Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Stringman on March 21, 2016, 10:02:45 pm
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Joe sent me a whole box of myrtle bowl blanks and wood blocks and I sent him a couple rocks.
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/60206194-CF48-4AA5-B476-1B976AE7247C_zps9zritc1a.jpg) (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/cotton7611/media/60206194-CF48-4AA5-B476-1B976AE7247C_zps9zritc1a.jpg.html)
I couldn't wait to tie into that myrtle and in short order came up with a purty little bowl.
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/3390923A-1069-4815-B081-830526A2E1F0_zps2yc3ptck.jpg) (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/cotton7611/media/3390923A-1069-4815-B081-830526A2E1F0_zps2yc3ptck.jpg.html)
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/A092C053-342B-4D9B-8435-C0C8636A675A_zpsn5a48eik.jpg) (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/cotton7611/media/A092C053-342B-4D9B-8435-C0C8636A675A_zpsn5a48eik.jpg.html)
This wood is very nice to turn! Thanks Joe!
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Some folks just can't help but create works of art...Beautiful Scott!
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WOW! That is some nice work Scott. Good trade to.
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Over the years I have met some incredibly talented people at the classic. I could name several of them but we all know who they are. Scott is one of them that has incredible skills and more than that he is a giving and humble man. So lucky to have met him. Joe
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All of those look great! I agree that is purty wood.
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Thanks guys, but I still have much to learn.
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All really nice! Love that bowl.
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Joe I agree with you about Scott skilled in everything he does
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Cool stuff! LOL I used to trade wood bowl blanks for Brazilian
agate slabs.
Zuma
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VERY cool Scott
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That's is some gorgeous wood work.. How thick do your blanks for a bowl start out?
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Beautiful work Scott.
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Don, I bet that agate was beautiful! I'm kind of a wood whore and always trading for something pretty.
Lumber man, I like blanks that are 3" deep, but 2 1/2" will work and 6"-9" circles is all I can handle on this lathe.
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Nice bowl stringman! How does that myrtle turn? My last bowl gave me a lot of grief- I need to start looking for stuff that turns nicer.
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So far I've turned red oak, sycamore, black locust, Osage, maple, basswood, walnut and myrtle. This myrtle turns about as nice as any of them except Osage is the nicest. Walnut is the most difficult, but looks the best if finished nicely.
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/02176BC0-5707-455A-A4E1-53C2E867AD22_zpss0hqhufg.jpg) (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/cotton7611/media/02176BC0-5707-455A-A4E1-53C2E867AD22_zpss0hqhufg.jpg.html)
Another couple I made this morning... Myrtle on the left walnut on the right.
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I like walnut too. The last bowl was some tropical hardwood I got from a clearance bin, it was really tough. Lignum vitae is pretty tough too. Osage turns surprisingly nice. I've got some sycamore that I need to play with yet.
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Those are really great man! That walnut is gorgeous, favorite of mine except when grading for three days straight. It's to bad 8/4 is as thick as we cut it or I could get you some blanks
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Picked up the blades this morning and I can tell you they are truly fantastic as is usual for Scott's work. I feel bad that I came out on the long side of this trade. Will figure some way to even it up some. Sometimes a fellow just gets lucky. Thanks< Joe
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Man those, are really nice. I just recently got an Excelsior midi lathe, with free bed extension. I haven't gotten to play with it as much as I would like, but it is a really nice unit, quiet, and very vibration free. It is just sitting on my bench at the moment, till I make a stand for it. I don't have all the tools I would like, as they want your first male child for them! I have a mini carbide set, meant for pens, and a full size set, made in China, but they sharpen up fairly well, and do the job that I am capable of. I am thinking of trying to make a small bowl out of some of the fire wood that I cut. I may just cut a small section of log, and see what kind of trouble I can get into. I don't have any calipers yet either, so it will just be by eye. All I have made so far, is a small billy club out of a piece of red oak stair rail newell. Didn't do too bad, but I wouldn't buy if I saw it on a table somewhere. ;D Being as how I could do that bad myself. :D :D I am only able to make a little over nine inch wide bowl. It says it's a ten inch, but then state that you can only do a little over nine inches.
But you do some very nice work, both knapping, and turning. Thanks for sharing.
Wayne
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Glad ya like em Joe, you apparently have forgotten how generous you've been to me over the last couple years. I can't tell you how much I value the friendships I've made from the guys on this site and yours is at the top of the that list. Give us a look at that knife when ya get it made up.
Wayne the lathe sounds like a great starter lathe and is exactly the same size as mine. My neighbor is letting me borrow it and a few of the hand tools that go with it. There might be a chance of me buying it in the future but meanwhile I'm having a ball playing around with it. Ive been looking through the woodturner mags dreaming about which tools I need to buy first, but so far I'm just bare bones.