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RonnieC
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Another charitable thing our woodturning club does is sponsor a Christmas tree for the Orlando Museum of Art’s fundraiser. They auction off fully decorated Christmas trees that are done up by professional decorators. Various clubs and organizations sponsor by donating decorations. The trees look absolutely amazing and sell for crazy money, either to wealthy patrons or to businesses.
I turned a few quick ornaments from poplar with three coats of lacquer. Some of the other members will do some elegantly turned ornaments but I didn’t have the time for that this year.
I turned a few quick ornaments from poplar with three coats of lacquer. Some of the other members will do some elegantly turned ornaments but I didn’t have the time for that this year.
PirateTurner
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Splated maple vase. C&C welcomed.
I confess this has been on the shelf a few years after turning awaiting me to decide on some type of finishing scheme. First of all, the vase is two turnings, through barrel and (now glued on) base, Approximately 4.5" at the mouth and 10" tall, 1/4 wall. IIRC, the wood is from maple that came from trees downed in Nashville TN ~10 years ago during a flood.
The finish is a fading, hand application of Hampshire Sheen Sky Blue and Midnight Blue tints with Tung Oil applied to seal the tinted surface, particularly the untinted interior surfaces, one coat only. Note, tints do not go on mixed grained turnings evenly. Given that (lesson learned), I used the tints to add color to the Target Coatings water based acrylic lacquer spayed with a smallish Kobalt gravity feed sprayer. This even'ed (is that a word?) out the color somewhat. Buffed with the beal system's Tripoli and White Diamond and then Mother's Brazilian Carnauba Wax.
Stanley tape measure for size comparison.
Thanks for looking.
I confess this has been on the shelf a few years after turning awaiting me to decide on some type of finishing scheme. First of all, the vase is two turnings, through barrel and (now glued on) base, Approximately 4.5" at the mouth and 10" tall, 1/4 wall. IIRC, the wood is from maple that came from trees downed in Nashville TN ~10 years ago during a flood.
The finish is a fading, hand application of Hampshire Sheen Sky Blue and Midnight Blue tints with Tung Oil applied to seal the tinted surface, particularly the untinted interior surfaces, one coat only. Note, tints do not go on mixed grained turnings evenly. Given that (lesson learned), I used the tints to add color to the Target Coatings water based acrylic lacquer spayed with a smallish Kobalt gravity feed sprayer. This even'ed (is that a word?) out the color somewhat. Buffed with the beal system's Tripoli and White Diamond and then Mother's Brazilian Carnauba Wax.
Stanley tape measure for size comparison.
Thanks for looking.
SMOKEYBEAR
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Wrapped up the butcher block table for my kid sister for Christmas. It has a few flaws..learned a few things that didn't surface on the first one. Double doweled the legs just for a different look and didn't cut the taper through the walnut stripe in the legs. Its all walnut, white oak and Maple.
Wood purchased from Living Knot Lumber. Small local business in VA
www.livingknotlumber.com
Wood purchased from Living Knot Lumber. Small local business in VA
Living Knot Lumber Company - Abingdon, VA
Breathe life into your craft with meticulously-sourced lumber and kiln drying services at Living Knot Lumber Co serving Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Explore our wide selection of hardwood and softwood lumber including exotics, as well as sheet plywood, timber, live edge slabs, craft w
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1Garageman
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Looks AWESOME!! What kind of "finish" did you put on it? I really like it!Wrapped up the butcher block table for my kid sister for Christmas. It has a few flaws..learned a few things that didn't surface on the first one. Double doweled the legs just for a different look and didn't cut the taper through the walnut stripe in the legs. Its all walnut, white oak and Maple.
Wood purchased from Living Knot Lumber. Small local business in VA
Living Knot Lumber Company - Abingdon, VA
Breathe life into your craft with meticulously-sourced lumber and kiln drying services at Living Knot Lumber Co serving Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Explore our wide selection of hardwood and softwood lumber including exotics, as well as sheet plywood, timber, live edge slabs, craft w
SMOKEYBEAR
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Howards food safe oil, then Howards oil/ wax combo.
PirateTurner
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Simple Bowl with a "Twist"
Turned this for my daughter when she completed a 9 month training program that was centered in Albuquerque NM last year. The wood is mulberry and sourced locally in NM.
