Showing posts with label continued. Show all posts
Showing posts with label continued. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2014
Fall art show black ash box lid construction continued and Additional Projects
Hi Everyone,
Well I went down to the shop and took a look at the lid and decided that it needed a finial. So here are the process photographs for this part of the construction:
I think bubinga wood will look the best as the finial:
I put it back on the lathe and turned a small tenon onto one end:
And drilled a corresponding sized mortise on the lid:
And glued them together. Im going to let this set for the rest of the day and probably will turn it late tonight:
Other Projects
Another art show project involves a box made from a linden tree branch that fell in my neighborhood in late June. Here is a photo of the top:
And here is the bottom. I wanted to add some exterior adornment to the box but as Im not a trained artist and I dont know any thing about color, painting, etc, I was hesitant to try this and possibly ruin the box so Ive gathered some thing birch bark from a tree in my yard and Im going to glue on some pieces of it back on to the sides of the box. More about this in a separate posting:
This is a box that I made out of applewood. It distorted while drying and Im unable to finish the insides so this one is going on the shelf until I can come up with another use for it:
And here is a small dried flower vase out of the same linden tree branch above. I need to get ready for the annual Blue House Sale in December and this year Im going to sell flower vases and salt cellars. More about this in a separate post a little later:
VW
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Well I went down to the shop and took a look at the lid and decided that it needed a finial. So here are the process photographs for this part of the construction:
I think bubinga wood will look the best as the finial:
I put it back on the lathe and turned a small tenon onto one end:
And drilled a corresponding sized mortise on the lid:
And glued them together. Im going to let this set for the rest of the day and probably will turn it late tonight:
Other Projects
Another art show project involves a box made from a linden tree branch that fell in my neighborhood in late June. Here is a photo of the top:
And here is the bottom. I wanted to add some exterior adornment to the box but as Im not a trained artist and I dont know any thing about color, painting, etc, I was hesitant to try this and possibly ruin the box so Ive gathered some thing birch bark from a tree in my yard and Im going to glue on some pieces of it back on to the sides of the box. More about this in a separate posting:
This is a box that I made out of applewood. It distorted while drying and Im unable to finish the insides so this one is going on the shelf until I can come up with another use for it:
And here is a small dried flower vase out of the same linden tree branch above. I need to get ready for the annual Blue House Sale in December and this year Im going to sell flower vases and salt cellars. More about this in a separate post a little later:
VW
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The Poplar Bowl continued
Hi Everyone,
I went back down to the wood shop this morning and hollowed out the poplar bowl. Here are the photos and notes for this phase of the turn:
In this photograph I had been turning the bowl for several minutes and its beginning to hollow out. Note the center of the bowl were Ive drilled out the center with a large Forstner bit. This helps to establish the depth of the bowl and it also removes the center, which owning to the fact that the center spins more slowly than the rim, can cause it to tear instead of cut smoothly:
I put the camera down and turned the inside for another 45 minutes or so. The turn has proceeded very well as the wood is dry and its cutting easily:
Before I take it off the lathe, I turned my attention to the rim. Here you see a wide area-this is going to be divided into a rim and two narrow beads below it:
And this photo shows this area turned into a fancier rim:
I took the bowl off the lathe and took it inside to look at more. I think it still needs to be hollowed out more and deepened a little bit. Here is are two views of the bowl as it stands right now:
Im going to leave it for a few hours and think about hollowing it out more. After the turn is finished it will need considerable sanding and smoothing. Ill cover all of this in a subsequent posting.
VW
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I went back down to the wood shop this morning and hollowed out the poplar bowl. Here are the photos and notes for this phase of the turn:
In this photograph I had been turning the bowl for several minutes and its beginning to hollow out. Note the center of the bowl were Ive drilled out the center with a large Forstner bit. This helps to establish the depth of the bowl and it also removes the center, which owning to the fact that the center spins more slowly than the rim, can cause it to tear instead of cut smoothly:
I put the camera down and turned the inside for another 45 minutes or so. The turn has proceeded very well as the wood is dry and its cutting easily:
Before I take it off the lathe, I turned my attention to the rim. Here you see a wide area-this is going to be divided into a rim and two narrow beads below it:
And this photo shows this area turned into a fancier rim:
I took the bowl off the lathe and took it inside to look at more. I think it still needs to be hollowed out more and deepened a little bit. Here is are two views of the bowl as it stands right now:
Im going to leave it for a few hours and think about hollowing it out more. After the turn is finished it will need considerable sanding and smoothing. Ill cover all of this in a subsequent posting.
VW
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