thompy
30th May 2011, 04:43 PM
Thought i'd dig this out of my lathe post and repost here in case anyone else might want to have a gander at my 2nd and 3rd turnings on the new beast.
On sunday, grabbed all the chisels and trudged out to the grinder in the shed, ground em up (new $3 chisel angle guage). Came back in and saw a workbench pine offcut of 140x45. Made a bowl and tried out a wire burn technique (pic 1). It's sitting on top of the same stuff i cut it from. I realised my mistake in not using a different chucking method when i got close to thickness (pic 2)
The neighbour saturday night broght me over a flouro to help my lighting, and returned sunday as i was finishing the bowl and handed me a small limb of hickory to try (pic 3), think he felt sorry for me using my pine lol. I figured o well time to stretch my boundaries some, the wood spoke to me, so captive ring here i come.
I call it my Lord of the rings...eggcup. lol. (pics 4 & 5) i gave it back to him later in the day, he was very impressed and cut me more hickory to use (evil plan..sucsessful!! )
Embarrassing as it is i only have 120 grit bunny's no clog paper to hand atm. So the tea light the bowl and the eggcup are all finished to 120# EEE an glow.
(quietly incredibly happy with the finish i'm getting, and it will get better, i dont think eee really works well till you can get it 400# +)
Neal.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->
On sunday, grabbed all the chisels and trudged out to the grinder in the shed, ground em up (new $3 chisel angle guage). Came back in and saw a workbench pine offcut of 140x45. Made a bowl and tried out a wire burn technique (pic 1). It's sitting on top of the same stuff i cut it from. I realised my mistake in not using a different chucking method when i got close to thickness (pic 2)
The neighbour saturday night broght me over a flouro to help my lighting, and returned sunday as i was finishing the bowl and handed me a small limb of hickory to try (pic 3), think he felt sorry for me using my pine lol. I figured o well time to stretch my boundaries some, the wood spoke to me, so captive ring here i come.
I call it my Lord of the rings...eggcup. lol. (pics 4 & 5) i gave it back to him later in the day, he was very impressed and cut me more hickory to use (evil plan..sucsessful!! )
Embarrassing as it is i only have 120 grit bunny's no clog paper to hand atm. So the tea light the bowl and the eggcup are all finished to 120# EEE an glow.
(quietly incredibly happy with the finish i'm getting, and it will get better, i dont think eee really works well till you can get it 400# +)
Neal.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->