As always C&C welcomed.
From the top and side. Pencil for size comparison.
Here's the twist. At the graduation, each trainee received a memorial challenge cord. Daughter wanted her's captured in a locally sourced wooden bowl. The back story is that I gave her a bowl when she graduated from ECU in which I embedded an ECU Engineering challenge coin. The bowl was made from an oak tree taken down on campus for the student center construction. Here, I added a walnut sleeve to accentuate the coin from the bottom. The coin naturally grabs your eye from the top view. Yes, it is hard to miss from the bottom, I know.
Finish is none. Just sanded to 800 grit and Yorkshire grit.
She's happy.
Thanks for looking.
Turned this for my daughter when she completed a 9 month training program that was centered in Albuquerque NM last year. The wood is mulberry and sourced locally in NM.
As always C&C welcomed.
From the top and side. Pencil for size comparison.
Here's the twist. At the graduation, each trainee received a memorial challenge cord. Daughter wanted her's captured in a locally sourced wooden bowl. The back story is that I gave her a bowl when she graduated from ECU in which I embedded an ECU Engineering challenge coin. The bowl was made from an oak tree taken down on campus for the student center construction. Here, I added a walnut sleeve to accentuate the coin from the bottom. The coin naturally grabs your eye from the top view. Yes, it is hard to miss from the bottom, I know.
Finish is none. Just sanded to 800 grit and Yorkshire grit.
She's happy.
Thanks for looking.
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RonnieC
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Very nice bowl! I like the thin flared rim.Simple Bowl with a "Twist"
Turned this for my daughter when she completed a 9 month training program that was centered in Albuquerque NM last year. The wood is mulberry and sourced locally in NM.
As always C&C welcomed.
From the top and side. Pencil for size comparison.
Here's the twist. At the graduation, each trainee received a memorial challenge cord. Daughter wanted here's captured in a locally sourced wooden bowl. The back story is that I gave her a bowl when she graduated from ECU in which I embedded an ECU Engineering challenge coin. The bowl was made from an oak tree taken down on campus for the student center construction. Here, I added a walnut sleeve to accentuate the coin from the bottom. The coin naturally grabs your eye from the top view. Yes, it is hard to miss from the bottom, I know.
Finish is none. Just sanded to 800 grit and Yorkshire grit.
She's happy.
Thanks for looking.
Oddly, I looked at your post here and then opened up the turners forum over on sawmill creek and saw it again!
PirateTurner
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I do cross post. Also on the NCWW forum. Sent a note to the folks at GotWood and told them I posted their pencil all over the web. Good place to buy turning blanks, OBTW.Very nice bowl! I like the thin flared rim.
Oddly, I looked at your post here and then opened up the turners forum over on sawmill creek and saw it again!
snorvet
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A burial flag box for an army veteran who recently passed.
Mike65
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I made a replacement stool for my woodshop to replace the first one I made that my wife took for the kitchen.
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Firebrick43
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What round is your amish machine gun (760) chambered in?Not up to par w/ the talent already posted, but I do enjoy beetle kill projects.
Cameronl
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I made something similar, but for a slightly different purpose...
Meursault74
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Grandma's weapon rack.I made something similar, but for a slightly different purpose...
LWB
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Made a bench with my FIL. It was fun working with him. This is a first for us. Hopefully the second project is the shop.
PirateTurner
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I was gifted some maple recently by a fellow NCWoodworker.net member. Three pieces of 2.5-3" thick maple billets. Lost one with a tenon failure. Haven't had that happen in a long while. Here are the survivors. No finish has been applied, just Yorkshire grits.
For perspective, these are around 9" in diameter (one is 1/4 larger than the other), and ~2.5" high. Some color and figure in one and straight grain in the other. My usual (slightly) flared and popcorn curled rim.
As always, C&C welcomed.
And, thanks for looking.
For perspective, these are around 9" in diameter (one is 1/4 larger than the other), and ~2.5" high. Some color and figure in one and straight grain in the other. My usual (slightly) flared and popcorn curled rim.
As always, C&C welcomed.
