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3rd July 2021, 08:50 PM #1
Sheoak
OK thought it might be better to start another thread for the completed bowl
The concept was and still is to produce an aged bowl. So with that I filled a minimum of cracks with resin in order to keep it together during turning. Then allow it to distort after turning with one coat of oil, so far the movement is small. 200mm dia x 125mm highInspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
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4th July 2021, 09:38 PM #2
You are a brave man Hughie... even so it looks good.
JimSometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important...
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6th July 2021, 08:07 AM #3Senior Member
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I have this vague memory of a conversation I had with an old bush-worker up here many years ago about she/forest oak. It was a popular fuel for baker's ovens back when he was younger and there is some vague recollection that you stored freshly cut oak under (running ?) water for a while to stop it splitting. Now, this could be right and it could be wrong but I will put it out there if someone wants to try it. Perhaps the water washed something out of the timber or just slowed the drying/shrinking process, I don't know. But he had some nice timber in his little hut in the bush.
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6th July 2021, 09:54 AM #6SENIOR MEMBER
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It wluld stop the drying and therefore shrinking process, sawmillers down here will run sprinklers on their log piles to stop them drying and cracking before milling. Soaking may have other effects as well, dont know. A friend gave me a length of Eucalyptus ? that he found buried in the mud in the bottom of a farm dam when it was being cleaned out. It had likely been there for many tens of years. It split quite a bit when exposed to air.
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6th July 2021, 10:30 AM #7Senior Member
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Tony,I don't really know what variety of forest oak we have here near Wauchope but when Timbertown was working (about 40 years ago) they had a bloke splitting shingles and there was a bakery there that used forest oak for the bread oven. Apparently it burned hotter and cleaner than anything else available. As for the soaking, perhaps it was to slow down the drying and cracking just long enough to cut a few boards out of a log. About the only thing I have seen made out of the stuff recently is small boxes and pens. River oak is similar but the grain and character is a bit more bland but it still splits as it dries but perhaps not as badly.
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8th July 2021, 01:42 PM #8
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8th July 2021, 03:33 PM #9Senior Member
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I never could understand why people used the darn things but if you had no money but you had forest oak (rather than the oaks by the river) then that was what you used. If you were good with a broad axe and a maul and wedges then you made the rest of the house out of what was nearby. Those were hard times and I thank the Good Lord that I missed them. There is a little burial ground at Ellenborough. The inscriptions on the headstones make enlightening reading.
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9th July 2021, 10:04 AM #12
And a good thing it is that we get our jollies from working in different ways... vive la différence!
I could no more do what you do Jim, or for that matter Hughie, than pick up my lathe and throw it out the door of my workshop...
But, through our differences the world gets to have more variety in woodturned pieces to enjoy!Stay sharp and stay safe!
Neil
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9th July 2021, 06:11 PM #13SENIOR MEMBER
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Some of the best Sheoak I`ve come across have been from trees that have fallen a fair while, more than the 40 years we`ve been here and covered in moss and general forest litter, so the longer and I would say cooler the drying process and the larger the piece the better outcome.Keeping it stored in water or constantly wet is great for storing it in a stable condition, but you have to dry it out sometime, you will alway get splitting but far less in the old dead stuff.As for a great firewood we can definitely vouch for that, our woodfired oven is going all winter.