Thread: Yellowbox on Bluegum

Looking good, Amos

Well done

The far left and middle one I think look the best. I think that the yellow box may look better with a centerband with it

Cheers

Nice work.

I had a red stringybark drop a branch in my front yard a couple of months ago. Good to see what it will look like turned.

What finish?

Stirlo, I agree about the Yellowbox. Even some burn rings to break it up a bit. I was playing with styles to get a feel for it. I think my favourite is the centre Ironbark (no band). You see...... I was getting a bit bored with centre bands .......


John, sand to 1200 wet n dry. Burnishing oil then wax. And the Stringybark is always different for me, sometimes close to yellowbox, sometimes great figure (hhhmmmm patina maybe the correct term ... faults etc). The others are fairly consistent in colour and grain. In fact I have trouble picking out x-cut (well ... 45 deg) blanks from ripped blanks. True x-cut (90 deg) really standout and chip out badly.

Hope that helps

Helps a lot. Burnishing oil and wax I have. Getting a bit sick of CA/BLO but then it's hard sometimes to go away from what works. I'll try yours on some scrap and see how it comes up. Thanks

David,
I am most taken with the middle one, then the one on the left. I have got to give one of those bandless pens a go. Very nice.

Rick

Rick, they (bandless) are dead easy I have a pen mandrel but remove the centre bushing so the pen is turned as one piece. Throw the extra bush at the MT of the mandrel for a bit more clearance. Lightly mark the burn lines with a skew and rip in with the wire. The harder the wood, the longer to get a good burn.

Removing the band doesn't interfere with the twist pen mechanism. Clears by about 3mm along the length although I did initially cut slightly longer blanks. Now I decide if I want to include the band after I have turned the blank down close to size.

The slimline (twist) kits are cheap and versatile for me. Now I'm investigating closed end pens. They will be fun.

David,
Thank you for the tips on ring marking. Those closed-end pens are interesting. I wish they had a mandrel for them. I guess if I really thought about it much, it wouldn't be too hard to come up with something.


Rick

Originally Posted by dhurrang

Rick, they (bandless) are dead easy I have a pen mandrel but remove the centre bushing so the pen is turned as one piece. Throw the extra bush at the MT of the mandrel for a bit more clearance. Lightly mark the burn lines with a skew and rip in with the wire. The harder the wood, the longer to get a good burn.

Removing the band doesn't interfere with the twist pen mechanism. Clears by about 3mm along the length although I did initially cut slightly longer blanks. Now I decide if I want to include the band after I have turned the blank down close to size.

The slimline (twist) kits are cheap and versatile for me. Now I'm investigating closed end pens. They will be fun.

next you can try making your own 'centre band' out of horn, ebony, a different timber, plastics, metals etc. its the same thing as what you are doing but with a small peice of something else attached to the blank.

Originally Posted by ScrollZilla

David,
Thank you for the tips on ring marking. Those closed-end pens are interesting. I wish they had a mandrel for them. I guess if I really thought about it much, it wouldn't be too hard to come up with something.


Rick

Rick, for closed end pens check out

http://www.arizonasilhouette.com/Clo...en_Mandrel.htm

Your over there. Easy pickup Although, if you're into doing it a bit cheaper try

http://www.woodturner-russ.com/Pen61.html

Originally Posted by ss_11000

next you can try making your own 'centre band' out of horn, ebony, a different timber, plastics, metals etc. its the same thing as what you are doing but with a small peice of something else attached to the blank.

Stirlo, you CHAMPION hhhmmm .... I can see it now ... the

"STIRLO STYLE"

yellabox with ironbark band ... hhmm ... and a closed end .....

Gotta luv slimlines

have fun

David,
Thanks for the links. Now I need to convince the financial advisor that it is critical that she frees up the funds to purchase not only the mandrel, but the jacobs chuck as well lol. I guess I am just gonna have to be nice for a bit....yeah..like that is gonna happen lol.


Rick