Ryan Baker
05-19-2009, 12:07 AM
A friend of mine invited me out to his place this weekend to cut up some turning blanks. So I packed up my three-day-old Stihl 361 (gloat!:D) and headed out. Here's what I came home with:D:
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This is only half of what we cut up (he's got the other half). There's a lot of ash, elm, sassafrass, norfolk pine, black walnut, cherry, and spalted ash. A bunch of these logs were over 22" in diameter. I have a lot of coring to do.
I had a little time last night, so I made a winged bowl out of a piece of elm crotch wood (man this stuff dulls cutters fast). It has an inclusion on the bottom that makes it impossible to hold in a chuck, and it limited the thickness (thinness?) of the bowl -- so the bowl is thicker than I would otherwise leave it, but I made the wings consistent with the bowl thickness. It's about 5/16" thick, though it looks like more in the pictures. Forgive my "backdrop" -- just had time for a quick snap. The finish is Watco oil.
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This is only half of what we cut up (he's got the other half). There's a lot of ash, elm, sassafrass, norfolk pine, black walnut, cherry, and spalted ash. A bunch of these logs were over 22" in diameter. I have a lot of coring to do.
I had a little time last night, so I made a winged bowl out of a piece of elm crotch wood (man this stuff dulls cutters fast). It has an inclusion on the bottom that makes it impossible to hold in a chuck, and it limited the thickness (thinness?) of the bowl -- so the bowl is thicker than I would otherwise leave it, but I made the wings consistent with the bowl thickness. It's about 5/16" thick, though it looks like more in the pictures. Forgive my "backdrop" -- just had time for a quick snap. The finish is Watco oil.
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