Seventh Wood
4th April 2009, 04:11 PM
To All,
It seems a while since I turned a finished piece, as I have been distracted with enough fresh wood supply to keep me rough turning. Most of the timber is pickups from Adelaide suburbia (the sound of chainsaws and chippers).
I have done about 20 bowls and a about 30 box blanks recently. The box blanks I let season naturally but after a few cracked disasters in the bowls, I am sealing them with grain sealer. I don't yet know how they will turn out - I am too new to rough turning to have any pieces seasoned enough for turning yet.
Below is a selection of timbers and bowl styles - from the left, two in Brush Box (tree that died in the nearby park and retrieved from the Council workers), three Plane Tree (a local tree removal whereI retrieved a bootload), two Walnut (a friend's dead tree) and a couple of liquid amber (demolition of a friend's place and the tree had to go). There are also close-ups of the Brush Box and Plane roughies. Most of the bowls I turn a dovetail recess on the inside for later finish turnig of the outside
I am very impressed with the Brush Box figure and also the Plane Tree, less so with the walnut, and the liquid amber seems prone to cracking. The difference in workablity is quite different also - the Qld Brush Box is very hard but turned really well with a bowl gouge, but I preferred ripping out the Plane with scrapers. I have tried to bring out the ray pattern by quarter sawing some of the Plane, as well as other cuts to get different lacewood patterns - very much like silky oak.
One of these days I will post the end results - hopefully not all will end up as firewood!
Cheers,
7th Wood
It seems a while since I turned a finished piece, as I have been distracted with enough fresh wood supply to keep me rough turning. Most of the timber is pickups from Adelaide suburbia (the sound of chainsaws and chippers).
I have done about 20 bowls and a about 30 box blanks recently. The box blanks I let season naturally but after a few cracked disasters in the bowls, I am sealing them with grain sealer. I don't yet know how they will turn out - I am too new to rough turning to have any pieces seasoned enough for turning yet.
Below is a selection of timbers and bowl styles - from the left, two in Brush Box (tree that died in the nearby park and retrieved from the Council workers), three Plane Tree (a local tree removal whereI retrieved a bootload), two Walnut (a friend's dead tree) and a couple of liquid amber (demolition of a friend's place and the tree had to go). There are also close-ups of the Brush Box and Plane roughies. Most of the bowls I turn a dovetail recess on the inside for later finish turnig of the outside
I am very impressed with the Brush Box figure and also the Plane Tree, less so with the walnut, and the liquid amber seems prone to cracking. The difference in workablity is quite different also - the Qld Brush Box is very hard but turned really well with a bowl gouge, but I preferred ripping out the Plane with scrapers. I have tried to bring out the ray pattern by quarter sawing some of the Plane, as well as other cuts to get different lacewood patterns - very much like silky oak.
One of these days I will post the end results - hopefully not all will end up as firewood!
Cheers,
7th Wood