Woodworking

[Brocky]

This is the kind of woodworking I like to do.

 

[BlackSmith]

That right there is skill

 

[MasterBlaster]

Damn! You carved that???

 

[Brocky]

A real fun project that was inspired by a Loonie Tunes comic book. The background of the picture is a little confusing because I had to balance the carving on its end so that it would post right side up.

 

[BlackSmith]

My head can’t work like that. Angles and dangles, round flat level square plumb, thats my world. I want to apologize for calling that a skill, it’s a art and you’ve got it.

 

[stehansen]

Very impressive.

 

[BlackSmith]

It’s rather simple Jim, first ya cutout a bunch of stuff and lay it to the side...


Then ya glue’em together...



Then ya pile’em up on one another with a squirt of glue in between’em...


Then ya just spin’em round and round and chew the ugly parts off...

 

[frans]

That bowl is really beautiful.
I like to carve stuff. For me the irregularities add charactor.
Black walnut salad bowl i just rub it with olive oil once in awhile. We make salads in it.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Beautiful!

 

[BlackSmith]

You guys that carve have a gift. I’ll never be in that league.

 

[frans]

Thx. But i prob wont carve black walnut again. The dust damm near killed me. It is very strong

 

[frans]

It’s rather simple Jim, first ya cutout a bunch of stuff and lay it to the side...
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Then ya glue’em together...
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Then ya pile’em up on one another with a squirt of glue in between’em...
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Then ya just spin’em round and round and chew the ugly parts off...
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I really like the thick edge it unique!

 

[Brocky]

Beautiful pieces frans and Bob. What types of woods did you use on the last bowl you showed, Bob?

 

[BlackSmith]

First bowl was black walnut and red oak, second one is sycamore and purpleheart. Wish I had used oak and not sycamore, don’t really care for the variation in the sycamore.

 

[MasterBlaster]

 

[Raj]

Nice works!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Really cool. Best have a respirator for the turning though

 

[MasterBlaster]

I would for damn sure!!!

 

[stig]

Just have the dust sucktion behind the lathe turned up as high as it'll go.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Or use BOTH.

 

[BlackSmith]

Thanks for the education on the bowl gouge Stig. You turned the most dreaded part of my play time into the most enjoyable.

 

[stig]

 

[BlackSmith]

Almost finished another lamp shade, not overly happy with this one...

 

[stig]

If you had started the curve closer to the top ( Narrow part) it would have looked better.
As it is, it has a straight part before the curve starts, that takes something away from the overall impression.
You do some nice segmenting, with absolutely no spaces between the segments.

 

[BlackSmith]

What you see as the top is actually the bottom. The fifth ring up from the bottom is 1/2 a segment out of rotation, it’s in line with the fourth. Each ring is supposed to stagger each other. I wasn’t woke when I glued it on. This piece would’ve been better used for its btu value. Live and learn.