Radek Kowalski
09-16-2009, 1:47 PM
About August of last year I became fasinated with woodturning. I soon after picked up a lathe and some of the things I needed. On the way home with the lathe in the back of the car I saw someone in the neighboorhood had cut down a birch tree. Not knowing what I know today I took about 10 pieces, one with a 14" diameter and the rest was about 6". I quickly sealed the ends and put them in my garage. That was in october.
Couple months ago I saw that the birch had started to mold up real bad. I was super happy about that because I could not wait to see what the birch would look like. Here are a couple pictures of what became of half of that big log I brought home.
http://www.radeksfishroom.com/images/shop/sbirchbowl.jpg
http://www.radeksfishroom.com/images/shop/sbirchbowlbottom.jpg
http://www.radeksfishroom.com/images/shop/sbirchbowlknot.jpg
It is about 9.5"x3.5" tall with 1/8" thickness all around.
Turning has been an experience for me. For the first couple weeks I could not get the chuck to hold stuff properly. Then my drill chuck decided to fly a couple times. Then winter came, So I probably have only been turning for about 6 months.
Please let me know what you think. Thanks for looking.
Couple months ago I saw that the birch had started to mold up real bad. I was super happy about that because I could not wait to see what the birch would look like. Here are a couple pictures of what became of half of that big log I brought home.
http://www.radeksfishroom.com/images/shop/sbirchbowl.jpg
http://www.radeksfishroom.com/images/shop/sbirchbowlbottom.jpg
http://www.radeksfishroom.com/images/shop/sbirchbowlknot.jpg
It is about 9.5"x3.5" tall with 1/8" thickness all around.
Turning has been an experience for me. For the first couple weeks I could not get the chuck to hold stuff properly. Then my drill chuck decided to fly a couple times. Then winter came, So I probably have only been turning for about 6 months.
Please let me know what you think. Thanks for looking.