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When VIMH said,
"Can you make a 'NORMAL, ROUND' bowl?"
I said,
"I think so."
It's round, anyhow. Normal? I don't know.
I set out with a log. Do you see the wrinkles in photo #4? I know, when I see things like that, there's something going on in there. I fichiseled the bulk of the bark off before I mounted it.
I took to it with my cool new chainsaw and squared off one end and got me a blank. Then, I mounted it on the wormscrew and started looking for a shape. I wanted to make it ROUND, without making it any SMALLER than need be.
This, again, is Jacaranda. As I said in the last piece, Jacaranda is, by and large, fairly featureless. Yet, there are spots where some kind of stress has happened. These spots are what I look for. They realy provide some interesting eye candy in this otherwise drab wood.
Keep an eye on the area at the bottom of photos #1 & 2, and around the inclusion above the bark in #4. The grain-crossing area in #s 1 & 2 also rendered some very nice chetoyance. You can see it starting to emerge, even before tool mark removal and sanding. Yes, MUCH sanding was involved, here. Dealing with so much end-grain, it can't be avoided.
MUCH sanding.
(The different tone in #4 is because of lighting, shot at night, under incandescent light.)
Polished up, even end-grain can get pretty.
I turned the bottom, knowing I probably wouldn't return to it, and flipped it into the 2" jaws, and cut out all that perfectly good wood from inside that might've made a nice bowl. (SOMEDAY, mebbees, I'll have a coring system.)
The proof that this wood is well-seasoned, after a couple years on the shelf, is in the fact that I managed to get it down to about 3/16" without cracking. I hit the bark with ***************, before I got into it.
"Goodbye, 'NORMAL.' Welcome back, Live-edge."
Two wrongs NEVER make a right. But, three lefts ALWAYS make a right.
Thank you. And, I apologize.
"Can you make a 'NORMAL, ROUND' bowl?"
I said,
"I think so."
It's round, anyhow. Normal? I don't know.
I set out with a log. Do you see the wrinkles in photo #4? I know, when I see things like that, there's something going on in there. I fichiseled the bulk of the bark off before I mounted it.
I took to it with my cool new chainsaw and squared off one end and got me a blank. Then, I mounted it on the wormscrew and started looking for a shape. I wanted to make it ROUND, without making it any SMALLER than need be.
This, again, is Jacaranda. As I said in the last piece, Jacaranda is, by and large, fairly featureless. Yet, there are spots where some kind of stress has happened. These spots are what I look for. They realy provide some interesting eye candy in this otherwise drab wood.
Keep an eye on the area at the bottom of photos #1 & 2, and around the inclusion above the bark in #4. The grain-crossing area in #s 1 & 2 also rendered some very nice chetoyance. You can see it starting to emerge, even before tool mark removal and sanding. Yes, MUCH sanding was involved, here. Dealing with so much end-grain, it can't be avoided.
MUCH sanding.
(The different tone in #4 is because of lighting, shot at night, under incandescent light.)
Polished up, even end-grain can get pretty.
I turned the bottom, knowing I probably wouldn't return to it, and flipped it into the 2" jaws, and cut out all that perfectly good wood from inside that might've made a nice bowl. (SOMEDAY, mebbees, I'll have a coring system.)
The proof that this wood is well-seasoned, after a couple years on the shelf, is in the fact that I managed to get it down to about 3/16" without cracking. I hit the bark with ***************, before I got into it.
"Goodbye, 'NORMAL.' Welcome back, Live-edge."
Two wrongs NEVER make a right. But, three lefts ALWAYS make a right.
Thank you. And, I apologize.