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  1. 21st December 2023, 04:45 PM #1
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    Default latest bowl on my slow wood turning journey

    I put this bowl up mainly to show the timber, which looks pretty nice with a mix of sapwood and heartwood. It's Swamp Cypress, taxodium distichum, which grows as a bit of a weed around here though it can be a very pretty specimen tree. A well known bowl turner hadn't heard of it nor was very impressed with its properties in turning. But it can give a decent result (don't look too closely at my curves! a WIP) Despite being a 'cypress' it has no odor. My earlier post of some other bowls had an even prettier example with a knot. This wood came from a tree my neighbour had removed so the price was right. edit. It's just a bowl that will get use in the kitchen and will be washed up regularly so I only sanded it to 120grit and slathered it in liquid paraffin (it's taken up 100ml already!)
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    Looks good to me as well.

    I'm impressed with your continuous curve, that takes a while to get to the stage where it looks continuous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hughie View Post
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    Looks good to me as well.

    I'm impressed with your continuous curve, that takes a while to get to the stage where it looks continuous.

    Mick.
    Thank you that's kind but I've got you blokes fooled, it's just the camera angle. There is a flat on the curve. It got a little thin getting rid of tear out and I ran out of room to get it perfect. perfect being the enemy of good, I decided to stop.
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    It is nice though to bringing it back to the wood as the focus.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mic-d View Post
    Thank you that's kind but I've got you blokes fooled, it's just the camera angle. There is a flat on the curve. It got a little thin getting rid of tear out and I ran out of room to get it perfect. perfect being the enemy of good, I decided to stop.
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