Kathy Marshall
11-22-2012, 1:57 AM
I picked up a load of good sized mesquite logs on Tuesday. When I got home I only had a few minutes of daylight left, so I quickly got out the chainsaw and cut a branch stub off one of the logs. The stub was about 9" diameter and about 5" long.
I mounted it up for another endgrain bowl :eek:. I thought I had that out of my system, but I seem to keep trying it out of different woods. Mesquite is definitely harder turning endgrain than the sissoo was, but once I got my technique down, I was getting very smooth cuts.
The wood was soaking wet, so it still needs to be sanded. I'll give it a few more days to let the surface dry a bit. This piece seems to have a bit of a red color :D, I hope it retains the color through the drying and finishing.
8" x 3 1/2".
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Today we got out of work a couple hours early, so I got home with plenty of time to start cutting some blanks and to get the logs sealed.
I have never seen mesquite this wet. The logs were too big for me to lift out of the trailer and I didn't want to cut them on the ground, so I carefully cut them in the trailer. One of the logs was long enough that I needed to cut it in half. Just as I was finishing the cut, the log pee'd all over the trailer :eek:. Water literally poured out of it!
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I only managed to get 2 of the logs cut into blanks before the blade started getting dull. Since I was also getting tired and my back had had enough, I decided I'd cut enough blanks for the day. It's too easy to make mistakes when you're tired and the chainsaw is not the machine I want to make a mistake with!
These are what I managed to get cut. The big one in the upper right will become a large bowl before too long!
246084
Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
I mounted it up for another endgrain bowl :eek:. I thought I had that out of my system, but I seem to keep trying it out of different woods. Mesquite is definitely harder turning endgrain than the sissoo was, but once I got my technique down, I was getting very smooth cuts.
The wood was soaking wet, so it still needs to be sanded. I'll give it a few more days to let the surface dry a bit. This piece seems to have a bit of a red color :D, I hope it retains the color through the drying and finishing.
8" x 3 1/2".
246085246086
Today we got out of work a couple hours early, so I got home with plenty of time to start cutting some blanks and to get the logs sealed.
I have never seen mesquite this wet. The logs were too big for me to lift out of the trailer and I didn't want to cut them on the ground, so I carefully cut them in the trailer. One of the logs was long enough that I needed to cut it in half. Just as I was finishing the cut, the log pee'd all over the trailer :eek:. Water literally poured out of it!
246082246083
I only managed to get 2 of the logs cut into blanks before the blade started getting dull. Since I was also getting tired and my back had had enough, I decided I'd cut enough blanks for the day. It's too easy to make mistakes when you're tired and the chainsaw is not the machine I want to make a mistake with!
These are what I managed to get cut. The big one in the upper right will become a large bowl before too long!
246084
Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.