Kathy Marshall
09-16-2011, 3:34 AM
After turning mesquite root for the last week or so, I was ready to play with something that turned a little easier.
So Tuesday night I cut a few blanks from a green ash log from the wood pile and turned the red bowl. Ash may be a little bit plain, but boy is it fun to turn green! Cut like butter and shot mile long curlies everywhere!
Wednesday night I turned the blue bowl and the little plate. I'm wanting to turns some plates and platters, but the ones I've turned so far have left a little to be desired, so I thought I'd do a small one (since the blank was too shallow for a bowl) and play with shape and form, rather than wasting a big blank. You'd think a platter shape would be pretty simple.
The dyed bowls were both done with Rit dye. The red bowl had a coat of black dye first, sanded back, then red added, it also has BLO over the dye (got a little messy when I oiled the inside and no choice but to even out what had dripped over the rim), it also has a couple coats of spray lacquer so far.
The blue bowl just has a coat of blue, BLO on the inside only, and a coat of lacquer.
The plate is just BLO with a coat of lacquer so far.
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Then today I got a call from the tree trimmers. They had just trimmed a bunch of eucalyptus from a big commercial site. So I stopped by on the way home and picked up a few logs (I could have filled about 20 truckloads from what they had in the pile lol). There was a few different varieties so I picked an assortment and this is what I started with tonight (talk about turning like butter!).
The log was 12" x 6" and I got 4 blanks from it. I turned one of the deeper blanks and one of the shallower blank.
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After the outside was roughed, I did a quick touch up on my Thompson bowl gouge then made a final light pass, and if it wasn't for the bevel marks, I could easily have started sanding at 320 grit (the lighter band at the rim is waste so I didn't clean up that part).
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Here they are with a coat of BLO. They are now in a ziplock bag to dry slowly. I think I got off lightly with just a couple hairline, 1/4" long cracks in the bigger bowl. If you've ever turned euc, then you know it can start cracking as soon as the air touches it!
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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
So Tuesday night I cut a few blanks from a green ash log from the wood pile and turned the red bowl. Ash may be a little bit plain, but boy is it fun to turn green! Cut like butter and shot mile long curlies everywhere!
Wednesday night I turned the blue bowl and the little plate. I'm wanting to turns some plates and platters, but the ones I've turned so far have left a little to be desired, so I thought I'd do a small one (since the blank was too shallow for a bowl) and play with shape and form, rather than wasting a big blank. You'd think a platter shape would be pretty simple.
The dyed bowls were both done with Rit dye. The red bowl had a coat of black dye first, sanded back, then red added, it also has BLO over the dye (got a little messy when I oiled the inside and no choice but to even out what had dripped over the rim), it also has a couple coats of spray lacquer so far.
The blue bowl just has a coat of blue, BLO on the inside only, and a coat of lacquer.
The plate is just BLO with a coat of lacquer so far.
207757207756207755
Then today I got a call from the tree trimmers. They had just trimmed a bunch of eucalyptus from a big commercial site. So I stopped by on the way home and picked up a few logs (I could have filled about 20 truckloads from what they had in the pile lol). There was a few different varieties so I picked an assortment and this is what I started with tonight (talk about turning like butter!).
The log was 12" x 6" and I got 4 blanks from it. I turned one of the deeper blanks and one of the shallower blank.
207759 207760 207761
After the outside was roughed, I did a quick touch up on my Thompson bowl gouge then made a final light pass, and if it wasn't for the bevel marks, I could easily have started sanding at 320 grit (the lighter band at the rim is waste so I didn't clean up that part).
207758
Here they are with a coat of BLO. They are now in a ziplock bag to dry slowly. I think I got off lightly with just a couple hairline, 1/4" long cracks in the bigger bowl. If you've ever turned euc, then you know it can start cracking as soon as the air touches it!
207762 207763
Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.