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Some bowls - Natural edge.. many pics....
Finally getting a chance to upload some pics for X-mas presents. I started these in October..and thought I would have plenty of time..yeah right lol..
xmas eve I was up late enough I was concerned I might bump into and surprise that jolly dude....
Many firsts in these for me....first bowl and take it from there. We made a total of 14 of these.
I was VERY happy to get LOML out in shop helping me do some turning..she really enjoyed it and had some great ideas! I forgot to tell her about the part about how it is sometimes difficult to give away items you had worked so hard on....but that feeling quickly erased when we gave the first one away to her mom on xmas eve...it was a touching moment...everyone musta had some sawdust in their eyes or somethin' - exceptin' for me of course
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The darker woods are black walnut..the lighter ones are unknown.
I got the logs from my Sis/Brother-in-laws yard that were headed to the dump. They had been laying there for at least 10 years. I almost did not grab them because they had been laying there for so long..but was pleasantly surprised when I started cutting them up into turning blanks. All the bark had fell off most of them years ago.....so I think you would call these natural edge barkless bowls?? Some of the deeper cracks that developed over the years actually enhanced the look on some of them. We found a total of 9 nails - most large - embedded (overgrown) in the tree....had to regrind the bowl gouge a few times
Could be good excuse to get a metal detector. Went thru 4 bandsaw blades as well.
One tool that helped me tremendoulsy was Bill Grumbines dvd..do not know him, just a very happy customer. When I got in a bind..and there were MANY of those...I studied his video again and again....Also I got this whole design idea from Jim Ketron who has shared some of his works with us on this forum. Thanks again Jim! I had already cut the candle openings on most of them, when he advised I should go with the fuel type of candles instead of tea candles for a potential fire concern- they do tend to get warm..as a just in case, I found a brush on fire retardant material to help with this.
the pics should follow........I could not figure out how to caption individual pics so some notes now..The first cluster of bowls are in various stages of finish but most of them are walnut....but shows different styles that developed due to nails, oops, bad wood....and just because) One pic shows the tools "ghost" as the rough edge spins.
Thanks for looking!!
Steve
xmas eve I was up late enough I was concerned I might bump into and surprise that jolly dude....
Many firsts in these for me....first bowl and take it from there. We made a total of 14 of these.
I was VERY happy to get LOML out in shop helping me do some turning..she really enjoyed it and had some great ideas! I forgot to tell her about the part about how it is sometimes difficult to give away items you had worked so hard on....but that feeling quickly erased when we gave the first one away to her mom on xmas eve...it was a touching moment...everyone musta had some sawdust in their eyes or somethin' - exceptin' for me of course
~The darker woods are black walnut..the lighter ones are unknown.
I got the logs from my Sis/Brother-in-laws yard that were headed to the dump. They had been laying there for at least 10 years. I almost did not grab them because they had been laying there for so long..but was pleasantly surprised when I started cutting them up into turning blanks. All the bark had fell off most of them years ago.....so I think you would call these natural edge barkless bowls?? Some of the deeper cracks that developed over the years actually enhanced the look on some of them. We found a total of 9 nails - most large - embedded (overgrown) in the tree....had to regrind the bowl gouge a few times
Could be good excuse to get a metal detector. Went thru 4 bandsaw blades as well. One tool that helped me tremendoulsy was Bill Grumbines dvd..do not know him, just a very happy customer. When I got in a bind..and there were MANY of those...I studied his video again and again....Also I got this whole design idea from Jim Ketron who has shared some of his works with us on this forum. Thanks again Jim! I had already cut the candle openings on most of them, when he advised I should go with the fuel type of candles instead of tea candles for a potential fire concern- they do tend to get warm..as a just in case, I found a brush on fire retardant material to help with this.
the pics should follow........I could not figure out how to caption individual pics so some notes now..The first cluster of bowls are in various stages of finish but most of them are walnut....but shows different styles that developed due to nails, oops, bad wood....and just because
) One pic shows the tools "ghost" as the rough edge spins. Thanks for looking!!
Steve
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