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These pics tell the whole story
The fellow that trims my trees around home dropped off this huge burl about 2 years ago.
This is about 1/4 of it so far.
I just keep running out of time .
Time is not my friend.
Bob
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23 comments so far
MsDebbieP
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posted 397 days ago
museum art!! Nice.
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Damian Penney
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posted 397 days ago
Wow the transformation from beginning to end is quite dramatic, amazing what lurks beneath even grizzly looking pieces of lumber.
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oscorner
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posted 397 days ago
That is quite the show piece! At what speeds did you turn? I’m always amazed at the speeds that some turners will turn at. I usually rough in at 850 rpms and do my finish cuts and sanding at 1000rpms. With burls and unbalanced turnings I will go to my SuperShop where I can turn as slow as 32 rpms.
Oh, by the way, I’m not going to ask, O.K.?
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mot
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posted 397 days ago
Beautiful form, Bob! I’d love to watch you turn some stuff if the opportunity ever presented itself.
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Bob #2
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posted 397 days ago
Thanks for the encouragement fellas and gal.
Debbie you are too kind. – Tell my Wife! <vbg>
Daimin;
Once you start this hobby no stick of wood ever looks the same to you.-;)
Oscorner:
I try to let the wood tell me how fast to cut so I have no hard and fast rules.
I keep my tools razor sharp and try to take light , consistent cuts. I usually have a shape in my head I am trying to carve.
I tend to think of it in feet/meters per second as the travel on a large piece is much greater than a small one.
I can’t really cut much lower than 100 rpm but the lathe will drop to around 25.
Most is refined at around 1000 and finishing above that.
Mot:
Your are always welcome to my shop any time you are up my way.
Bob
-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner
Bob Babcock
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posted 396 days ago
Beautiful Bob…looks like it took an extraordinary light touch.
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rudedog552
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posted 396 days ago
Just amazing. Gods beauty beond the skin.
-- Randy - Live by the spirit...Galatians 5:16
rudedog552
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posted 396 days ago
Nice!
-- Randy - Live by the spirit...Galatians 5:16
DAN
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posted 253 days ago
great bowl. thing of beauty
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Karson
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posted 253 days ago
Bob A beautiful bowl. Does it look the same today. and have you done any others from the same burl?
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Bob #2
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posted 253 days ago
Hi karson.
I have another piece ready to turn if I could just get at it.
Soon .
Bob
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Karson
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posted 253 days ago
Good job and good luck.
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Douglas Bordner
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posted 253 days ago
You’re sure right about every stick taking on a new measure. Beautiful piece of wood skillfully turned and finished. Deb is right.
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
Dorje
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posted 253 days ago
Amazing.
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Blake
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posted 253 days ago
These natural turnings are some of my favorite forms of woodworking. I love it so much.
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Dadoo
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posted 253 days ago
I want one of those. Absolutely love the natural edge. What did you finish it with? Gloss poly? Laquer?
-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!
Bob #2
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posted 253 days ago
Thanks for the kind ciomments guys and gals.
I wanted to document the pricess here incase any of or LJ’s had some burl they wanted to try.
To be honest with you all, I must tell you, that not all the wood you mount on the lathe makes it to the bowl stage but it’s all fun.
I can never drive by a gnarly piece of wood without stopping a doing a close up survey now.
Bob
-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner
mike
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posted 239 days ago
Bob
I love the result – burl turning is one of my favorites.
Could you add a few tags to your post so we can find our turnings in the vast
space of the great projects on LumberJocks.
suggest – burl, bowl, lathe at a minimum
Cheers
Mike
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RobG
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posted 220 days ago
Wow that is a nice piece!! I wish I had “Friends” dropping stuff like that off at my House!!!!
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rikkor
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posted 220 days ago
Simply fantastic. You did a wonderful job with the burl.
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trifern
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posted 61 days ago
That is one gorgeous hunk of burl. You did it justice. Great tutorial as well.
-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
darryl
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posted 61 days ago
wow!
that is an amazing looking burl you got to work with!
the inside of that bowl is beautiful.
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Bob #2
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posted 60 days ago
Finding stuff like that is a treasure hunt. You don’t find it very often and when you do it’s tough to decide how to present it.
I love it when it happens though! <g>
Bob
-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner