Aaron - Thanks - Yes the glossy finishes on my site are CA finish. I have a love hate relationship with ca finishing. Love the end results when everything works. This piece had some areas that had white spots on the darker wood that had to be sanded out and recoated. Yes occasionally I have sanded through the finish but that has become less frequent over time. I do power sand the ca back with the lathe running very slowly and the sander running slow. I coat my pieces in this order to reduce the ripples in the finish (2 coats thin, 2 coats medium thin, 4 coats medium, 2 coats medium thin, 2 coats thin).
I checked out your work at the gallery, remarkable! I'm a fan.
I'd like to make a set of jaw plates about 18" in diameter. For larger work, I use a 6" Yuasa three-jaw chuck with two-piece jaws on my New Haven lathe. I made the dovetail jaws shown. They are reversible for 4" and 6" dovetail cavities - I typically use cavities instead of tenons. I'll make a new set of blank jaws and weld the plate segments to them.
Sam, next time, have a spray bottle handy. Just mist a little water on it and then very gently turn away the wet wood. It may take a couple of tries to get the tear out tamed. I prefer a shear scrape for final clean up, but that can vary from piece to piece since all woods, even from the same tree are different....A plain ash dog dish that has been kicking my butt!
I couldn't get rid of the tear out so I gave up and sanded till that got tiring. I must have sharpened 4 times both 1/2 and 5/8 gouge.
Best I've come up with if someone asks about the marks is "It's emerald ash borer marks" It's my story and I'm sticking with it.
What a coincidence, I was just looking at sheer scraping on you tube. Do both sides of the flute touch the bowl or is the top just so close the camera doesn't pick up the gap?
If you refer to shear scraping with an ellsworth (or other winged style) grind bowl gouge, then yeah just the one wing touches bowl , other wing of the flute is just so close to the wood, the gap is not easily seen. Be careful and practice the shear scrape with some "practice wood" before going to mission-critical cuts though - it is quite easy to roll the gouge a little too far and end up with an unsupported cut resulting in a catch (Typically at a spot close to the nose, especially doing inside of a bowl, which is far trickier than the outside).
I think Osage Orange is one of it's names. Bois D'arc pronounced BO-DARK in Texan is what it's commonly called here.
Hope not! At least for a while!
Looking good!, are we on the same schedule or something? I just got a can of black lacquer after watching a video of a guy making one.
Yeah, I'm starting to think so...
Lid screwed into fixture ready to dismount.
Urn body finished base just need to dismount and chisel/sand the nubin from the live center.
That is the Nova live center with #2 morse taper tips and the one shown is a single point with a 1/4" shaft and I made a 5/16" o.d. sleeve to fit over it to make it a miniature cup center.
Looking good Michael, beautiful wood, never seen Redbud that big, I planted one years ago, then moved away, we just enjoyed the flowers in spring.
