I haven't had much productive shop time lately (I did finally install a HF airhose reel, but no product has resulted yet from that ). Today I decided to try to turn a pen from an old ficus branch. Drilled out the pith for the tubes, BLO/CA finish, and the pen in the pictures below is the result. Also hadn't turned a bowl in a while, so took a chunk of spalted maple and made the one in the pictures below, finish is just turner's wax. Forgot how hard and slow old maple is to turn... Thanks for looking.
Some turnings from today
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Some turnings from today
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Beautiful work Bill.From the "deep south" part of Canada
Richard in Smithville
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Thanks all for the kind comments.
Gerti, the ficus was soft, and turned very easily. I'm wondering if too soft to make a durable pen for any length of time, but I'm not enamored yet of the spiral-cut grain look to it - it reminds me of plywood.
And to be more accurate about the spalted maple I used for the bowl, it is more properly "ambrosia" maple. Here is a slightly smaller bowl I turned from another chunk of it. This one had BLO applied, then the turner's wax.Bill in Buena ParkComment
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Maple bowls are very nice. I've mostly turned "spindle" stuff --pens, tool handles, wine stoppers, and a couple peppermills. I did buy a bowl gouge about 6 months ago. Need to turn a handle for it, and then maybe I can consider bowls and other "non-spindle" projects.LeeComment
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Thanks Lee & Paul. The bowl from the first post is a 6inch bowl, and the second one is a 5 inch bowl.Bill in Buena ParkComment
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