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25th August 2015, 01:23 AM #1Novice
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Fiddleback on the inside or out?
I picked up some nice crutch pieces recently and have started to process them for turning. Red and grey iron bark and some pink bloodwood. Most have fiddleback that's why I grabbed them. Where do you guys put it? Inside or outside of the bowls? They were not huge rounds so should turn 300x 1500 max out of them with a section of good fiddle. I 1/4 sawed some to try and keep more but the loggers cut where they cut and many I didn't have a choice where to rip.
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25th August 2015, 02:41 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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DeanO,
I cut my crotches through the pith of the main trunk and branches so that the blanks are Y shaped.
I then make the bottom of the bowl from the center of the timber, the flat part of the blank.
I call the figure feather grain. Looking up fiddleback figure, I think we may be talking about different things.
Were I to make the bowl with the outside following the curve of the timber, with the flat part up, I think I would cut out most of the feather grain hollowing the bowl.
This is what I call feather grain, facing up is what I would make the bottom of the bowl:
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_bas...not_wood_3.jpg
There is always risk of the feather not getting high enough to see from the inside, especially if one makes a spigot to grab with a chuck. One can always glue on a waste piece to grab and then turn that off when finishing the bottom.So much timber, so little time.
Paul
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