Clint Baxter
12-02-2011, 12:03 PM
Been a long year to this point. Haven't been able to do much turning since we started fighting the high water. The flood evacuation in the end of May completely shut me down until I was finally able to get the lathe back up around the middle of October. Since then I get a little bit of turning time in when I'm not working on trying to rebuild the house, or the shop, or actually do a little work to try to bring in some money.
I was able to finish his small NE bowl. Figured it might be good for a Christmas gift, but the wife has claimed it for her own, so it must not be too bad. Ash, about 5-1/2" in the long dimension and 4" tall. Ended up leaving a small foot on it because I may have ended up with a funnel otherwise. Let me know what you think.
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Was able to recover a few logs from the flood. They were inside the shop but I ended up with a fair amount of checking on them. Did the Ash bowl above. the center NE roughout and the two box elder roughouts.
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The other three roughouts came from a score of Ash from a friend who just built a new home, (courtesy of the flood), and had two of them removed from his property. It had been cut down for a while before I was able to get my hands on it, but only lost a couple inches off the ends to checking. Have most of it cut up for bowl blanks except for the base of the tree and one other longer piece. I may try turning a few bowls to completion from the green wood. How well does ash behave when turned such? Is it likely to move much if I get it down to 1/4" thickness, or less, and soak it with Antique Oil right away? Any suggestions on how to treat it would be much appreciated.
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Finally a thanks to all of you here on the Creek that have kept my turning fix occupied. I've, at least, been able to view your creations, questions, and gloats and they've helped me through my turning drought.
BTW, We've rebuilt the house to where we're able to live here. The only question is for how long. They plan on doing river rechanneling and they will have to take the house and shop when they do so. So we're here on borrowed time. May be several years before we have to move out, but it's not encouraging to know that we've got to pick it up and move it now that we're getting it all back together.
Take care, Clint
I was able to finish his small NE bowl. Figured it might be good for a Christmas gift, but the wife has claimed it for her own, so it must not be too bad. Ash, about 5-1/2" in the long dimension and 4" tall. Ended up leaving a small foot on it because I may have ended up with a funnel otherwise. Let me know what you think.
214473214474
Was able to recover a few logs from the flood. They were inside the shop but I ended up with a fair amount of checking on them. Did the Ash bowl above. the center NE roughout and the two box elder roughouts.
214475
The other three roughouts came from a score of Ash from a friend who just built a new home, (courtesy of the flood), and had two of them removed from his property. It had been cut down for a while before I was able to get my hands on it, but only lost a couple inches off the ends to checking. Have most of it cut up for bowl blanks except for the base of the tree and one other longer piece. I may try turning a few bowls to completion from the green wood. How well does ash behave when turned such? Is it likely to move much if I get it down to 1/4" thickness, or less, and soak it with Antique Oil right away? Any suggestions on how to treat it would be much appreciated.
214476
Finally a thanks to all of you here on the Creek that have kept my turning fix occupied. I've, at least, been able to view your creations, questions, and gloats and they've helped me through my turning drought.
BTW, We've rebuilt the house to where we're able to live here. The only question is for how long. They plan on doing river rechanneling and they will have to take the house and shop when they do so. So we're here on borrowed time. May be several years before we have to move out, but it's not encouraging to know that we've got to pick it up and move it now that we're getting it all back together.
Take care, Clint