Bill Grumbine
01-21-2006, 10:06 AM
Greetings all
This is my first finished piece of 2006. I had to sit on it (figuratively speaking of course!) for a few days before posting it, because it was part of a turning exchange going on in another place, and while most people did not know who their exchange partner was, mine was the organizer of the event, so he knew who his piece was coming from from day one. It has safely arrived, so now I can reveal it in those places where he might go.
This is a piece of Norway maple harvested from a cemetery down the road from me. It was one of a series of trees lining the edge of the road, and which had been cut down for firewood! :eek: I was able to salvage the stumps, which were heavily buttressed, and get some small pieces out of them. The were large in diameter, but had already been sawn into firewood length pieces.
<img src="http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/twosidedmaplepot01.jpg">
This piece was very heavily spalted, at least on one side. It required a very liberal application of Minwax Wood Hardener to make it hard enough to turn. The other side did not have any spalting to it, but I kept in in the piece anyway, just to provide a little contrast. :D You can see it below.
<img src="http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/twosidedmaplepot02.jpg">
The piece is approximately 5" high and 5" in diameter at the base, finished with Bush Oil and buffed with a Beall system. Wall thickness is a fat 1/8" getting just a bit fatter at the bottom to give it some stability in case the receipient would like to put some dried flowers in it.
Thanks for taking a look.
Bill
This is my first finished piece of 2006. I had to sit on it (figuratively speaking of course!) for a few days before posting it, because it was part of a turning exchange going on in another place, and while most people did not know who their exchange partner was, mine was the organizer of the event, so he knew who his piece was coming from from day one. It has safely arrived, so now I can reveal it in those places where he might go.
This is a piece of Norway maple harvested from a cemetery down the road from me. It was one of a series of trees lining the edge of the road, and which had been cut down for firewood! :eek: I was able to salvage the stumps, which were heavily buttressed, and get some small pieces out of them. The were large in diameter, but had already been sawn into firewood length pieces.
<img src="http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/twosidedmaplepot01.jpg">
This piece was very heavily spalted, at least on one side. It required a very liberal application of Minwax Wood Hardener to make it hard enough to turn. The other side did not have any spalting to it, but I kept in in the piece anyway, just to provide a little contrast. :D You can see it below.
<img src="http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/twosidedmaplepot02.jpg">
The piece is approximately 5" high and 5" in diameter at the base, finished with Bush Oil and buffed with a Beall system. Wall thickness is a fat 1/8" getting just a bit fatter at the bottom to give it some stability in case the receipient would like to put some dried flowers in it.
Thanks for taking a look.
Bill