Log coring

[Lennart Delin]

Many use bowl coring tools where you can create several blanks from one blank instead of shavings. A variation is to cut a number of cones from a log. Here I have done it with a large shop made parting tool 8x40x930 mm, rough-turned the cones into blanks and allowed to dry. Then finished turning. As usual, a number of layers of Osmo 3032 for surface treatment. Oak 29x13 cm.

 

[John K Jordan]

What is the species shown?

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Let’s see a picture of the parting tool also. Very ingenious indeed!

 

[Lennart Delin]

What is the species shown?

Oak, Quercus robur. Might add that it is the most perfect oak log I have come across, not even a tendency to crack.

 

[Lennart Delin]

Let’s see a picture of the parting tool also. Very ingenious indeed!

Just an iron bar with some hardweld to make a cutting edge.

 

[John K Jordan]

Oak, Quercus robur. Might add that it is the most perfect oak log I have come across, not even a tendency to crack.

I looked that up - English Oak, I see Wood Database classifies it as a type of white oak but a little softer and lighter weight than what we see. I don't think I've ever seen English Oak around here, at least not on our property. The wood is beautiful! We have a LOT of red oak (usually not very stable) and white oak (probably not as stable as what you used).

You could ship me a log but, yikes, the cost! Maybe push a log into the ocean and aim it this way - I'll drive down to Myrtle Beach and look for it.

That's an ingenious way of coring. Your method allows room for expression while turning. I might try that on a sassafras log - usually quite stable.

I assume you made the tool tip a little wider than the shaft.

JKJ

 

[Darryn Achall]

Thinking I may be able to use the articulating arm to do this if I can come up with a homemade cutting bar similar to your parting tool.