Still managed to get a bit of a bowl at the top, and retained some of the natural bark edge.
It was turned green and rather than roughing and putting the blank away to dry as I often do, thought I’d have a go at turning it thin (or thin-ish) and letting nature take its course.
It warped a bit, and some parts thinned up more than others. When sufficiently dry after about 4 weeks, I hand-sanded to 400, then finished with Kunos. 170mm across at the top, and stands 115mm high
Plenty of drama in the wood, lovely golden and cream tones – the finished wood is lovely and smooth to the touch, but also beautifully textured in the ‘burly’ sections.
Jeff
Facebook: Jeff Fraser - Woodturner