Tony Morton
2nd February 2009, 08:33 PM
Hi All
First post for the year,I thought i would tell you about this afternoons effort. Well last week I selected a large jarra burl blank to make a bowl cut it to shape with bandsaw and chainsaw mounted on lathe and turnes till i had a bowl out side about 400 by 120 mills a couple of bark inclusions and a hole from rotten branch though I d leave this one natural as the previous burl I spent hours filling cracks and holes. Was able to finish the out side this morning and remounted on the lathe for start to hollowing after lunch. Well this is where the fun started started with p&n bowl gouge got a fef mills from starting point then nothing but dust and smoke. had a look at face od blank eveything clean but dry so sharpened the gouge and 30 mm scraper 10 seconds and dust I could get aprox 20mm wide stripabout 3-5 mmdeep per sharpening so I dug out another three heavy scrapers and old P&n and ran them in relay when they were all blunt Id sharpen the five this lasted for about the first inch then it gradually got softer and i eventually got it finished sandad to 400 grit and coat of wood wipi citrus and nut oil. Definatly the hardest piece of timbe that I have come acress so far.
Cheers Tony
First post for the year,I thought i would tell you about this afternoons effort. Well last week I selected a large jarra burl blank to make a bowl cut it to shape with bandsaw and chainsaw mounted on lathe and turnes till i had a bowl out side about 400 by 120 mills a couple of bark inclusions and a hole from rotten branch though I d leave this one natural as the previous burl I spent hours filling cracks and holes. Was able to finish the out side this morning and remounted on the lathe for start to hollowing after lunch. Well this is where the fun started started with p&n bowl gouge got a fef mills from starting point then nothing but dust and smoke. had a look at face od blank eveything clean but dry so sharpened the gouge and 30 mm scraper 10 seconds and dust I could get aprox 20mm wide stripabout 3-5 mmdeep per sharpening so I dug out another three heavy scrapers and old P&n and ran them in relay when they were all blunt Id sharpen the five this lasted for about the first inch then it gradually got softer and i eventually got it finished sandad to 400 grit and coat of wood wipi citrus and nut oil. Definatly the hardest piece of timbe that I have come acress so far.
Cheers Tony