I finaly have some photos of some of the things that I have been doing this winter This is the first time that I have tried to post
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Walnut Jar
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Cherry Jar
This was my first to projects that used segmented turning.
Wow! :o Those are really beautiful.
You do nice work, Bill
Nice. ;D Someday I gotta try that. Maybe in my spare time ??? ::) ::)
As an avid woodworker myself, all I can say is "Those are way cool!!!" I have a small lathe, and have tried my hand at turning bowls and vessels, but nothing like that. Although the largest segmented turning was for the base of our dining room table I built for my Wife. It is about 20 inches in diameter. Now this was scary. I wondered the whole time I was turning it when it was going to blow apart.
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Needless to say everything went well. I will have to try a bowl or vessel like yours sometime soon. I really like your work.
Very nice work Bill. I have an opening for a segmented turning demonstrator for periods 3,5 & 6. When can you make it?
Beautiful work fellas!!
Wow! Nice work! I have got to get a lathe - right after I get the garage cleaned out...sometime after the spring thaw...
:D
Nice looking work Bill. I do segmented turning but have
not done any ring turning like yours. Will have to try it
soon with the wood i have received. Keep up the good
work.
Sawwood
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Bill, nice turnings. Isn't it fun! The only tense thing about it is when you are nearing completion and they are spinning while you move the gouge up to cut one last time. :o When the walls of the bowl or jar are getting thinner. What is neat is your jars will be around for many many years. I hope you signed and dated them. 8)
What did you use to sand inside the jars? I made a sander out of a dowel, part of a mouse pad and a 2" hook and loop disk. It works slick. A lot better than sticking my hand in there. :)
Charlie
Thanks for all the good words.
I have been doing a lot of wood turning in the last 2 years. It helps to be retired.
Deepwoods that was a nice job on the table base. The first few tims you get very jumpy about blow ups.
Charlie i used my han as these pieces are 9 inches wide. I only had to sand with 220 and finer paper. It is hard to believe that a gouge can leave that good of a finish.
Very nice work, Bill B. Someday I will sharpen the chisels and fire up the lathe again. It is just an old Shopsmith Mark V but I used to have lot of fun with it. There are a number of qulity turners on this site and everytime someone shows their work I get wistful again.
HI Bill_B
That's very nice work indeed 8). It would be neet to mix the wood species also. I also have a lathe, 32 inches between centres. I've not tried that kind of work, just with solid peices. Do you have the ring-headed gouge to go inside the bowl to escavate it out like a vase? You can turn a vase with quite a small mouth with those. I got mine at Lee Valley Tools and it came with a white sharpening stone and jig. Nice little tool :) The one thing I have against my lathe is its not reversible. I suppose one could rewire it for reverse though. In order to do a good polishing job (I mean like a glass vinish) on the lathe it needs reverse.
Again, very nice work. :)
regards
HI All:
Here is one of my works that bring back alot of memories of fishing with grandfather and an elderley gentleman who loved to fish and tie flies. These two gentleman were great story tellers of fishing and hunting, no one told it like they did. :)
The case of this fly box was made of black cherry I cut on the woodlot and had milled locally. The cover was white ash, also from the back 40. I placed a mirror inside at a 10 degree angle so that when viewed above you could see the profile of the flies. I lined the bottom with white felt to enhance the color of the flies. These classic atlantic salmon flies were tied by Arthur Eastwood of Pentiac NB, whom was a good friend of mine for over 20 years. His wife was a very nice lady also. I'll remember them always.
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enjoy :)
holy cow ! wow wow ! that is all awesome ! amazing stuff ! beautiful no doubt !
How do You find the time to make that wonderful things? Looks like a lot of time spet at them. I can´t find more then 24 H/day and most of it takes to make me a pease of bread.
Are all of You pensioners or married? ;D
Swede.
;D Nope, some of us are spoiled young bachelors ;D
SwampDonkey, In answer to your question I used onty a 3/8 bowl gouge on these projects. When I was glueing them up I would turn the insid after each 3 rings. I have an old delta lathe that I have made some changes on.
Al the wood that was used was sawed by my brother and I about 25 years ago on a Crabb circle mill. I have stored the wood in my barn.
Swede I am a retired carpenter. It is nice to be able to do this kind of work with no time restraints.
Right now I am working on a small bud vase that is 4x10 inches. It will have over 700 pieces in it.
Good job Bill.
A few years ago I bought my lathe used, a heavy cast iron delta. It was a early Christmas present for me. After getting it set up and what not, I decided to turn down a snowman for my wife. I went over where I was cutting fire wood and got a chunk of maple, 2 ft long, 16 inch dia. Knowing that it would spit after a while in the house, but I just figured it would be nice to have something different in the house for the holidays. Besides I could kinda show off my skills with the lathe. ;D After I finish it I brought it in the house, my wife just love it. That night when we went to bed, about 3 AM the dog started barking, I jump out of bed, grab the gun and started looking out the windows for theives. Didnt see anything excipe the dog pawing at the floor. I turned the light on and there were big black ants everywhere, hundreds of them. Here that snowman crack open and that was there nest for the winter.
EZ
Ewwww!
Ants!
>:(
:D :D :D Carpenter Ants, geee gats! :D :D :D
An old man had some swarmig bees and they stayed as bees use to do up in a high fir. As beefarmers use to, he wanted his bees back in the hive but could only find one way; To shoot of the branch they where sitting on with his gun.
He shoot, the branch was still up there, but the bees flew "home". This (You to choose) hunter must have hit the qeen bee!!
