Moar cherry burl.
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What’s on your lathe?
- Thread starter Rusty Nesmith
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Catalpa(?) crotch, about 3" x 10". Whatever it is, it's soft and fuzzy. I managed to get a decent surface with a skew chisel, then proceeded to break the tenon when the hollowing began. I saved it by sawing off the tenon fragments, cutting a tight recess in a glue block and centering the natural edge mouth with a tapered tailstock extension in the 1/2" pilot hole. I like showing off crotch figure in a (very) slightly tapered vase form.
Black Limba (Terminalia superba)? I got some from a dealer in Atlanta years ago, turned a couple of things. Easy to turn but kind of soft.
Alan
That's a bowl form that is not seen so often. I like it!
It exposes more of the side grain and makes the best of that orientation in some species and pieces of wood.
I do a version of it myself, but like yours execution of it better.
Odie
Panning for Montana gold, with Betsy, the mule!
The Red Mallee Burl bowl was finished up around midnight last night......
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Beautiful, Odie! And getting those consistent accent grooves with all those interrupted cuts must have been tricky.
From what I understand, Limba is Limba. "Black" Limba just has more dark color and figure, and is generally prettier wood. The little 4-inch square trays I make with it just fly off my table at shows (probably because they're the least expensive trays I make). And yes, it is really soft, and quite chippy in my experience, thus requiring light cuts with razor-sharp gouges.
Odie
Panning for Montana gold, with Betsy, the mule!
Thank you Aaron.....
You're right! I was optimistic, but concerned while doing the grooves. To tell you the truth, getting a clean cut on the surface prior to doing the grooves was even more challenging. Not to mention sanding those surfaces. Sanding there was done off the lathe and completely by hand. Doing any sanding while rotating on the lathe was impossible without rounding over the leading edge after the void.
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