Thread: A Few Turnings

Really nice Peter. My favorite is the Gmelina one - love the shape.

Great to see that Jacaranda spalts quite readily - I recently picked up a huge load - some logs around 80cm diameter. Have sawn most of them up into blanks and have rough turned a few.
I'm doing a trial with a couple of rough turned bowls to see if I can induce a quick spalting - will have a look in a couple weeks time to see how they look.

Originally Posted by Caveman

Really nice Peter. My favorite is the Gmelina one - love the shape.

Great to see that Jacaranda spalts quite readily - I recently picked up a huge load - some logs around 80cm diameter. Have sawn most of them up into blanks and have rough turned a few.
I'm doing a trial with a couple of rough turned bowls to see if I can induce a quick spalting - will have a look in a couple weeks time to see how they look.

Andy,
It gets quite "punky" and the wood loses it's strength so not too thin. The piece without any carving is quite thin and i had a problems with cracking also some areas become much "softer" than others and if you oversand you can end up with uneveness - smooth but bumpy. (hope this makes sense) not too noticable to the eye but can definatly be felt. Could be harden by soaking with thinned varnish and left to harden for a couple of days, solves tear-out of the punky areas when turning too. I oiled these after sealing with a few applications of shellac as a sealer BUT the wood still absorbed copious quantities of oil, maybe I should have used a sanding sealer. The oil gave it a nice golden yellow glow but lots of work.

Fredo,

Lots of sanding. Black Wattle is quite hard so sanding is quite a chore - lost my fingerprints for a couple of days and my fingers bled at least once or twice (DNA signature ) - ok for a dark timber like black wattle BUT a real pain with Gmelina - light AND porious/loose grained.

Peter

Always nice to your work, like them all some nice woods, but no 2 is the one for me. Well on keep um coming. LB