dai sensei
4th August 2017, 06:38 PM
I client asked me to turn a baseball bat from a 65sq x 1150 piece of Totara. I turned it to the official USA sizes he gave me (so yes I got some offcuts) but he will then carve it with traditional family type carvings so it will only be decorative. He also asked me to dress up a 250x50x1500 rough sawn plank of it to so he could then make a stand for the bat which will also be carved. Happy to help him out as it sounds a really interesting project. Hopefully he will send me a photo of the finish project. He showed me some of his other carving works and I was impressed.
The timber reminded me a bit of Black Locust being a green yellow but darker and a bit softer. Unfortunately it also loves to tear out, and the plank had some beautiful twisted grain, so I ended up finishing it with the orbital sander after passing it through the thicknesser. The photo isn't that good but the grain is really nice.
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The timber reminded me a bit of Black Locust being a green yellow but darker and a bit softer. Unfortunately it also loves to tear out, and the plank had some beautiful twisted grain, so I ended up finishing it with the orbital sander after passing it through the thicknesser. The photo isn't that good but the grain is really nice.
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