Caveman
25th November 2008, 09:13 PM
G'day folks - it's been a while since my last post.
Been busy feeding the addiction - doing lots of 'regular' bowls - not much new to add to the 'pot'.
Recently finished off this thing - a bit different to the norm.
Pic's 1 to 6 taken during roughing. 7 during re-turning after a few months drying and the others after a finish of BLO.
Is a Loranthus species of some sort - a parasite - grows quite big on a couple of trees round here.
Have turned several very hard timbers but have never come across something as difficult to cut. The thing seems to want to fight you every step of the way and I ended cutting opposite to the norm i.e. 'downhill' instead of 'uphill' on the exterior etc...
Having said that, it seemed quite a bit easier to re-turn once dry and left a decent finish off the tool prior to sanding - although the 'punky' bits of bark inclusions were a challenge, but little nibbling cuts seemed to finish it off ok.
Had to do quite a bit of sanding with the lathe off, otherwise I think the barky bits would have been sanded down very easily leaving low spots.
I have a huge pile of these things to do battle with!
Been some work before on these 'mistletoe's' that turned out quite nice.
Check these out:
One from R.B. plus a couple more pics of my effort during roughing out.
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=67457&highlight=mistletoe (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=67457&highlight=mistletoe)
and Vern's 'mistletoe'.
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=33866&highlight=mistletoe (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=33866&highlight=mistletoe)
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=33325&highlight=mistletoe
Been busy feeding the addiction - doing lots of 'regular' bowls - not much new to add to the 'pot'.
Recently finished off this thing - a bit different to the norm.
Pic's 1 to 6 taken during roughing. 7 during re-turning after a few months drying and the others after a finish of BLO.
Is a Loranthus species of some sort - a parasite - grows quite big on a couple of trees round here.
Have turned several very hard timbers but have never come across something as difficult to cut. The thing seems to want to fight you every step of the way and I ended cutting opposite to the norm i.e. 'downhill' instead of 'uphill' on the exterior etc...
Having said that, it seemed quite a bit easier to re-turn once dry and left a decent finish off the tool prior to sanding - although the 'punky' bits of bark inclusions were a challenge, but little nibbling cuts seemed to finish it off ok.
Had to do quite a bit of sanding with the lathe off, otherwise I think the barky bits would have been sanded down very easily leaving low spots.
I have a huge pile of these things to do battle with!
Been some work before on these 'mistletoe's' that turned out quite nice.
Check these out:
One from R.B. plus a couple more pics of my effort during roughing out.
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=67457&highlight=mistletoe (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=67457&highlight=mistletoe)
and Vern's 'mistletoe'.
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=33866&highlight=mistletoe (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=33866&highlight=mistletoe)
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=33325&highlight=mistletoe