And, thanks for looking.
aka Larry
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I was gifted some maple recently by a fellow NCWoodworker.net member. Three pieces of 2.5-3" thick maple billets. Lost one with a tenon failure. Haven't had that happen in a long while. Here are the survivors. No finish has been applied, just Yorkshire grits.
For perspective, these are around 9" in diameter (one is 1/4 larger than the other), and ~2.5" high. Some color and figure in one and straight grain in the other. My usual (slightly) flared and popcorn curled rim.
As always, C&C welcomed.
And, thanks for looking.
That maple looks an awful lot like metal.
PirateTurner
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Not sure what happened with that. Soon as I saw it I edited and reinserted my intended photos. See repost (#218). Very strange!!!That maple looks an awful lot like metal.
PirateTurner
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Here is part 1A of some cherry burl bowl creations.
10" OD X 5" deep, 3/4" wall. Why so thick? That inclusion headed toward the bowl center started sounding hollow every time the bevel rubbed it. This piece has such an incredible figure I did not want to risk a breakage.
Sanded to 320, and one coat of Mahoney's walnut oil.
As always, C&C welcomed.
More cherry burl bowls coming.
10" OD X 5" deep, 3/4" wall. Why so thick? That inclusion headed toward the bowl center started sounding hollow every time the bevel rubbed it. This piece has such an incredible figure I did not want to risk a breakage.
Sanded to 320, and one coat of Mahoney's walnut oil.
As always, C&C welcomed.
More cherry burl bowls coming.
turbowoodworker
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Come on, Larry, have you never seen the species Lista vidmarus? Not that common but very durable and highly sought after.
Cameronl
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I just finished making the enclosure for my Gainclone power amp. It looked better in my head ...
...but damn it sounds fabulous. Next to it is a Bluetooth receiver I built. Music is pumped into these speakers I completed last year.
......but damn it sounds fabulous. Next to it is a Bluetooth receiver I built. Music is pumped into these speakers I completed last year.
senlow
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Lista vidmarus. . . I thought that was a fatal disease.
SMOKEYBEAR
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Wrapped up my hallway bench. It's walnut, Maple and White Oak. Few minor errors along the way, but nothing I couldn't salvage and figure out. I don't typically share my engineering and design plans, but I like most of ya'll, so I included pics of the engineering and design schematics.
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Love the (literal) back of the envelope usage!
Mike65
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Here is the fireplace surround & mantel I built for our basement game room.
PirateTurner
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Got sidetracked replacing radiator in granddaughter's truck. Turned out the tonneau cover made a good staging table for tools and raw materials during my annual pursuit of making noise makers for the family's holiday gathering(s). Gatherings are plural this year.
Family surprised I could put the truck inside. Nice to work protected and warm.
Elk cow/rabbit predator calls (top), and elk bull calls (lower). And, these things are obnoxious!!!! Good way to wake up the neighbors the morning when they light fireworks late at night. Walnut = lacquer. Maple, cherry, oak = Mahoney (food safe) oil.
I need to turn just a couple more for guests. Waiting on PSI for delivery.
I did give one to the car dealer service rep. He was excited and asked me to autograph it. Glad to make him happy. He put me down for a courtesy exterior detail next time I'm in.
As always, C&C welcomed.
Wishing you and yours happy holidays.
Family surprised I could put the truck inside. Nice to work protected and warm.
Elk cow/rabbit predator calls (top), and elk bull calls (lower). And, these things are obnoxious!!!! Good way to wake up the neighbors the morning when they light fireworks late at night. Walnut = lacquer. Maple, cherry, oak = Mahoney (food safe) oil.
I need to turn just a couple more for guests. Waiting on PSI for delivery.
I did give one to the car dealer service rep. He was excited and asked me to autograph it. Glad to make him happy. He put me down for a courtesy exterior detail next time I'm in.
As always, C&C welcomed.
Wishing you and yours happy holidays.
snorvet
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Made a little tool box for my drafting tools.
HoosierBuddy
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About 5 month's into my daughter-in-law's pregnancy, my son asked for help making a crib. He found a set of plans online, I found some quartersawn oak and we got started. We got it all cut to size and barely started on the assembly in a weekend.
