Hello all,
on my 1 hectare block of land we have a lot of forest oak trees and there was much of it left on the wood pile. When I first split it (for burning) I thought 'jeez this looks good'. My investigation into turning this was that it was nice but 'a tad' prone to splitting. Perhaps 'a tad' is a slight understatement :D. Without doing a long story, my first attempt was a natural edge small bowl - the initial between centre turning being from a cut branch and initially having both live edges between centres - one becomes the bottom and the other the top. This was turned from a green piece and became a smiley tealight (hopefully the first photo). You can see how much this split.
I then started turning some other bowls but they were splitting all over the place. After some sulking (well more than just some), navel contemplation, research and then some resolve, I decided 'firetruck' it, I like the wood and with the coffee grinds mixed with CA or epoxy I was going to give this a go. Anyway, the black should make a nice contrast.
So I have attached some photos of some partially finished bowls with lots of glue and coffee grinds and finally the first properly finished bowl (very small) but such a nice grain that I think I will pursue this, although I may have to wait until SWMBO is away before cutting down some of the bigger forest oaks.
The finished bowl has a 50c piece next to it - it is around 11cm diameter and 5cm tall. The black coffee contrasts nicely (in my humble opinion).
As you may notice there is one bowl that took a lot of coffee and epoxy / CA so it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
I would be very interested in opinions - the turning itself (both design and quality) are ordinary at best but so far I am pleased. It is finished with EEE and glow from u-beaut.
cheers
Mick
on my 1 hectare block of land we have a lot of forest oak trees and there was much of it left on the wood pile. When I first split it (for burning) I thought 'jeez this looks good'. My investigation into turning this was that it was nice but 'a tad' prone to splitting. Perhaps 'a tad' is a slight understatement :D. Without doing a long story, my first attempt was a natural edge small bowl - the initial between centre turning being from a cut branch and initially having both live edges between centres - one becomes the bottom and the other the top. This was turned from a green piece and became a smiley tealight (hopefully the first photo). You can see how much this split.
I then started turning some other bowls but they were splitting all over the place. After some sulking (well more than just some), navel contemplation, research and then some resolve, I decided 'firetruck' it, I like the wood and with the coffee grinds mixed with CA or epoxy I was going to give this a go. Anyway, the black should make a nice contrast.
So I have attached some photos of some partially finished bowls with lots of glue and coffee grinds and finally the first properly finished bowl (very small) but such a nice grain that I think I will pursue this, although I may have to wait until SWMBO is away before cutting down some of the bigger forest oaks.
The finished bowl has a 50c piece next to it - it is around 11cm diameter and 5cm tall. The black coffee contrasts nicely (in my humble opinion).
As you may notice there is one bowl that took a lot of coffee and epoxy / CA so it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
I would be very interested in opinions - the turning itself (both design and quality) are ordinary at best but so far I am pleased. It is finished with EEE and glow from u-beaut.
cheers
Mick
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