A little something

Quartlow · August 29, 2004, 08:46:22 PM

to wet your whistle, since I have a show coming up in 13 days I figured I better get a few more things done.

whipped this up today, still have to turn the bottom, but that wont take but 10 minutes or so

Cherry With walnut polka dots
Ended up being 19.75 X @.75 deep, and thick, almost an inch. Iusally get them down to around 3/8 or so but the SO wanted me to do a few heavy ones to see if they sell.

The 11th and 12th next month I'll be in blackstone VA. So you VA folks drop on by and say hi. I'll be setup outside and I'm taking a lathe along to demo turn on.

They also have a tractor show there with a pretty good turnout

DanG · August 29, 2004, 08:54:59 PM

HOOO BOY! That's some pretty work. How much do you get for a piece like that? How about some pics of other pieces?(Maybe you already posted them and I missed them in my absence ???)

CHARLIE · August 29, 2004, 10:24:21 PM

That platter has some nice grain. An inch thick seems like it would be pretty heavy. I like the walnut plugs in the rim. Makes for an interesting piece of work. Very nice. I could not turn anything that large. A 19" platter! Wow! I'm impressed.

Patty · August 30, 2004, 05:47:16 AM

Very nice.

My two favorite woods, cherry & walnut. So, I am curious also, how much do you sell a piece like that for?

Gilman · August 30, 2004, 09:22:57 AM

Quartlow,
Nice bowl. What kind of finish will you put on it?

You mentioned that you still need to turn the bottom. How do you chuck up the bowl? I've always done it backwards, turn the bottom and then turn the top. Curious George needs to know :P

SwampDonkey · August 30, 2004, 04:00:15 PM

;)

I dunno guys but it looks suspiciously like the collection plate to me. Whada ya think? :D

Beautiful work Quartlow, I like the walnut inlay around the edges, and the finish you used brings the grain and color of the cherry to life.

Quartlow · August 30, 2004, 05:14:36 PM

Swamp Donkey,, your onto to me ante up folks

Gilman
There are actually a couple stages to my turnings. First I rough bowls out of green logs leaving the thickness 10% of the diameter.

Second I boil them for one hour for every inch of wall thickness. I've determended this does a couple things, 1 it stress relieves the wood and 2 it opens up the wood driving the sap out and replacing it with plain water.

Third I wrap them in craft paper and let them dry. The blank this came out of was origanly 24 inches in diameter and 2.5 thick. It druyed in about 12 weeks stored in a 7 X 12 room with nothing but a dehumidafier and a 100 wat bulb

When they come out I glue a waste block on the bottom with plain old titebond 2 then either screw a face plate to that or grip it with a scroll chuck. Big bowls usually get a faceplate.

I re turn it round sand and finish it. If I glued a waste block on I use a sharp chisel and pop it off..I have a set of large aluminum jaws for my scroll chuck that are flat.It has 8 rubber buttons screwed to it that grip the outside edge of the bowl. Unfortunatly it only goes to like 16 or 17 inches. So I made bigger ones out of 3/4 plywood with sacricial block on it to grip the bowl. After sizing them to fit I stick some foam strips between the jaws and the bowl to protect it turn the bottom and done

The only finish on this is watco danish oil and wipe on poly the watco is on this one all ready I'll poly it after I finish the bottom

Patty and charlie, I'll get $250 for this one it comes home with me.

Everybody, thank you for the compliments