Joe Fisher
05-06-2006, 9:19 PM
So a friend tells me, "Hey Joe, I drove by a place where it looked like people just dump logs. It had lots of bumpy wood; I know you like that."
And so I checked it out, and lo and behold, about a 50' long dumping ground of logs! As I got there, some guy was unloading his truck, so I loaded mine up. I'll be checking back there often, I can tell you that ;)
Anyway, I got 3 kinds of wood. First is this mystery wood (it's been suggested over on WoodNet that it's Silver Maple):
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/other_unknown.jpg
I made this bowl from it (sorry for the crappy pix - the finish isn't even dry on it, but I wanted to throw some pix up). About 7" across, about 1/4" thick:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/mystery_bowl1.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/mystery_bowl2.jpg
Second is this giant log of something:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/flaky_unknown.jpg
Looks very similar to the first one, but has flaky bark.
Then there were a bunch of logs that I thought were red oak. So I put a few aside to play with, and started splitting the rest up for firewood. After splitting a few logs without paying much attention to what I was doing, I realized to my horror that it was Osage Orange!!! The wood is a GORGEOUS orange inside. I can't wait to get turnin' with it. I went back today, but the rest was all gone :(
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/osage.jpg
So any guesses on the other two woods are welcome. I'll post up pix of the bowl after the Danish oil dries and I get it Beall buffed.
-Joe
And so I checked it out, and lo and behold, about a 50' long dumping ground of logs! As I got there, some guy was unloading his truck, so I loaded mine up. I'll be checking back there often, I can tell you that ;)
Anyway, I got 3 kinds of wood. First is this mystery wood (it's been suggested over on WoodNet that it's Silver Maple):
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/other_unknown.jpg
I made this bowl from it (sorry for the crappy pix - the finish isn't even dry on it, but I wanted to throw some pix up). About 7" across, about 1/4" thick:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/mystery_bowl1.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/mystery_bowl2.jpg
Second is this giant log of something:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/flaky_unknown.jpg
Looks very similar to the first one, but has flaky bark.
Then there were a bunch of logs that I thought were red oak. So I put a few aside to play with, and started splitting the rest up for firewood. After splitting a few logs without paying much attention to what I was doing, I realized to my horror that it was Osage Orange!!! The wood is a GORGEOUS orange inside. I can't wait to get turnin' with it. I went back today, but the rest was all gone :(
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b162/nostalgia75/Turning/osage.jpg
So any guesses on the other two woods are welcome. I'll post up pix of the bowl after the Danish oil dries and I get it Beall buffed.
-Joe