Glenn M
21st June 2001, 11:20 PM
G'day All,
Finished my first natural edge bowl today and I am pretty darned happy with it as a first attempt. A lady at work was talking about how she had chopped down a plum tree a couple of weeks ago and I asked her to bring in a slab to let me see what I could make of it.
Today she gives me this length of plum wood that I chopped up with a hand saw (bloody hard work, must buy a bandsaw) and I endevoured to do my first natural edge bowl.
I'm really happy with the outside, but the inside could have been better. My tool rest wouldn't reach in deep enough so I didn't have very good control of the chisel (just need more practice) so the inside base is a little wonky.
Anyway, I digress. The hardest part I found was sanding it, the outside wasn't so bad using my little rotary sander but the inside was a mongrel and the plum has more than a few nicks out of my nuckles.
So is there any black art to sanding natural edge work, or am I just going to carry on cutting myself up?
Thanks folks.
p.s. This was also my first time at working with *green* wood. Top fun!!!
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Glenn
www.woodworkbooks.com (http://www.woodworkbooks.com)
Finished my first natural edge bowl today and I am pretty darned happy with it as a first attempt. A lady at work was talking about how she had chopped down a plum tree a couple of weeks ago and I asked her to bring in a slab to let me see what I could make of it.
Today she gives me this length of plum wood that I chopped up with a hand saw (bloody hard work, must buy a bandsaw) and I endevoured to do my first natural edge bowl.
I'm really happy with the outside, but the inside could have been better. My tool rest wouldn't reach in deep enough so I didn't have very good control of the chisel (just need more practice) so the inside base is a little wonky.
Anyway, I digress. The hardest part I found was sanding it, the outside wasn't so bad using my little rotary sander but the inside was a mongrel and the plum has more than a few nicks out of my nuckles.
So is there any black art to sanding natural edge work, or am I just going to carry on cutting myself up?
Thanks folks.
p.s. This was also my first time at working with *green* wood. Top fun!!!
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Glenn
www.woodworkbooks.com (http://www.woodworkbooks.com)