A Little Redwood

[Adam Howard]

First time I ever turned redwood. Kind of soft, but I still like it.

15" x 3" platter or shallow bowl. Light figure. BLO and POLY finish, only one coat so far.

Sorry that second picture's so big.... don't know why.... The other one sized okay.


http://www.fineamericancraft.com/1336.jpg
http://www.fineamericancraft.com/1336b.jpg

[Bernie Weishapl]

Adam the shallow bowl looks awesome. That is some nice work.

[Andy Hoyt]

Adam - The bigger the picture the better. Especially when it has such wonderful figure as this one does. I like it. A lot.

[Keith Burns]

Very nice piece:) :) Great form and a great looking piece of wood:)

[Travis Stinson]

SWEET!:D
That curl is alive!

[Jim Ketron]

Nice one Adam!
Love the curl!

[Ernie Nyvall]

Another fine bowl/platter Adam. Right form for that curl.

Ernie

[Mike Forsman]

Very nice bowl.

[Michael Stafford]

Excellent!!! The form you chose displays the awesome curl to perfection. Very well done!:D

[Chris Barton]

Oooohhh! Very nice figure and curl in this piece.

[Curt Fuller]

Beautiful! Just curious, is that some redwood that was meant to be turned or is it some redwood that came from a board like you could buy at Home Depot or something?

[John Hart]

Awesome wood Adam! Like Travis said....It looks alive. You fit the form to the wood nicely. Nice piece! :)

[Tony Sizemore]

Great job. I love red wood. I have question for ya. did it turn well? I have only turn very small chunks of for bird house and found it to be soft and it come apart easy. Now that could just be the stuff I was working with. What did you think?

[Mark Cothren]

What a beautiful piece of wood! That is SOME curl!

Thanks for the pictures!

[Rich Stewart]

looks beautiful! Great job. I am interested in what the others asked also concerning hardness and turnability. I like the big picture also.

[Adam Howard]

The redwood turned nice, but it tended to tear out just a bit since it was so soft, especially when it was only partially dry.

Once dry, the finish turning went great with careful technique.

I do think it's awfully soft, and I don't think it would stand up to regular daily use, so I guess it's just decorative.

Turning a small piece (a confetti lamp) out of this stuff, I made too much heat sanding at a high rpm, and it developed cracks. I was much more careful with the large blank, and it went fine.

This was purchased on Ebay for about $25. I've got another piece that makes the figure in this one look BORING!!!! Wanted to do a testrun before tackling the pretty wood.

Thanks for all the nice comments.

[Mike Ramsey]

Adam, Really awesome job on that beautiful wood. Like to try some
Redwood one of these days if I can find some.