Glen Smith
08-11-2003, 11:17 AM
I got a Jet Mini lathe last year and have been tinkering around with it for a while. I did some turning in high school, but this is the first bowl I have completed with the mini. I got lots of hints reading this board and the old Badger Pond.
The wood is Sweetgum, it came from a neighbors yard, I got three logs that I let sit too long. Then cut into bowl blanks and put soem old poly on the ends - then I let them sit too long. I roughed out this bowl and left it to dry. By the time I got to rough out the next blank, it was too late, they were punky and rotten.
I had always intended to make something for the family that gave me the wood - unfourtunatly, they moved back to California. Two days before they left I realized that this blank was the only possible thing to give them, so I finished it. It will be sent to them to remember the house they lived in for 4 or 5 years. I like the way it came out.
Finish is mineral oil and beeswax.
Please feel free to cirtique honestly, the nieghbors who have seen it have all stroked my ego - I'm looking to improve.
The small collet in the photos is 1 3/8" long to get an idea of size.
Glen Smith
PS, I hope the pictures work, this is my first time posting pics!
The wood is Sweetgum, it came from a neighbors yard, I got three logs that I let sit too long. Then cut into bowl blanks and put soem old poly on the ends - then I let them sit too long. I roughed out this bowl and left it to dry. By the time I got to rough out the next blank, it was too late, they were punky and rotten.
I had always intended to make something for the family that gave me the wood - unfourtunatly, they moved back to California. Two days before they left I realized that this blank was the only possible thing to give them, so I finished it. It will be sent to them to remember the house they lived in for 4 or 5 years. I like the way it came out.
Finish is mineral oil and beeswax.
Please feel free to cirtique honestly, the nieghbors who have seen it have all stroked my ego - I'm looking to improve.
The small collet in the photos is 1 3/8" long to get an idea of size.
Glen Smith
PS, I hope the pictures work, this is my first time posting pics!