Coring Siberian ELM - Pic Heavy

[Dale Bright]

I have not posted in a while. I have been busy but did stop in to read some posts most everyday. My big lathe was down for about 3 weeks and I just is it repaired early this past week. A friend of mine got a very large Siberian Elm log with a lot of burl. I helped him cut it up and here is a 17 inch bowl blank that I cored yesterday. I did a series of shots showing most of the sequence. It will take 2 posts for all of the photos.

Dale

[Dale Bright]

Here are the rest of the Siberian Elm pics.

Dale

[Faust M. Ruggiero]

Dale,
That makes the hefty price tag of the Oneway coring system worth every penny. That was quite a piece of wood. I'll bet you can't wait for the cores to dry.
faust

[David E Keller]

Beautiful wood! Looking forward to seeing the finished set!

[Roger Chandler]

Beautiful burl wood........nice that you could save all that with coring........good stewardship of an exceptional piece of highly figured wood...........way to go Dale!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful wood and should make a nice set when finished.

[charlie knighton]

thanks for sharing, i have always been envious of coring

[Jeff Nicol]

Dale, They are correct about that chunk of Siberian elm, it is a beauty. I love the bunch of eyes it has in it, one of the things I like about Siberian elm.

Nice coring job, I have a big cherry burl piece that I need to get cored one of these days, maybe you have inspired me!

Jeff

[Harry Robinette]

Dale
Why the change up on coring sys.from McNaughton to Oneway for the last core.
Real nice job on the work and the wood is beautiful.

[Norm Zax]

Saved a lot of bowls on that great wood! BTW, how does one grab hold of the inner bowls to complete when dry - sunken hole for inside clamping or glueing on a sacrificial tenon - whats your preference?

[Dale Bright]

Dale
Why the change up on coring sys.from McNaughton to Oneway for the last core.
Real nice job on the work and the wood is beautiful.

Harry,

I changed to the Oneway coring system on the last bowl, because the McNaughton standard set was not quite big enough. The largest bowl is 15 inches in diameter and 7 inches deep. The largest blade for the McNaughton would have been big enough if the bowl had only been about 5 inches deep. I have the full Standard McNaughton set but for the Oneway system, I only have the 2 largest blades, so I started with the McNaughton and could have finished with it except for the size of the last bowl.

Dale

[Dale Bright]

Saved a lot of bowls on that great wood! BTW, how does one grab hold of the inner bowls to complete when dry - sunken hole for inside clamping or glueing on a sacrificial tenon - whats your preference?

Norm,

When I return these bowls to the lathe, I will simply jam them against a chuck with the tail stock point in the center of the bottom, turn a tenon and reverse them into the chuck. There is plenty of thickness in the bowl bottoms for the tenon.

I have also roughed out 2 hollow forms and another 14 inch bowl from this log. The other 14 inch bowl was cored to give me a 9 inch side grain hollow form blank. I have enough of the log left to make 3 more hollow forms that will be about 7 - 8 iinches in diameter by about 6 inches deep and all side grain.

Dale

[Russell Eaton]

That is some very nice wood. It make ya feel good to not sweep it all up and throw it away. Look forward to seeing some finished pics.

[Baxter Smith]

Nice job Dale. That is some very pretty wood and a great time to have a coring system!