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Lignum Vitae turning - PIC
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Stew Denton
...They used huge laythes to form the bearings. I asked him how they worked it because of the hardness. He said that ordinary carpenters tools would work it, but that they had to be extremely sharp to effectively work that wood, and had to be kept that way.
Lignum Vitae is indeed hard but not much different from other hard woods I've turned with Janka hardness of 4000 or so, for example Gidgee from Australia. No problem with sharp tools and good technique.
The 4th crop handle from the left is Argentine "Lignum Vitae":
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