What’s on your lathe?

[David Wyke]

Finishing up a 16 x 12-3/4 x 5/1/4 (once tenon is removed). Applied first coat of walnut oil and missed a couple of burnish marks😡, should have wiped it down with some DA and I would have seen them before the oil was applied. So I’ll wait t week and sand those two marks out.
You guys have mentioned applying DO, what exactly is DO?

 

[Brian Gustin]

You guys have mentioned applying DO, what exactly is DO?

DO - Danish Oil - a type of varnish finish sorta like Formby's (Now Miniwax) Tung Oil, I believe... Contrary to popular believe it is not made from squeezing Danes...

 

[David Wyke]

DO - Danish Oil - a type of varnish finish sorta like Formby's (Now Miniwax) Tung Oil, I believe... Contrary to popular believe it is not made from squeezing Danes...

Okay 😂, I use a lot of Danish Oil but was racking my brain trying to figure out what DO was😂

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Piece of sycamore on the lathe… have to go do some work… to be continued

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Okay 😂, I use a lot of Danish Oil but was racking my brain trying to figure out want DO was😂

TMDA*

*Too many damn abbreviations.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Our snow is finally melted, still barely above freezing but good enough to make a few pictures of recently finished turnings, did little turning as it is just too cold to enjoy turning.

This is a Black Walnut piece (vessel/box) that I choose to show off this very figured White Birch piece I turned into a lid, it shows the changing chatoyance constantly when rotating it it.

 

[Brian Kopp]

Two bfab’s. First is a 14”x4” bowl made from a piece of hard maple butcher block countertop:

Second is a 10”x4” bowl made from a piece of acacia butcher block countertop:

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

This is a long time waiting Mulberry bowl that I finally returned and finished, 8"X5" and I now made the pictures.

 

[Phil Hamel]

Prepped up some of the maple I got Wednesday.

Didn't want to wait so I turned a quick live edge bowl to see what it would look like. Thing warped 2 inches overnight.

 

[odie]

The perfect burl I showed the other day was finished last night.

Australian Yellow Box burl...

(Still wet from DO) Has extreme undercut rim.

-o-

 

[Bob Hall]

Gorgeous. That DO really brings it to life.

Bob

 

[Paul Paukstelis]

Can't decide how I feel about this root ball burl. I've been driving by it sitting on the side of the road for at least 6 months. The hidden pockets of dirt and rocks did a number on my chainsaw and tools.

 

[Spike Cornelius]

Can't decide how I feel about this root ball burl. I've been driving by it sitting on the side of the road for at least 6 months. The hidden pockets of dirt and rocks did a number on my chainsaw and tools.

A pain for sure, but should be fabulous when done!

 

[Kevin Weir]

Roughing out a flamed box elder urn.

 

[Steve Nix]

Largest, 15”x 6”, of three cored Mesquite bowls with first coat of Danish oil..

 

[David Wyke]

A Historic Foundation ask me if I could turn a bowl from a piece of a white oak they cut down beside a church they are preserving. I of course said yes and I wouldn’t charge them anything. Well I did the second turning today on the two bowls and had a piece I was able to turn a plate….an offering plate …you know…just in case 😂😂

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

A Historic Foundation ask me if I could turn a bowl from a piece of a white oak they cut down beside a church they are preserving. I of course said yes and I wouldn’t charge them anything. Well I did the second turning today on the two bowls and had a piece I was able to turn a plate….an offering plate …you know…just in case 😂😂

Very nice turnings from that Oak wood David, is it dry already ? , if not, be careful drying it,😍.

 

[David Wyke]

Very nice turnings from that Oak wood David, is it dry already ? , if not, be careful drying it,😍.

Dry and hard as a rock😁. I did the first turning several months ago.

 

[Sarah S Elkind]

Turned on a pole lathe?

Not this time. Turned that one on a Oneway at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship.

 

[James Seyfried]

A few years ago I started turning this piece of Cherry burl and after I got started a ways ants started flying out of it. I sprayed it with raid or something and set it aside. I have looked at it and couldn't decide if it was worth trying to turn. A couple of days ago I decided to give it a go. When I got the inside to shape it had quite a big void that I thought needed filling to have a base. I used a little ground turquoise and epoxy. Some spots are a little soft so I put a coat of DO before I finish sand it. Still not sure how I'll finish the foot, but at least now there will be something to finish.

