Woodturning Works in Progress
The fun is in feeling stretched.
| From time to time it is good to leave the ordinary bowls behind and try something that may or may not work out, but should be interesting to turn. As I come to an interesting piece of wood or something that will stretch my understanding of turning wood, I plan to post it here as the work progresses. Some things may work and some may fail, but I should learn from all of them. Hopefully you too will enjoy and learn and share the experience. I do not expect any regularity to these pages but occasionally something will come about. | |
| With the last spruce burl done, another has made it to the lathe with a whole new set of design challenges and turning mysteries. |
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| The beginning of a spruce burl hollow form |
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| Finally done, the vase has become an expression of praise with outstretched arms. |
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| The stump has progressed to a birch vase with outreaching "arms". |
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| I had taken down a couple of small birch for Dad. They had died on the stump and then stood for a year or so. I expected a bit of spalt so I decided to work on the stump section of the larger. As stumps do, it widened towards the bottom and the root beginnings caused a fair amount of irregularity. I decided to make this the top and leave edges around the voids. |
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| Manitoba maple or ash leaf maple will often have red streaks close to the heart. This piece of crotch wood revealed some nice color along with characteristic crotch grain in a winged platter about 13" long and 6" wide. Clicking on the image will take you to the project. |
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| I turned a block of tamarac with its characteristic pronounced grain into a bowl with open sides and inturned edges. It was a lot of fun. |
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