Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Getting ready for AAW Symposium and needed fresh turnings to display.
I haven't been able to get much shop time recently following hernia surgery and complication, so yesterday was a treat to test myself. Made 4 square forms and applied Minwax Wiping Poly buffed to accentuate the grain and give a nice sealed finish that looks and feels like real wood! 7" W Top piece is Bubinga and bottom Koa.
nice forms and wood
Great pieces...
I always have hard time keeping the edges uniform, but you have it down.
Re: Getting ready for AAW Symposium and needed fresh turnings to display.
You da man, Jamie! Both are quite beautiful!
It must be nice to remain hip by turning square.
Very nice figure! What does the bottom of each look like?
Brian, the bottom centers are circular and flat. The pieces were mounted.....
....by gluing on a waste block for making a tenon for chuck grip, then waste blocks turned away. That's a very good technique for mounting thin pieces to be turned without thickness waste from tenons or recesses.
Re: Brian, the bottom centers are circular and flat. The pieces were mounted.....
Very nice work and the figure and grain of the woods adds significantly to the pieces. My first inclination would be to turn a glue block with the center marked by the live center pin, mount the blank on a screw chuck and shape and sand the underside, use the tail stock to center and glue the waste block on the lathe, then move the a 4 jaw chuck to shape and sand the upper side.