Yellowheart

[Mark Pruitt]

Just placed an order, and was well below the threshold of the next tier for shipping expense, so I added a few Yellowheart blanks. Anybody have some yellowheart pieces you'd like to share? Any observations about ease (or difficulty) for turning?

[Andy Hoyt]

Mark - I've used Yellowheart scraps left over from (ugh) flatwork projects as part of glue-ups for both centerwork (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=26070) and facework (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=45321) turnings. Turns nice and finishes well too.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Just recently I turned some pens from yellowheart. Worked easily and well.

[John Terefenko]

I use Yellowheart all the time in my scroll saw work and recently used it on some birdhouse ornaments and it works very easily and finishes easily too. The thing about it also the color will remain no matter what.

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[Christopher Hunter]

This is a small 6" by 2"
I had a lot of fun with it when I first started and it ended up in a display case....
--Chris

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[Bill Turpin]

My wife's favorite wood to turn is YH. She learned the hard way that it will split if overheated. She keeps it in the refrigerator for overnight before turning. She also lets it cool between each sandpaper grit. It sure turns pretty. :)

Bill in WNC mountains

[Jim King]

Yellowheart is one of the easier tropicals to work with. Turns well, stable and dries easily. This bowl on a stand was turned from one peice and did not move. It also holds its color and darkens very little over time. Yellowheart is to date the best yellow wood we have available here.

[Mark Pruitt]

Jim, that's a really nice piece. How big is it?

[Jim King]

Mark: That peice was about 5 inches high by 10 in dia. if I remember right.

[Mark Pruitt]

I guess the more important question I should ask is the way it was turned. I can imagine a couple of ways, and they may both be inferior to some other way. (1) One is to attach the top to a faceplate and turn the entire piece in that orientation, except of course the inside of the bowl itself. Then reverse it, mount the foot in a large set of jaws and scoop out the inside of the bowl. (2) Another way would be to start with the foot CA'd to a sacrificial block, scoop out the inside, turn the outside profile working from the outermost area toward the axis (although that would create tearout issues!):eek: , reverse mount to either a vacuum chuck or friction chuck and remove the sacrificial tenon while using a tailstock for support.

How close did I get?

[Jim King]

Mark: One of the nice things about living in the jungle is that we have a lot of wood and dont worry about making a lot of shavings out of what up there ends up to be an expensive block of wood. To us exotics are all we have and even as nice as they are become common and we keep looking for new species. It occured with to me your post that I may have ignored a wood that people would like up there due to its color.

As for how I turn a peice like shown above I simply screw a thick blank on the face plate , hollow the bowl and work my way down to the base and when done part it off.

[Adam Howard]

Yep, Yellowheart is great.

Wear a dust mask or respirator though. It can smell flowery and makes me sneeze if I'm not well protected. Here's a giant platter with some black dye.


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