Hardenfast
29th November 2008, 03:54 PM
Greetings everyone. I haven't posted anything for a while as I've been too busy to enter the workshop lately. However, thanks to our useless NSW government destroying the local building industry I've had a few days of inactivity, so I knocked up something for your valued considerations.
Although I have very limited experience compared to some of you, my passion in wood turning has become segmented pieces. Having had some moderate success with various bowls in the past (eg: here (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=71777) and here (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=74212)) I thought I'd attempt my first hollowed form piece. Having purchased a few potpourri grilles at the last Sydney Wood Show, a potpourri bowl seemed to be a worthwhile & challenging project. This piece is my fourth segmented work.
I have still got plenty of 100+ year old sections of Australian Cedar which had been reclaimed from an old staircase in a Surry Hills (Sydney) renovation. The salvagable sections sometimes end up a little small, but that's OK for segmented pieces. There are some photos of the reclamation process in the links to previous works above - I hope they still work OK. I also have some nice well seasoned slabs of spalted Hoop Pine which I obtained locally, and some sections of this are quite spectacularly marked.
So with no particular end shape in mind I cut up a variety of six piece and twelve piece sections and began glueing them together. The two timbers have nicely contrasting features and for this piece I have used thin sections of Aus Cedar in between and to offset the Spalted Pine.
Unfortunately I didn't take any pics of the assembly process but you get the general idea:
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Overall dimensions are around 160mm diameter x 110mm high with an average wall thickness of around 6mm. One heavy coat of Shellawax after a quick sand through the grits up to 400. The inside has been left raw so that it can hopefully absorb the potpourri fragrance. It's a present for our son's Canadian girlfriend who spend a year over here with us, so I thought the all Australian timbers and the Kookaburras were quite fitting.
Regards. Wayne
Although I have very limited experience compared to some of you, my passion in wood turning has become segmented pieces. Having had some moderate success with various bowls in the past (eg: here (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=71777) and here (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=74212)) I thought I'd attempt my first hollowed form piece. Having purchased a few potpourri grilles at the last Sydney Wood Show, a potpourri bowl seemed to be a worthwhile & challenging project. This piece is my fourth segmented work.
I have still got plenty of 100+ year old sections of Australian Cedar which had been reclaimed from an old staircase in a Surry Hills (Sydney) renovation. The salvagable sections sometimes end up a little small, but that's OK for segmented pieces. There are some photos of the reclamation process in the links to previous works above - I hope they still work OK. I also have some nice well seasoned slabs of spalted Hoop Pine which I obtained locally, and some sections of this are quite spectacularly marked.
So with no particular end shape in mind I cut up a variety of six piece and twelve piece sections and began glueing them together. The two timbers have nicely contrasting features and for this piece I have used thin sections of Aus Cedar in between and to offset the Spalted Pine.
Unfortunately I didn't take any pics of the assembly process but you get the general idea:
89902 89903 89904
89905 89906
Overall dimensions are around 160mm diameter x 110mm high with an average wall thickness of around 6mm. One heavy coat of Shellawax after a quick sand through the grits up to 400. The inside has been left raw so that it can hopefully absorb the potpourri fragrance. It's a present for our son's Canadian girlfriend who spend a year over here with us, so I thought the all Australian timbers and the Kookaburras were quite fitting.
Regards. Wayne