Thread: Newest efforts

Very nice, love the color of the bottlebrush and the camphor has similarities to ours here

Beautiful work Caveman. Your Bottlebrush has much nicer colour than the crap I've tried here - was so bland I turfed the stuff! Nice piece. The Camphor must be a very close relative - looks good. I've no idea what the other might be but it's amazing what you get from some pallets eh! I've got some stuff that came from Asia that is as black as ebony - must use it on something one day

All marvellous stuff, the 3rd one looks like oregan.

Hi Andy,

As Vern says the bottle brush came up real well. The Camphor looks similar, I think climate also effects it. South of Sydney in Melbourne they don't seem to get the same wide colouring, browns to almost black and good flashes of red speckle.The older the tree the better the colour it seems.
Hmm dunno about the last one. The last pallet I used from Europe was made from the Baltic pine family, its a cheap and common timber there so I am told. But paler than yours and soft as butter.

I like they way you have added the rings to the edges, definitely dresses it up, nice touch.

G'day, Andy.
Some really nice work... I really like the rim treatments... timbers are all nice too. I nabbed a few pieces of camphor in Georgia last April... but neither piece looked like yours... snappy grain!!! Shed did smell good, tho.
I think that conifer must have been really soft... but you made it look good!

Thanks guys for the comments.
Struggled to get cleanly 'grooves' around the top of the rim. Used the point of a sort of small skew chisel type thing.
What do reckon would be the best tool for this job that wouldn't tear the grain?

The rescued pallet piece sure was soft - serious tearout before sharpening the gouge and finishing with real light touch. I guess all conifers are like that though.

Nice touch with the grooves, Andy. Even did the bottom of #1 - that's finesse. #2 also? Third one looks like some sort of pine, but that doesn't narrow it down much. I also use the tip of the small skew. Seems to work best with a slicing cut & slow advance into the work.

Joe

Originally Posted by joe greiner

Even did the bottom of #1 - that's finesse. #2 also? Third one looks like some sort of pine, but that doesn't narrow it down much. I also use the tip of the small skew. Joe

Thanks Joe,
Only 'grooved' the bottom of the bottlebrush one. Kinda like it though and will definitaly use it more.

wat they said.....cool lookin bowls mate

Andy, fine work and beautiful wood!!

Originally Posted by Gil Jones

Andy, fine work and beautiful wood!!

Yeah what he said. Great job

G'Day Andy

Very nice certainly different bottle brush to what I have.

Cheers
Bernie

Originally Posted by Caveman

Struggled to get cleanly 'grooves' around the top of the rim. Used the point of a sort of small skew chisel type thing.
What do reckon would be the best tool for this job that wouldn't tear the grain?

A V point scraper can be used too; it has the advantage when fresh ground of burrs on both edges.

Or with a firm and confident approach, use the skew with cutting edge vertical making the groove with the long point, first from one side and then from the other. (I used to cut my bowl recesses with a vertical skew til I learned easier ways).

G'day - thanks all for the kind comments.

Originally Posted by rsser

A V point scraper can be used too; it has the advantage when fresh ground of burrs on both edges.

Thanks Ern - now that you mention it, I actually have a V point scraper need to find where it is hiding. Albeit an ancient thing - carbon steel - donated to me a while back. Should do the trick - will give it a go.