Robert McGowen
06-17-2008, 9:38 PM
I have been getting ready for some down time starting next week when I have knee surgery. YEAH! :( I have sold some of my turning supply rather than having it sit there for the next few months, but I did get a couple of things turned, albeit on one leg for part of the time. :o
A mesquite bowl turned from a crotch piece of wood. It is 10.25" x 2.25" and finished with Danish Oil. It has the remnants of both limbs forming the crotch with some bark in between, sap wood on both sides, and a long dead limb right in the middle of the bowl. It looks kind of "westerny" in person. (Yes, I made up that word.)
The second piece is a bowl 10.75" x 4.25" and finished with Danish Oil. The tracks in the side are from mesquite borers. I turned it so that the holes do not go all the way through, but are just for decoration on the outside. I guess that makes it really a bowl and not art. :) The borer holes are almost always just in the sap wood, so you can turn them out if you want to, but you end up with a smaller bowl and not much sap wood.
Both pieces were turned from green wood from start to finish in one sitting. Mesquite is very easy to turn when green and it doesn't seem like it moves at all.
A mesquite bowl turned from a crotch piece of wood. It is 10.25" x 2.25" and finished with Danish Oil. It has the remnants of both limbs forming the crotch with some bark in between, sap wood on both sides, and a long dead limb right in the middle of the bowl. It looks kind of "westerny" in person. (Yes, I made up that word.)
The second piece is a bowl 10.75" x 4.25" and finished with Danish Oil. The tracks in the side are from mesquite borers. I turned it so that the holes do not go all the way through, but are just for decoration on the outside. I guess that makes it really a bowl and not art. :) The borer holes are almost always just in the sap wood, so you can turn them out if you want to, but you end up with a smaller bowl and not much sap wood.
Both pieces were turned from green wood from start to finish in one sitting. Mesquite is very easy to turn when green and it doesn't seem like it moves at all.