bowl turning thread

[se7enthdevil]

does everyone else throw away bits with large cavities in???

 

this is the other half of the catalpa i bought from nepia and had a huge cavity in it with what look like internal roots

 

i managed to turn most of it away and the end result is passable as a blank.

 

lets hope it doesn't split at the rotten edge of the rim.

 

don't think you expected the cavity to be quite that big did you jon?

 

 

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[nepia]

Cavity; what cavity?

 

 

 

 

I see no ships!

[Pete Hart]

 

A small jewellery bowl i turned from Burr acacia - My absolute favourite wood.

Not a spectacular piece of turning but the wood is the champion in my opinion!

 

As I've mentioned in a few pm's to Clive there's a lovely stem of heavily burred acacia lying in my friends woodland (which hopefully we will be dealing with very soon).

[Pete Hart]

Forgot to mention that the bowl came from the same tree (a burr from the branch wood).

[Pete Hart]

A shallow fruit bowl made from some spalted beech.

Just bought some 'cole jaws' so I can make myself a reverse mount chuck. Enabling me to 'turn off' my original chuck mounting. I think personally that it will improve the look of my pieces - well that's the hope anyway!!

A spalted beech pen holder turned in 20 mins - my workbench desperately needed this addition as my pens and pencils were very often mislaid or would roll off onto the floor before!

A selection of bowl blanks cut from a mixture of woods gathered from tree work. All ready to be sealed and air dried.

Dug out this 15" x 4&1/2" spalted beech bowl blank I cut a while ago - might have to be my next project!

[delabodge]

great stuff yaffle!!

[Stihlben]

From a log off my pile, large diameter hazel (10") just a shame about the shake through the log.... Quite a pretty grain

[Pete Hart]

I've got a windblown magnolia booked in for Thursday this week. The tree has quite a nice straight main stem on it 18-20" diameter. Could be nice for some small bowl blanks. Anyone had any good results from turning Magnolia before?

[nepia]

I think there's someone here who'll bite your arm off for it if it's going...!

[Pete Hart]

I think there's someone here who'll bite your arm off for it if it's going...!

 

Initially im thinking of its pottential for my own use, however all my blanks/timber are always up for sale.