Lary Sanders

[Lary Sanders]

Hi Everyone.

I am a recently retired Professor (chemistry) and full-time furniture maker. My turning journey started in ’93 with making a scale solar system for my kids. My lathe ismy dads’ early 50’s Rockwell lathe shown in the pic, 11". My turning generally comes in spurts when I get new green wood or get some ideas. Unfortunately, this means it takes me awhile to relearn the skills each time. Shown is the quaich I’m turning for my son’s anniversary (my wife is Scottish). This is how it still is as it got interrupted by a gift of a log. Should have just finished it them but I had to get the log off our friends yard, etc. etc. I’ll get back to it as soon as I get done processing the green log into bowl blanks or bowls. I’ll be posting some questions regarding this log.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Welcome. You’ll enjoy it here.

 

[Kent Reisdorph]

Welcome, Lary!

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Welcome aboard. Think you will find many answers Here.

 

[John K Jordan]

Hi Everyone.

I am a recently retired Professor (chemistry) and full-time furniture maker. My turning journey started in ’93 with making a scale solar system for my kids. My lathe ismy dads’ early 50’s Rockwell lathe shown in the pic, 11". My turning generally comes in spurts when I get new green wood or get some ideas. Unfortunately, this means it takes me awhile to relearn the skills each time. Shown is the quaich I’m turning for my son’s anniversary (my wife is Scottish). This is how it still is as it got interrupted by a gift of a log. Should have just finished it them but I had to get the log off our friends yard, etc. etc. I’ll get back to it as soon as I get done processing the green log into bowl blanks or bowls. I’ll be posting some questions regarding this log.

Hello Lary!
Chemistry experts are wonderful to know!
Methinks the solution to spurts of turning is to stock up on turning wood! Processing wood is a great "hobby."

One of my favorite things to do is process logs into turning blanks and dry them. (I almost always turn dry wood) I've been doing this for a long time so I always have plenty of wood to work with (and enough to pass some to friends and students.) We have plenty of trees on the farm here, some downed by the weather and some that had to be removed, and am fortunate to have equipment to lift and move even large logs. Although I have a Woodmizer bandsaw which can help cut big wood down to slab size, I do most of my processing on the shop bandsaw.

Some blanks take years to dry so I try to regularly process a little in my spare time. Some has been drying for about 20 years now. This month I'm working on some persimmon logs, some cherry, and need to take down a big sassafras tree. (I find persimmon wonderful for turning, it's a form of ebony.)

If you are interested, I posted a video here about processing green wood. It's a cut-down version of my 4hr bandsaw course so I had to leave out a lot, especially details of successfully drying.

Making useful turning blanks from logs

My “Logs to Blanks” video shows how I use a shop bandsaw to make useful turning blanks from log sections. I almost always turn dry wood so I include a little information on drying. I made this video during the Covid pandemic for a club Zoom meeting demo. It’s long, about 45 minutes, but it’s...

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JKJ