Wood turning
Feb. 3rd, 2007 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revchrisI did about half of the ceiling of my side of the garage in plastic, and then was tired of climbing around the garage, so I got out the lathe to start playing. Eventually I'll finish the ceiling, which should make it a little easier to heat the garage (we'll see - it's still a fairly large area).
I started with a chunk of apple.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
misteropinion did some tree trimming on our folks' orchard, but then left all the pieces laying around their yard. Dad pile them up so they were out of the way, but since misteropinion hasn't picked them up (he was going to use them for smoking), we took most of the large diameter pieces to play with on the lathe. I made a small bat from a section of log. Right now it's in a paper bag full of shavings drying out on the table in the living room. Eventually I'll have to put it back in the lathe and clean it up. hopefully it won't check to badly. We're probably going to give it to either my dad or teeka's dad as a fish bat, but that will depend on how it turns out (and whether I decide to make more).
Then I loaded in some 1.5" square oak stock and made a couple of beads. They mostly served to tell me how I need to regrind the tooling that came with the lathe in order to make it easier to do the turning I want to.
Tomorrow I may mount a large-diameter chunk of apple on the flat plate and try roughing in a bowl.
I started with a chunk of apple.
misteropinion did some tree trimming on our folks' orchard, but then left all the pieces laying around their yard. Dad pile them up so they were out of the way, but since misteropinion hasn't picked them up (he was going to use them for smoking), we took most of the large diameter pieces to play with on the lathe. I made a small bat from a section of log. Right now it's in a paper bag full of shavings drying out on the table in the living room. Eventually I'll have to put it back in the lathe and clean it up. hopefully it won't check to badly. We're probably going to give it to either my dad or teeka's dad as a fish bat, but that will depend on how it turns out (and whether I decide to make more). Then I loaded in some 1.5" square oak stock and made a couple of beads. They mostly served to tell me how I need to regrind the tooling that came with the lathe in order to make it easier to do the turning I want to.
Tomorrow I may mount a large-diameter chunk of apple on the flat plate and try roughing in a bowl.
