The SAGA continues!

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

Picture #6 - I took a chance and cut it up. Looks like one side grained piece about 7-7 1/2" and an end grain thing 3-1/2 X 4" (What am I saying......... end grain............... There ain't no Grain left in this thing.)

The biggest piece is mounted in Picture #7. My lathe was crying "What did I do to deserve this kind of treatment?" I had to agree, but a gift!?!?! MUST be turned!

Picture #8- If I remember correctly............... Andy said something about this being "SPALTED HICKORY"................. Looks more like Rotten limburger cheese. Talk about TEAROUT. Good thing I had my faceshield on. Think of turning Green wood where the Water feels and sounds like Grains of SAND hitting you. The picture really doesn't do the punkiness justice!

Picture #9....................... HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM at least there seems to be some interesting stuff going on here.

Picture #10 - Boy am I going to have to do SOMETHING HERE! .................................................. Better stabilize it or it's going to GET ME!

Oh OH , That's ten. Got to go to another post!

Be Right back!

Bruce;)

OOPS, forgot to add Pictures........... Here they are.

[Chris Barton]

That's what I call taking it to the limit. Go Bruce!:D

[Mark Rios]

HOLY PUKING PACHEEBIES.......................................

I'll say it again....You turning folks are amazing. Way to go Bruce. What will it be, what will it be?

[Henry C. Gernhardt, III]

Keep it up, Bruce, it looks like you've something special going there!

[Dale Overman]

Good looking start. It is fun to start with something that looks like a piece of cork and the more you work the more you are sure it is cork but finally you end up with a nice piece. good looking start, looking forward to finished product.

[Don Baer]

Bruce,
Your takiing that little Rikon to the limit. Good job.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

GO Bruce! Can't wait to see the final product!

[Reed Gray]

Bruce,
I am kind of curious as to why you didn't trim up the blank more (chain saw and/or bandsaw) before you started turning. It saves a lot work, and gets you to long shavings faster. I guess that translates to more time turning, and less time roughing.
robo hippy

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

I Agree, in most cases with what you said, Reed, BUT there ARE NO SHAVINGS with this thing! It roughed rather quickly, as it tore off chunks of grain quite well.

Bruce

[Keith Burns]

Bruce, you got it looking good ! Looking forward to seeing the finished product:) :)

[Paul Engle]

I have a piece of concrete that looks like that ......poor lathe...

[Jason Christenson]

When you put a blank like that on the lathe without "pre-rounding" it in any way, what do you use to rough turn it? Bowl gouge? Roughing gouge?

[Richard Jones]

Bruce,

I admire your tenacity, for sure.

One thing I don't like about my Rikon is that the banjo is too short to take advantage of a piece that is max for the swing. I sort of have to attack the edge trimming details from both sides. Not real happy about that, but still a nice lathe.

The pennies are adding up for the 1642, we'll see what the next couple of months brings..........

Rich in VA