James Combs
08-07-2010, 10:24 PM
I saw some wooden flowers (inside-out turnings) on here a few days ago which impressed me so that I wanted to try my own.
Here is my first attempt.
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A really nice looking piece Plum wood don't you think. Here I have finished turning the inside. I was humming right along and applying my finish and thinking how nice this was going to look and then it hit me. If you look closely you will see that there are no flats on the bottom part. The flats are needed to re-glue it for the outside turning. With out any care in the world (read without thinking or read numb-skull, your choice:rolleyes:) I had turned the entire piece round:eek:. I just stood there and looked at my beautiful piece of wood and thought and thought "there must be a way to fix this", and of course there was, a new piece of wood.:mad:
Well I had no more plum wood, at lest not in the size I wanted so here is my second attempt. As far as I am concerned it is an ugly piece of walnut. I had cut and trimmed the blank hoping to have lighter sap wood at the tips of the petals but once I applied finish everything turned pretty much the same color.:(
I turned it as a flower:
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But you know if you turn it upside down it looks more like Mickey Mouses broom from the Sorcerer's Apprentice. (the original one:rolleyes:)
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I am going to try it one more time (eventually) only this time I am going to use cedar.
Here is my first attempt.
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A really nice looking piece Plum wood don't you think. Here I have finished turning the inside. I was humming right along and applying my finish and thinking how nice this was going to look and then it hit me. If you look closely you will see that there are no flats on the bottom part. The flats are needed to re-glue it for the outside turning. With out any care in the world (read without thinking or read numb-skull, your choice:rolleyes:) I had turned the entire piece round:eek:. I just stood there and looked at my beautiful piece of wood and thought and thought "there must be a way to fix this", and of course there was, a new piece of wood.:mad:
Well I had no more plum wood, at lest not in the size I wanted so here is my second attempt. As far as I am concerned it is an ugly piece of walnut. I had cut and trimmed the blank hoping to have lighter sap wood at the tips of the petals but once I applied finish everything turned pretty much the same color.:(
I turned it as a flower:
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But you know if you turn it upside down it looks more like Mickey Mouses broom from the Sorcerer's Apprentice. (the original one:rolleyes:)
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I am going to try it one more time (eventually) only this time I am going to use cedar.