Bill Neff
11-04-2009, 10:27 PM
I've been lurking & reading for a few months so I'm finally diving in with a bowl that was a love/hate project. It started off as a dryed piece of elm from my firewood pile that had been laying around for at least 2 years.
As I roughed it all sorts of cool stuff was appearing stains in the wood, a void, herringbone looking movement in the grain, a depression with worm diggins (side-d lower right)there are a couple of checks that looks like it was stained with CA glue (but no glue was used at all). I got it turned to a 3/8" thickness and then had to stop for a couple of days because of work & family.
There was quite of tearout because of the was getting a little punky in spots. When I came back to sand it, it must have warped a little because it now had a slight wobble even though it hadn't been moved from the chuck or the lathe. As a result one spot on the wall is now 1/8" thick & the rest is about 1/4".
The size is 3 1/4" tall by 6 1/4" wide.
Any comments, suggestions, critiques are welcome.
Bill
(I have no clue how far I am from Steve S. but I am 351 miles east of Bernie W.)
As I roughed it all sorts of cool stuff was appearing stains in the wood, a void, herringbone looking movement in the grain, a depression with worm diggins (side-d lower right)there are a couple of checks that looks like it was stained with CA glue (but no glue was used at all). I got it turned to a 3/8" thickness and then had to stop for a couple of days because of work & family.
There was quite of tearout because of the was getting a little punky in spots. When I came back to sand it, it must have warped a little because it now had a slight wobble even though it hadn't been moved from the chuck or the lathe. As a result one spot on the wall is now 1/8" thick & the rest is about 1/4".
The size is 3 1/4" tall by 6 1/4" wide.
Any comments, suggestions, critiques are welcome.
Bill
(I have no clue how far I am from Steve S. but I am 351 miles east of Bernie W.)