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What’s on your lathe?

About 6 years ago I was given an eastern white pine saw log at about 36" diameter x 12 feet long so I milled it into one 8 x 8,several 6x 6 and miscellaneous odd pieces. The 8x 8 was turned into 2 barber poles and the 6x6's were in storage until this past summer, when I extended the deck on my home and built a 3 season porch using 6x 6's for the corners. The scraps from the 6x6's were too good to just burn so I took some to our last meeting of the "MN Lakes Woodturners" and they went right away. I then decided that I should try to make something out of it myself so I settled on a keep sake urn and all of the cremation urns I make have threaded lids. The female thread on this one is 1.75"-8 and was reinforced with CA.
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Must be the season for Cherry bowls. I have been working on finishing up four that I had roughed out. I have three almost finished. The fourth is being delayed by quad maintenance and the weather. Got the quad dialed in, now I have to put on the snow plow and plow the driveway. These are all about 11" in diameter. and finished with Danish oil.

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I wouldn't normally save a piece with such a defect, but this is another one that came from the school grounds that will be donated to their auction. Heavy duty dumbell "pewa" should keep it from coming apart further.
 

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John Redding said:
I forgot to take a picture when it was on the lathe, but this is what just came off. It’s olive harvested from a neighbor’s tree about 15 years ago while still in Southern California. Finish is pure tung oil followed by carnauba wax. Sorry for the rotation problem - can’t get it to appear correctly. View attachment 82149
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Real pretty wood and form. Cool how it sticks to the wall, too! (Just kidding—I’ve occasionally and randomly had the same issue.)
 
John Redding said:
I forgot to take a picture when it was on the lathe, but this is what just came off. It’s olive harvested from a neighbor’s tree about 15 years ago while still in Southern California. Finish is pure tung oil followed by carnauba wax. Sorry for the rotation problem - can’t get it to appear correctly. View attachment 82149
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Started out as a tricornered bowl from a piece of wood glued up and given to my daughter by one of our club members. (Two blocks of equal size) He didn’t want it because he was frustrated with the wood chipping out. It is three or four different types of wood. He couldn’t identify all of them, but we all believe that it is walnut and wenge, along with a couple of maybes. Originally planned on making one and my daughter making one as a sort of competition. However, her version curved over into a sort of tulip shaped form. She had not planned it that way. We discussed it and she decided that she liked the shape and would try her first hollow form. Because she had never tried a hollow form before I ended up helping and it became a cooperative piece. Problems developed when we tried to make the points thin. The tips kept breaking off given the direction of the grain due to the glue up. It no longer resembles a tulip and we have started referring to the piece as the “Claw”. She wants to turn a pedestal for it once it is finished being turned.

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Kent Reisdorph said:
I like those colored rims. The hats ain't bad, either.
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James Seyfried said:
Must be the season for Cherry bowls. I have been working on finishing up four that I had roughed out. I have three almost finished. The fourth is being delayed by quad maintenance and the weather. Got the quad dialed in, now I have to put on the snow plow and plow the driveway. These are all about 11" in diameter. and finished with Danish oil.

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Beautiful form!
 
Tom McDonnell said:
Repairs and rejects hang on a tree in backyard.
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A potter friend also takes his rejects to the back yard. However, he said it was satisfying to smash the pieces - he had an very interesting multi-colored pile of kiln-fired ceramic shards.

I put my smaller rejects into my Box O' Shame. I get the box out when a student is bummed out from a mistake - I want them to know it happens to everyone! People usually don't have their rejects displayed in club show&tells, web sites, craft fairs, magazines, and galleries!

JKJ
 
Tom McDonnell said:
Repairs and rejects hang on a tree in backyard.
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My #1 hobby is motorcycles. The most famous road in the US is Deal’s Gap, also called tail of the dragon, in TN/NC. There is a very old tree where riders have been hanging broken parts from crashes on the road since the ‘60’s, called The Tree of Shame. Though I’ve ridden the road 100’s of times, I’ve happily never had the dishonor of hanging a part there.

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Doug Freeman said:
My #1 hobby is motorcycles. The most famous road in the US is Deal’s Gap, also called tail of the dragon, in TN/NC. There is a very old tree where riders have been hanging broken parts from crashes on the road since the ‘60’s, called The Tree of Shame. Though I’ve ridden the road 100’s of times, I’ve happily never had the dishonor of hanging a part there.
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I've also driven/ridden the Dragon many times (it's not far from us) - motorcycle, sports car, sedan, truck, and station wagon loaded with canoes on top. Not for those prone to motion sickness. Fortunately I've never seen a crash happen or one that had just happened. (knock on cocobolo)

Coming back from running whitewater our friend dumped four canoes on the road by cornering too fast with the boats not properly secured on his station wagon! Fortunately good whitewater canoes and kayaks are incredibly tough. My 17' Blue Hole canoe, hull made from ABS, didn't even notice.

Another place I've seen various smashed motorcycle parts was scattered at the bottom of a scary high and steep hill climb when dirt biking. People apparently would attempt the climb, and not make it. I was a bit of a motorized dirt bike maniac for wild trails, jumps and climbs but I didn't even TRY that one! However I have separated other parts from bikes in other fun incidents! Zounds, the things you do when you're 20 and 30... It's a wonder I've made it to 75.

JKJ
 
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