Where is the best place to section a Crotch to preserve the most figure since most of the figure is closest to the center of the log.
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Place to section log with Crotch
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great thread, i've been trying to get figure from them and find that i get two piths on the side of the bowl from smaller trees (about 16" diameter). real large crotchs are too heavy for me to deal with.
figured wood on one side of a bowl can be found on the outside half of a crotch, and its a hard one to turn green as the figured side cuts harder than the softer side. this spliting it in half away from the pith and away from the crotch. hopefully you can understand these directions...
great thread, i've been trying to get figure from them and find that i get two piths on the side of the bowl from smaller trees (about 16" diameter). real large crotchs are too heavy for me to deal with.
figured wood on one side of a bowl can be found on the outside half of a crotch, and its a hard one to turn green as the figured side cuts harder than the softer side. this spliting it in half away from the pith and away from the crotch. hopefully you can understand these directions...
My approach to a crotch is to section, or split the log just to the side of the pith, with the pith being in the bottow of the natural edge bowl I' going to turn. I'll turn away the pith later. This puts the maximum amount of the "flame" pattern from the crotch where it will be seen in the bottom of the bowl. If I leave the two "branches" about the same length from the apex of the Y as the base trunk, I'll get a sort of heart shaped bowl or platter.
Hope this helps.
Whit
Hope this helps.
Whit
I cut them just like I would a full log, cut out a slab including all piths (in a y shape). You then have two blanks with nice feather and a slab you can make a platter or bottle stoppers with.
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Crotch Wood Cutting Methods
I have been trying various methods for getting the most out of a crotch log. The following figures show 3 ways that have been tried to get a decent looking bowl. The drawing shows a cross-section through a crotch log with the pith in red and the best figure in the central section in blue.
This works. Method A
This works. Method B
This does not work as you hog out the very difficult grain and are left with very little figure.
This walnut bowl has both piths almost showing on the sides and would result from method A.
This bowl has pith on one side and might have been from Method B. Sorry I didn't log this bowl with the method 6 months ago!!
This example has good balance and is Method A.
I have been trying various methods for getting the most out of a crotch log. The following figures show 3 ways that have been tried to get a decent looking bowl. The drawing shows a cross-section through a crotch log with the pith in red and the best figure in the central section in blue.
This works. Method A
This works. Method B
This does not work as you hog out the very difficult grain and are left with very little figure.
This walnut bowl has both piths almost showing on the sides and would result from method A.
This bowl has pith on one side and might have been from Method B. Sorry I didn't log this bowl with the method 6 months ago!!
This example has good balance and is Method A.