Thread: Some special Bonewood

Better you than me 1 mm wall thickness on 300 mm dia is just too horrible to contemplate now one centimeter might be more my style lol. I knew there was a good reason to have a baby lathe ,nothing bigger than pens hehe , But you are right that spalting is a real bonus , Cheers ~ John

Amazing Spalting in that wood, Please post the final form, to looks likely to be truly stunning.

Great looking piece, love that spalting.

Will be a few rear end clenching moments getting it down to 1mm wall thickness, good luck.

Yum,yum,yum!!!

Looks awesome! I love the way wood can do this to you...

1mm wall thickness with that grain? A fair bit of CA? More like a bit of spalted bonewood will be left to give the CA some colour I'm very interested to see the final result. Should be amazing.

Cheers,
Dave

white or not white mate it sure is a lovely begining, i'm sure you'll do it justice, i'm with the others, want to see it when its done, this may seem an odd question but i'll go on an ask anyways, wouldn't that have made some nice pens with that much figuring?

Neal.

wouldn't that have made some nice pens with that much figuring?

The would be taking the easy way out!

I'm really keen to see this finished. What are the dimensions now, roughly? Or perhaps, what are you aiming for, aside from nonexistent walls?

Brendan

Wow, that wood is really very beautiful.
Can't wait to see it finished.
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Nice work Neil, but why so thin with the wall?

Geez Neil, if I had of known that was inside those logs I would have shoved one under my jumper and made off with it when I visited.

Going 1mm thick..... better you than me I think

It may have been a 300mm log, thick bark and not round actually means a piece a lot less, now around 140mm dia. Yes 1mm is very ambitious , especially with a spalted and stabilized timber like this , it will probably end up a lot more .

At Turnfest11 one of the demonstators reduced some NIP ~400-500dia x ~300 deep down to less than 1mm for a lamp shade . I was very impressed and wanted to give it a go.

This is not NIP nor sopping wet, but worth a try. I'll start at the bottom (top of blank) and see how thin I can get it. If it tears, the bottom dia of the hole will increase , and so will the wall thickness I aim for

Yet another project on the go in the shed

Very nice Neil.

You didn't repossess your chair when you were at the club??

Originally Posted by Swino

You didn't repossess your chair when you were at the club??

Yeh, that's why I was there. Can't just keave it there to have others nick it

Ackershully, 1mm is easy.

The hard part is not going past it once you're there!

That'll be a truly stunning piece if you can pull it off; even if you don't go as thin as you'd like. G'luck!