Showing posts with label cracks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cracks. Show all posts

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Opinions wanted

 I need some opinions, please if you're reading this - woodturner or not - leave a comment.  I need to figure out what to do with the voids on this burl.  Many of the voids go at least an inch deep, some of them as much as 2 or 3 inches and up to 1/2" wide.  With a finished thickness of under 1/2" many of them will go all the way through the finished piece, risking it coming apart on the lathe.
 There's also this mysterious hole in one side of the burl.  It doesn't go all the way through to the bark and it doesn't appear in the bowl I cored off the bottom of this blank.
 The 2 options are: 1) leave them alone and leave the voids unfilled and natural or 2) fill them with something; coffee grounds, Turquoise, Chrysocolla, Malachite, or something similar.


This is an earlier set from the same tree to give you a better idea of the color of the wood and how it looks with coffee grounds used as a filler.

Now it's time to let me know what you think.  Fill or no fill.  If fill then with what?

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Works in progress

 More work on the Oak Burl set today.  The core was remounted, turned true, a tenon turned, and then the blank was cored again.
I repeated the process 1 more time and I ended up with 4 bowls total.  I should end up with a 5th bowl as I have a small cutoff I cut off the side of the blank before I started turning.  It won't go with this set, but will be from the same blank.
The largest is just under 14" diameter, they step down from there, the smallest is about 4" diameter.











 I also remounted and trued up the outside of the Eucalyptus burl I cored the bottom off of the other day.
This one has a ton of voids.  I have to figure out what to do with them and I don't think I can progress much further until I figure out what I'm going to do.