bowl turning thread

[devon TWiG]

You have been busy Steve !... nice work from some nice woods , I especially like the white flash on the spalted sycamore and the rippled Ash is a beaut as well . Not sure Ailanthus is underrated just not often cut down .....

[mickdundee]

Really nice stuff there Steve. Especially like the syc and the cherry

 

 

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[se7enthdevil]

You have been busy Steve !... nice work from some nice woods , I especially like the white flash on the spalted sycamore and the rippled Ash is a beaut as well . Not sure Ailanthus is underrated just not often cut down .....

 

more like laziness terry, just couldn't be bothered to put them up sometimes. could add loads more.

[se7enthdevil]

a couple of exotics here, the brandy glass is made from bubinga and the plate is a wood called ansenfina.

 

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[se7enthdevil]

a lovely bit of figured field maple here and then a nest of two in robinia.

 

if ailanthus isn't underrated then robinia certainly is in my opinion. a beautiful timber that finishes so easily and has so many uses but really only gets put on the fire...

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

a lovely bit of figured field maple here and then a nest of two in robinia.

 

if ailanthus isn't underrated then robinia certainly is in my opinion. a beautiful timber that finishes so easily and has so many uses but really only gets put on the fire...

 

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Cant agree more, did a lovely dry bit of Robinia the other day and its as good as oak in my opinion, and every bit as resilient, some of the old beams in my house are Robinia and no worm and tough as iron:thumbup1:

[se7enthdevil]

in my opinion it's better than oak as it dries better and should last that little bit longer in the elements as fence posts and other stuff in the ground.

[devon TWiG]

A couple of particularly nice hollow vessels I have done recently ....The second is from a bit of spalted beech with some burring , this is probably my favourite type of piece to do with the flared natural edge opening ( not easy but I feel it is worth the effort though !!) and the first is from the crotch of an Ash tree , which was then scorched and then sanded back through the char in the most figured areas to reveal the twisted /contorted grain , and then burnished and polished ....both are about 12-13 " tall ....

[bob]

A couple of particularly nice hollow vessels I have done recently ....The second is from a bit of spalted beech with some burring , this is probably my favourite type of piece to do with the flared natural edge opening ( not easy but I feel it is worth the effort though !!) and the first is from the crotch of an Ash tree , which was then scorched and then sanded back through the char in the most figured areas to reveal the twisted /contorted grain , and then burnished and polished ....both are about 12-13 " tall ....

 

Beautiful

[sandspider]

A couple of particularly nice hollow vessels I have done recently ....The second is from a bit of spalted beech with some burring , this is probably my favourite type of piece to do with the flared natural edge opening ( not easy but I feel it is worth the effort though !!) and the first is from the crotch of an Ash tree , which was then scorched and then sanded back through the char in the most figured areas to reveal the twisted /contorted grain , and then burnished and polished ....both are about 12-13 " tall ....

 

 

Really like the first one, locely.