Alan Trout
06-30-2008, 7:33 PM
This is my first bowl and pretty much my first not tool turning. I did make a couple of lathe tool handles and a couple of pens at our local wood craft but that is about it for me. I just got my lathe last week but have not had much time to use it.
I got home late yesterday afternoon and wanted to turn something and did not have anything in the garage. I started digging around in the yard and found a dry old mesquite limb laying in the yard that a friend dropped off for the BBQ. I took it to my band saw and cut up what I thought would be a good blank.
This is what I cam up with. It was pretty knotty and checked. I roughed it out last night and after work went a got some thin CA and soak it real good so it would not fly apart. It is 5 3/4 inches wide at the top by 2 inches high and about 2 1/4 inches at the bottom. I finished it with a watco applied with 2000 git color wet or dry sand paper and let it dry for a while and then burnished in with a rag.
All and all I am pretty happy with it for my first official turning. Please let me know what ya'll think.
Sorry that the pics are not better I still have a bit to work on with my photo skills.
Thanks,
Alan
I got home late yesterday afternoon and wanted to turn something and did not have anything in the garage. I started digging around in the yard and found a dry old mesquite limb laying in the yard that a friend dropped off for the BBQ. I took it to my band saw and cut up what I thought would be a good blank.
This is what I cam up with. It was pretty knotty and checked. I roughed it out last night and after work went a got some thin CA and soak it real good so it would not fly apart. It is 5 3/4 inches wide at the top by 2 inches high and about 2 1/4 inches at the bottom. I finished it with a watco applied with 2000 git color wet or dry sand paper and let it dry for a while and then burnished in with a rag.
All and all I am pretty happy with it for my first official turning. Please let me know what ya'll think.
Sorry that the pics are not better I still have a bit to work on with my photo skills.
Thanks,
Alan