EZ
Here in small & poor Sweden we´ve heard that evryting is JUST THAT BIG at "Your side" but... ???.Are You hunting ants with a shot-gun ?!!??
*har to belive* Swede.
:D :D :D :D
Poor Swede:
I'm not sure if you were joking or got confused. Hard to follow your broken english ;D
Carpenter ants escavade wood to make cavities and canals for over wintering and nesting their young grubs. EZ was awakened by his puppy dog that was barking at the ants crawling all over the floor. They were living in his carving he made for the wife. He had the gun because he thought burglars were about the house when he heard the dog barking ;)
Here's a couple novelty pieces done with the hollowing tool (ring-headed gouge). Nice dust collectors, made of black cherry :D
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Hersey Bowl
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Hollowed bowl
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A) Hollowing Tool ; D) Spiralling/Texturing System; C) Captive Ring Tool
Courtesy Lee Valley Tools
http://www.leevalley.com
Nice lathe work SwampDonkey. I re instituted using the lathe at our school when I started teaching there. The kids really like using them. The guy before me got rid of all the lathes and I have recouped three, 2 used 12" Deltas and a small Fisch mini lathe. In 2005 the school is going into a complete renovation and I hope to have a new CNC lathe to go with the new shop.
I remember shop classes to in grade 8 and 9 at the intermediate school. We had lathes, sanders, planers, bandsaws, routers, jointers and so on. Now the government has put an end to that, so unless your dad or uncle has a shop the kids don't know what their missing. This has lead to the down fall of alot of the trades around here, except welders. There are alot of small and medium sized welding shops in my area. But a once thriving ship building industry and railway shops have all been closed up. Seems most all the governement is promoting and financing now is call centres, how useless a career could that be? Over the years alot of the tradesmen have been complaining that there are no new people entering the trades. The average age of most of the existing trademen is approaching in the 50's. I even know a fella who worked on the dry docks as a welder and he was beged to come back to work for the company as a supervisor. He was nearly 80 at the time. I guess that's what the government wants.
Funny how something can turn into a rant :D
Hey, you got a government like that too!
Basswood carvings
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This Atlantic Salmon was carved by a friend of mine, the same gentleman than tied the flies above :)
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This loon was carved from basswood and is the only carving I've ever done. Carving is delicate, tedious and requires alot of dedication and attention to detail. I have a long way to go. BTW, all basswood came from the woodlot :)
I've carved a few axe handles made of rock maple and canoe paddles made of yellow birch (carved by axe blade). :)
Hi Bill_B
What glue did you use for your segments? Was it water based? in Granular? or Pearl form? Or straight from the squeeze bottle?
So many questions :D
regards
Thanks for clearing that up for him, SwampDonkey.
Why would I or anybody hunt ants with a shotgun.
EZ
No problem EZ
Sometimes the language barrier confuses a person. I've seen that alot with trying to understand peoples' jokes from another country or culture, for example.
Take care ;)
BEAUTIFUL PIECES GUYS! 8) 8) KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. :) :)
Swamp Donkey do you make your own flies too?
Jeff and Delcy
SwampDonkey
I have not used the hollowing tool that you have.
I use yellow carpenters glue . It is ths same as Titebond. I am able to let the rings stant 30 minutes after gluing them turn on the lathe.
That is some nice work you have done.
Here is a candy dish out of Walnut and Maple(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/Walnut%20&%20Maple%20Bowl.jpg)
This is a 14inch PepperMill made of Walnut, Maple, Elm, Oak and Cherry(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/PepperMill.jpg)
Some eggs from a maple burl(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/Maple%20Eggs.jpg)
Small Bud Vases(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/Laminated%20Bud%20Vase.jpg)
@ Bill_B
Those are all very nice pieces of work, I gotta try that sometime when its warm again. I was wondering what glue to use and Titebond seems to be the stuff :) The other glue I mentioned is very fast setting and bonds real tite but Titebond would be better if you have to take time to position the pieces.
Thanks for the reply on that.
Alot of artisans turn out those burls into bowls and large ones they sometimes hollow out for coffee table bases with a glass top. There's a man in the Fredericton area that turns quite full of them and some of his yellow birch turnings have 'fox fire'. But once you dry the wood the fungus dies and it doesn't glow in the dark any longer. But, he has a market in New York for some of his pieces which they pay upward of $3,500 a piece, if you could imagine that.
Keep up the good works :)
@ stump Jumper
I have tied my own trout and salmon flies in the past, but hair-wing only. These flies in the picture with all the exotic feathers are $75 a piece. The hobby is quite expensive now. We used to buy those flies back in the 70's for $0.50 each. Ahh, the good ole days are no more. I used to substitue the jungle cockeye hackle with breast feathers of the ruffed grouse which was lighter in color. I use mostly deer, squirrel tail and calf tail for the wings. I suppose you could snip a few hairs of the pet dog or cat if you wanted to. ;D ;D ;D
regards
SwampDonkey The eggs were what was left over from turning 5 bowls for a freind. Don't have the film developed yet.
@Bill_B
Your going all out with your turnings, which is nice. In these cold winter days, it must be toasty warm in the shop ;D
I have firewood and a stove in my shop, but I don't trust the flu any longer. Its ancient, and its not built from the floor up. Its base is mounted on a wooden pedistal 4 feet off the floor. Not my idea of a proper flu installation. At the time the building was constructed it had a gravel floor, that's why they suspended the flu.
keep on turnin.........