Tim Rinehart
07-07-2010, 8:43 PM
I had a chance to visit with Bob Wolfe while I'm down in the Florida Panhandle visiting relatives.
Contacted Bob ahead of time and both of us were already talking about good wood trades, local stuff from respective areas. I had a sampling of some elm, walnut, maple and poplar from local trees I have been turning wood.
Good gosh, he had a wheelbarrow full to offer up for me to put to good use on my PM. Bob provided me with some serious nice size pieces of magnolia, and a piece of ambrosia maple, along with some cypress, mulberry, mimosa and cherry...dang...I thought Florida just had palms!! ;)
Bob has a very nicely constructed articulated hollowing tool that I got to test drive on his lathe, and we started a piece of mystery wood form, believe it's likely magnolia. We brought it back and I tried it on my lathe as well (he only lives about 10 minutes from my brother-in-law) and worked around with some different techniques.
Looking forward to being able to repeat this next time I come down, which is several times a year.
Bob will finish and post a pic of this piece in the lathe when completed.
(Bob's the guy on the left, standing on a platform ... :rolleyes:)
Contacted Bob ahead of time and both of us were already talking about good wood trades, local stuff from respective areas. I had a sampling of some elm, walnut, maple and poplar from local trees I have been turning wood.
Good gosh, he had a wheelbarrow full to offer up for me to put to good use on my PM. Bob provided me with some serious nice size pieces of magnolia, and a piece of ambrosia maple, along with some cypress, mulberry, mimosa and cherry...dang...I thought Florida just had palms!! ;)
Bob has a very nicely constructed articulated hollowing tool that I got to test drive on his lathe, and we started a piece of mystery wood form, believe it's likely magnolia. We brought it back and I tried it on my lathe as well (he only lives about 10 minutes from my brother-in-law) and worked around with some different techniques.
Looking forward to being able to repeat this next time I come down, which is several times a year.
Bob will finish and post a pic of this piece in the lathe when completed.
(Bob's the guy on the left, standing on a platform ... :rolleyes:)