se7enthdevil
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i will keep em coming but this thread is for others too, come on , i want to see more bowls.
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don't you dare.... give me some sizes please. i'll see if i can arrange a pallet.
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just been milling some really nice field maple with delabodge and slackbladder. it's stunning stuff and i'm glad it's been saved from the log pile. thanks to nepia for offering it to me and thanks to delabodge for letting us use his facilities. just wish i'd taken more pictures... you'l have to take my word for it that every single board had figure in it of some description. the last three pics are of some box elder that nepia got me too. cheers jon. .
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what sizes you after?
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now they look like this. .
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this walnut from clive is top notch stuff... the first nest completed. they started out like this, .
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i'm interested but am too far away. get it to a woodturner. it should come out like this, http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/woodcraft-forum/65439-bowl-turning-thread-37.html
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finished the larger of those cedar bowls too. .
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not a bowl but i've just made my first urn. .
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finished the inside of that walnut and you can really see the ripple stand out.
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whoops, wrong name. sorry... this is his user id. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/members/aspenarb.html here is his website. Tree Felling & Hedge Cutting in Guildford - Aspen Arboricultural
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that tree should not be wasted. if it can stay standing then try that but if it must come down then make sure it's milled. arbscape might be interested, he's just bought his own mizer and may want it.
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my understanding is that they've tried to work out just how it happens and as far as i know they are no closer to working it out as it seems to happen in all conditions with all sorts of factors involved. they still don't know how maple gets that birdseye figure. wood is a natural product and it seems to be luck of the drawer. you do get patches under branches so it's got to be some sort of compression but there is no definitive answer.
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i'll create more than that with the bowls i've yet to turn. in the loft i have about 150 for savil gardens, 30-40 of my own personal wood and the 101 i got from the walnut tree clive cut up.
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if straigt grained ash is very stable and doesn't shrink that much so could be ok for green manufacture, in saying that i would cut enough for the components and leave for 6 months before you start it. perhaps you could do this, build yourself a bench from spruce whilst green, at the same time cut the ash for a bench and in 12-18 months make a proper bench if the spruce one is not standing up to the punishment. if its still ok then wait till it falls apart then you have dry ash to build it's replacement from... oils should not be needed if its a work bench...
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not even sure how to describe this?
se7enthdevil replied to fergusonforestry's topic in Large equipment
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lastly i roughed out some field maple a while back so thought i'd see how it finishes and it's another one that looks cracking... i'm yet to see a bit of field maple that is not figured, anyone who chops it up for firewood needs to be shot. .
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here is more of delabodge's walnut. some people call this figured or marbled, i call it bloody gorgeous... .
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16" cedar platter and two bits from the same lump. the orange in the last pic is the start of rot.
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here are a few of the ones i've done today. 18" catalpa. .
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boy have i had fun today. i love it when you get a rough looking lump of wood and once turned you find some magnificent grain underneath.
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i've done you a nest of three jon, just need to do the other half, sadly not kept that fab green colour but they look nice mate...
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cheers guy, this is definitely one of those times where the wood does most of the work and i can take the credit. have had a bit of trouble with sanding some of the walnut as it's a bit on the softer side for timber and i've had even more trouble with catalpa as it tear so easily... delabodge, i'll get on with some soon mate and try to give you loads for christmas.
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if it's to be bashed about then use the ash you have or make a whole bench from oak. pop an syc are too soft for lumps of metal being chucked about on it.
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most of the slightly harder hardwoods will be fine. personally i would go for beech. what do you have access to?