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Update on that piece of sycamore

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

A plain Applewood bowl, about 3"X7", PTO finish.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

A plain Applewood bowl, about 3"X7", PTO finish.

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Nice Leo! Funny side note, when I see pieces finished with PTO, I always think of finished with Power Take Off for a tractor 😁

 

[Brian Gustin]

Nice Leo! Funny side note, when I see pieces finished with PTO, I always think of finished with Power Take Off for a tractor 😁

My first thought was "finished by the Parent-Teacher Organization... ?" Took me a little while to get used to thinking "Polymerized Tung Oil"

 

[James Seyfried]

I'm working on cleaning up the shop, some bowls aren't making the cut for finishing. So they are providing some warmth and entertainment in the burn pile. I may post this picture by the lathe as a warning to other rough outs as to what their fate may be if they don't behave.



Here is another one that I have had almost finished for a least a year, I think it is elm. It has a small crack on one of the sides that I wasn't sure about. But I really like the feather pattern so I decided to finish it. It has been turned once and I left a bit on the base to carve feet. The base warped a bit so as you can see in the first picture that I will need to level the feet. It is finished with DO and is still wet in these pictures.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Eastern red cedar. Nine inches x 7" deep. This tree had been dead for a long time when I cut it down a year ago. Lots of punky areas that ended up as holes. Bottom needs some finish still.

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

Funny side note, when I see pieces finished with PTO, I always think of finished with Power Take Off for a tractor 😁

I already questioned that a couple years ago

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Here is the inside view of my box I posted on the gallery. I shows the thin walls pretty well....

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Here’s the state of the second in the series, and the third piece is on the lathe now.

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Got this far on the third of the series of sycamore sculpture pieces (before a half hour drive south to meet a transporter for the regional bird rescue & rehab. Got to climb a pine and place this young Great Horned Owl back where its parents could guide it along. Left a 1/2 dozen mice and two rats hung around the tree for him. He’s what is termed a ‘brancher’ - developed enough to hop from branch to branch.)

Turning Etimoe disks to go at the two focal points.
Then I’ll turn away the back half, leaving just a few circular ribs to hold the pieces in place.

 

[odie]

Big Leaf Maple burl finished last night at 1:30am!

-o-

 

[Alan Weinberg]

8 inch diameter claro walnut rough turned

 

[Michael Anderson]

Finish turning a swamp Kauri bowl. Will be 9.5”d x ~3.5”h when complete. A turner sent me a blank from New Zealand and challenged me to mimic a smaller bowl he made. Fun! This is quite a challenging timber to turn. It is extremely soft, very stringy, and dulls tools quickly. The reward is fairly intense chatoyancy and a rich color.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Finish turning a swamp Kauri bowl. Will be 9.5”d x ~3.5”h when complete. A turner sent me a blank from New Zealand and challenged me to mimic a smaller bowl he made. Fun! This is quite a challenging timber to turn. It is extremely soft, quite stringy, and dulls tools quickly. The reward is fairly intense chatoyancy and a rich color.

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Wondered where you’d been! Nice work.

 

[Michael Anderson]

Wondered where you’d been! Nice work.

Thanks Alan! I’ve been silently chugging away at some unfinished projects.

 

[Dave Hulett]

First time working with Sassafras. Unfortunately, my blocks were bone dry so I didn’t get to experience the apparently wonderful smell when green-turned. Still, it turns nicely and sands well. Here is a piece after some preliminary sanding at 150.

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whenever I work with sassafras my shop smells like an A&W root beer stand!

 

[Michael Anderson]

whenever I work with sassafras my shop smells like an A&W root beer stand!

That sounds wonderful!! 🤩

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

One of my latest finished pieces is a good looking Maple bowl.

It has a lot of curl and some quilting and black lines, they look like spalting but I don't think it is.
I do like it, about 3"X10" and finished with PTO.

 

[John Parker]

Just finished this small bowl from a salvaged piece of heart pine from a swamp in Florida.

 

[Bob Brown]

Update on that piece of sycamore

Interesting jig. Your design?