What’s on your lathe?

[Pat Wisniewski]

A tumbler / pencil holder (5” x 2 3/4”) from a scrap piece of walnut that has a few cracks and voids - good for practicing multiaxis.

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[John K Jordan]

My first attempt at a Frank Penta style platter. 12” and made from an oak desk my parents left in the house when we bought it ... Now I just need some good platter wood to try again!

Fantastic! Frank is one of my favoritest people. Incredibly creative - some of his other multi- and off-axis ideas are amazing.

If anyone else want's to try one with the multi-axis base I posted his doc somewhere on this forum, instructions, dimensions.

@Thomas Wilson
Since you would like to continue with another Penta Platter, stop by Tennessee and I might just have a piece of wood for you.
It'd be a long walk but I might just have a piece of Mahogany, Sapele, or Walnut or something in a size good for a platter!
(Frank is the one who got me turning Sapele)

BTW, if you haven't tried it, Sapele is wonderful - cuts cleanly, sands nicely, heavy, often has a nice chatoyancy with an "danish" oil finish. Since my first Penta multi-axis I've used Sapele for more platters. I like to use 8/4 planks to make them sit up off the table a bit. The larger one is a bit under 20" dia, the capacity of my lathe over the bed. (These are "normal" platters, NOT multi axis)

(Wanrning: once you turn Sapele you can't go back!)



For those who haven't hung around Frank, he's a gluing up maniac! You should see some of what he displayed in his shop. And he kept many hundreds of thin cut-and-sanded pieces in lots of colors in big drawers, many in sets cut ready for glueup.
Frank and a page from one of his instructional documents:



Hey, are you the Thomas Wilson woodturner who built the amazing timber frame shop on Norris lake?

JKJ

 

[John K Jordan]

A tumbler / pencil holder (5” x 2 3/4”) from a scrap piece of walnut that has a few cracks and voids - good for practicing multiaxis.

Very nice! In the picture on the lathe it looks kinda like it's 4 axes, the other 3. ???

If you want I'll save you a piece of walnut with no cracks. (or cherry, or locust, osage orange, maple, guatambu, cocobolo...)

This is a 3-axis one that the late Brian Horais gave me when he visited my shop to give me a twisted lesson. (I don't think it would make a good tumbler - I already have a hard enough time not dribbling down my shirt!) I've been meaning to make a pencil holder with the idea.



JKJ

 

[Craig Duncan]

Did this bowl today.
Nothing fancy.
I'd cast it a few weeks ago and wanted it done

Coated it with resin to make it shiny.
I'll cut the glue block off tomorrow and use Odie's brake spoon trick again as it worked so good last time.

The pine cones are from the White pines that litter our property.
The spalted wood is more from the dead tree I got the lamp wood from.

I want to try turning one of those burls I got next.
I've never turned one before.

Craig

 

[Bob Hall]

Did this bowl today.
Nothing fancy.
I'd cast it a few weeks ago and wanted it done

Coated it with resin to make it shiny.
I'll cut the glue block off tomorrow and use Odie's brake spoon trick again as it worked so good last time.

The pine cones are from the White pines that litter our property.
The spalted wood is more from the dead tree I got the lamp wood from.

I want to try turning one of those burls I got next.
I've never turned one before.

Craig

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Beautiful work.

 

[Thomas Wilson]

Fantastic! Frank is one of my favoritest people. Incredibly creative - some of his other multi- and off-axis ideas are amazing.

If anyone else want's to try one with the multi-axis base I posted his doc somewhere on this forum, instructions, dimensions.

@Thomas Wilson
Since you would like to continue with another Penta Platter, stop by Tennessee and I might just have a piece of wood for you.
It'd be a long walk but I might just have a piece of Mahogany, Sapele, or Walnut or something in a size good for a platter!
(Frank is the one who got me turning Sapele)

BTW, if you haven't tried it, Sapele is wonderful - cuts cleanly, sands nicely, heavy, often has a nice chatoyancy with an "danish" oil finish. Since my first Penta multi-axis I've used Sapele for more platters. I like to use 8/4 planks to make them sit up off the table a bit. The larger one is a bit under 20" dia, the capacity of my lathe over the bed. (These are "normal" platters, NOT multi axis)

(Wanrning: once you turn Sapele you can't go back!)

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For those who haven't hung around Frank, he's a gluing up maniac! You should see some of what he displayed in his shop. And he kept many hundreds of thin cut-and-sanded pieces in lots of colors in big drawers, many in sets cut ready for glueup.
Frank and a page from one of his instructional documents:

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Hey, are you the Thomas Wilson woodturner who built the amazing timber frame shop on Norris lake?

JKJ

Thanks John - I’ve turned sapele spindles into tops and ornaments, but have never had anything larger than 2” in diameter. It is beautiful and turns nicely.

Funny enough, my wife just said to me this morning that there are flights out of Provo to Knoxville (her parents live in Greeneville, TN) so we may be heading your way in a couple months if our autistic son is able to make the trip. If so, I’ll shoot you a message. I’d love to see your setup! Maybe I could bring you some western wood - I’m confident you want none of my vast cottonwood stores but have you ever turned manzanita? I had a couple pieces with extensive cracking but it is crazy beautiful. Here is what I made from one piece next to the remaining unused log, finished with danish oil:


Must be a different Tom Wilson on Norris lake. I struggle to make anything adequate, let alone amazing!

Tom

Edited to correct mesquite to manzanita

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Turned round on the center axis, and then three points at 120 degrees apart, so is that technically three or four axes?

Very nice! In the picture on the lathe it looks kinda like it's 4 axes, the other 3. ???
JKJ

 

[John K Jordan]

but have you ever turned mesquite?

Oh, mesquite is nice! Hard to find around here - a friend gave me a piece he brought back from a trip.

Turned round on the center axis, and then three points at 120 degrees apart, so is that technically three or four axes?

Ha! I guess three plus the center could be called 4 axes! Never thought of it that way.

 

[Bob Hall]

A tumbler / pencil holder (5” x 2 3/4”) from a scrap piece of walnut that has a few cracks and voids - good for practicing multiaxis.

Dropbox

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That would make a beautiful bud vase for my wife. Thank you for the idea.

Bob

 

[Sam Fleisher]

Honey locust

There's only so much to do with a 2 inch thick board.

On to the other lathe where the indexing wheel is set up for spokes.

And an oops with the laser pecker but I didn't want to make the mortise any deeper by trying again. Oh well, more practice.

 

[Webb Willmott]

Just playing with a piece in the burn box. The knot’s core had popped out and I thought I would try something different. I tried some walnut filler but it looked horrible so I colored it with a black Sharpie and with a little light sanding, I was pleased with the result.

 

[Thomas Wilson]

Oh, mesquite is nice! Hard to find around here - a friend gave me a piece he brought back from a trip.


Ha! I guess three plus the center could be called 4 axes! Never thought of it that way.

Oops, manzanita, not mesquite.