Then things went south with the pregnancy. Looked like they were going to lose the baby. DIL went to the hospital for 3 weeks and when the baby went into distress, they delivered her at 1 lb 3 oz. By unspoken agreement, my son and I decided to hold off on any more work until my granddaughter was out of the woods.
6 weeks later, she's doing really well!
The accent pegs are rosewood. They hide the holes for the mattress frame pegs (to adjust the height). The countersunk screws were an unfortunate necessity, as we measured the door to my granddaughter's eventual bedroom is just slightly too small for the crib to go through unless we made it so it could be taken apart. We used 3 each 1/4" counter sunk panhead bolts on each corner, which go into threaded inserts.
Anyway...Saturday we worked about 14 hours and the 3 of us got it ready for finish.
Proud girl dad in the middle. My youngest son was home from Med School and helped too.
Then things went south with the pregnancy. Looked like they were going to lose the baby. DIL went to the hospital for 3 weeks and when the baby went into distress, they delivered her at 1 lb 3 oz. By unspoken agreement, my son and I decided to hold off on any more work until my granddaughter was out of the woods.
6 weeks later, she's doing really well!
The accent pegs are rosewood. They hide the holes for the mattress frame pegs (to adjust the height). The countersunk screws were an unfortunate necessity, as we measured the door to my granddaughter's eventual bedroom is just slightly too small for the crib to go through unless we made it so it could be taken apart. We used 3 each 1/4" counter sunk panhead bolts on each corner, which go into threaded inserts.
Anyway...Saturday we worked about 14 hours and the 3 of us got it ready for finish.
Proud girl dad in the middle. My youngest son was home from Med School and helped too.
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Renegade1LI
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Looks great! Congratulations! Glad to hear everything worked out.About 5 month's into my daughter-in-law's pregnancy, my son asked for help making a crib. He found a set of plans online, I found some quartersawn oak and we got started. We got it all cut to size and barely started on the assembly in a weekend.
Then things went south with the pregnancy. Looked like they were going to lose the baby. DIL went to the hospital for 3 weeks and when the baby went into distress, they delivered her at 1 lb 3 oz. By unspoken agreement, my son and I decided to hold off on any more work until my granddaughter was out of the woods.
6 weeks later, she's doing really well!
The accent pegs are rosewood. They hide the holes for the mattress frame pegs (to adjust the height). The countersunk screws were an unfortunate necessity, as we measured the door to my granddaughter's eventual bedroom is just slightly too small for the crib to go through unless we made it so it could be taken apart. We used 3 each 1/4" counter sunk panhead bolts on each corner, which go into threaded inserts.
Anyway...Saturday we worked about 14 hours and the 3 of us got it ready for finish.
Proud girl dad in the middle. My youngest son was home from Med School and helped too.
PirateTurner
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Simple bowl, not.
Sweet sixteen (inches dia.) cherry burl, ~9" ht. Mahoney oil finish. This is the 'big' bowl from the burl work shown in an earlier post. I'll post more from the burl later.
This one was a bit of a challenge. A bad/stupid mounting caused considerable use of sanding gouge.
Please forgive the picture quality. I'm still sorting out the new phone.
C&C welcome.
Thanks for looking.
Sweet sixteen (inches dia.) cherry burl, ~9" ht. Mahoney oil finish. This is the 'big' bowl from the burl work shown in an earlier post. I'll post more from the burl later.
This one was a bit of a challenge. A bad/stupid mounting caused considerable use of sanding gouge.
Please forgive the picture quality. I'm still sorting out the new phone.
C&C welcome.
Thanks for looking.
1Garageman
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Beautiful!
Your Grandkids are going to argue over who gets this someday.
1Garageman
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Thanks!!!
RonnieC
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Best wishes to you and your family. Lovely crib the three of you made.
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Jakemedic
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I understand that some will discount this as not being woodworking as it was carved on my CNC machine. But it is beautiful enough my bride let me hang it in the living room 
it began life as a 2.00 cut off scrap of hickory from my local saw mill. It got moved around and collected dust for a long time. While not perfect, it is a tribute to one of the greatest rock bands ever. Enjoy!
it began life as a 2.00 cut off scrap of hickory from my local saw mill. It got moved around and collected dust for a long time. While not perfect, it is a tribute to one of the greatest rock bands ever. Enjoy!
