Post by Beamer on May 8, 2010 17:46:11 GMT -6
It was bowl turning!
Having only turned 3 bowls in my life - and having only one of those to succeed - I don't pull out the bowl gouge very often. I'm also not terribly artistic with that kinda thing so I don't get too inspired to do much bowl turning anyway.
But the veef came to me about 2 months ago with these (maybe it was 4 months ago) little ceramic dish thingies - They hold about a cup and a half of whatever and she wanted me to turn her some lids for 'em.
She talked me into buying this big wide plank of Iroko way back when and I never did find a use for it. Well it managed to split right up the middle over 50% of it's length. I'm still irked about that. A 10' long, 16" wide board split right in half for nearly 6 feet total (it split at each end).
It's nifty wood - supposed to be a substitute for Teak - and it had this neat ribbon looking figure to it that I thought would be nice ... for something ... dunno what. When it split, though, I ended up with a lotta these half-width pieces - about 6-8" wide and of varying lengths. Kinda greasy feelin like it has some natural oils in it, too.
Anywho - i set about turnin' a lid from some of this stuff and the first try failed due to poor design (wall was too thin for a jam chuck).
So here ya go:
Having only turned 3 bowls in my life - and having only one of those to succeed - I don't pull out the bowl gouge very often. I'm also not terribly artistic with that kinda thing so I don't get too inspired to do much bowl turning anyway.
But the veef came to me about 2 months ago with these (maybe it was 4 months ago) little ceramic dish thingies - They hold about a cup and a half of whatever and she wanted me to turn her some lids for 'em.
She talked me into buying this big wide plank of Iroko way back when and I never did find a use for it. Well it managed to split right up the middle over 50% of it's length. I'm still irked about that. A 10' long, 16" wide board split right in half for nearly 6 feet total (it split at each end).
It's nifty wood - supposed to be a substitute for Teak - and it had this neat ribbon looking figure to it that I thought would be nice ... for something ... dunno what. When it split, though, I ended up with a lotta these half-width pieces - about 6-8" wide and of varying lengths. Kinda greasy feelin like it has some natural oils in it, too.
Anywho - i set about turnin' a lid from some of this stuff and the first try failed due to poor design (wall was too thin for a jam chuck).
So here ya go:
