This is the other half of the first cedar bowl. (9" x 3 1/2"). It was finished with only the Beall Bowl Buffing System (tripoli->white diamond->carnauba wax). So the color is much lighter that the previous bowl, and the surface is a little smoother and very polished.
I eventually decided to oil this bowl with Walnut oil. (July 7, 2014) Quite different.
Turned the same way as the Ash salt cellars. The log was mounted between centers (bark to bark), turned into a yoyo shape with tenons on each end, cut in half, etc, and finished with the Beall Bowl Buffing System.
(Dia = 3")
Salt Cellars from an Ash Log
The piece of log was mounted between centers, a tenon was cut on each end. After mounting in the 4 jaw scroll chuck the overall shape was turned; then the resulting "yoyo" was cut in half and each half mounted separately so the insides could be tuned away. These were finished using the Beall Bowl buffing system (tripoli->white diamond->carnauba wax).
(Diameter = 3 1/4")
The old growth cedar lumber (10" x 10" x 34") piece was a gift from Roger Heinen. A 10" cube was cut off one end and turned between centers. Two bowls were turned from that piece by turning tenons on each end and parting the partially turned bowls approximately 2/3 x 1/3 from the ends. This is the bigger bowl. ( 9 1/2" x 4 1/2" ). It was "wet" sanded with walnut oil + carnauba wax (from Doctor's Woodshop http://www.doctorswoodshop.com/) through all the grits out to 1200.
Gave this bowl to Luigi and Anna as a wedding present.
An ash bowl (2" x 6 1/2") was turned form a firewood log and polished using the Beall bowl buffing system. I gave this bowl to Terry Wuori, who gave me the firewood log.
This bowl was turned from a locust 4 x 4 given to me about 40 years ago by my brother Reid.
The blank was cut from a 4 x 4 and trimmed to get rid of the pith:
Started between centers and turned a tenon and reverse mounted it to cut out the inside:
All done: and buffed using the Beall Bowl Buffing system starting with
red tripoli and white diamond compound and finishing with carnauba wax: a three step process using three 2" buffing wheels mounted on an extension that
fits the threads on the headstock.
Multiple views showing various "features" revealed while turning.
From a firewood log that was a gift from Terry Wuori.
Bowl #1
Bowl #2 (a little bit taller)
Cherry Goblet:
Used the termite to cut the end grain.
Gave this to Preston Hensley as a thank-you for getting me started turning.
Not bad for what might have been burned! (The apple log was a gift from Terry Wuori)
Finished with walnut oil. (3" x 8")
Small "box" – started out to be a shaving soap dish, but it seems too nice for that.
Finished with Walnut oil. (3" x 5 1/2")
Another cherry pot turned from the other half of the cylinder used to turn Reid and Jewell's pot
01/08/2013
(D 3 1/4" x H 2 1/2") Finished with walnut oil.
Given to Reid and Jewell Hausmann
Box from cherry (4" x 6") finished with walnut oil. This bowl also was cut from the cherry plank about 24" x 48" x 4" that was a gift from Dave and Betty Almstrom of Meredith NH.
I gave this box to Reid and Denise Stafford for Christmas.
Cherry bowl (finished with walnut oil 7 1/2" x 2 1/2") turned from the cherry from the David and Betty Almstrom, Merideth, NH
I gave this bowl to Connie and Walter for Christmas.
Still in its happy home in 2016:
Cherry box (3 3/4" x 3 3/4")
This bowl also was cut from the cherry plank about 24" x 48" x 4" that was a gift from Dave and Betty Almstrom of Meredith NH. I gave it to them as a thank-you.
I had a short rod of Lucite (about 1.5 x 4 inches) kicking around and decided to see if it could be turned into a shaving brush. Lucite is very prone to catches and had to be turned in the scraping rather than the cutting mode. (I found that out by trial and error, and that is partly why the final diameter was somewhat smaller than the rod I started with 🙂 )
I had to cut some small pieces of wood to hold the rod in the 4 jaw chuck because its diameter was a little smaller than my smallest chuck setting.
The four pieces of wood became fused to the Lucite which had apparently partly melted from friction when I got one of the catches.
This shows the leftover piece of the rod after I had parted off the finished piece. The whole brush was as rough as the conical surface before sanding and polishing.
And this is what I ended up with after sanding through the grits (80-1500) and then polishing with a 3 part Lucite polishing compound while it was on the lathe. The bristles were glued in with CA gel (cyanoacrylate, super glue):
bottom view:
The lilac was a gift from John Kauer from a lilac bush that he had felled in his yard.
(I want more, John.)
Four views:Â (8″ x 2.5″)
(The middle two images are a stereo pair.)
Really nice white sap wood and nice spalting in the heart wood.
This bowl was cut from a cherry plank about 24″ x 48″ x 4″ that was a gift from Dave and Betty Almstrom of Meredith NH.
After sanding through the grits (80 -> 1500), it was treated with four coats of Mahoney’s walnut oil and hand buffed.
Several views of the finished bowl: (6 3/4″ x 3 3/4″). The red color of the wood reminded
me of clay and so I left it thick to give it a “pottery” look and feel.
From the birch log that was a gift from Gilbert Rivera (see below) over a year ago. Finished with Mahoney’s Walnut Oil/Wax. (4″ x 9  3/4″)
Several cracks had developed and were filled with  West System epoxy and sawdust and CA glue. Sanded with Abranet non-clogging sanding sheets (P-80, 120, 180, 240, 320, 400, 600 grit) and finished off with a 3M microfine sanding pad/sponge before applying Mahoney’s Oil/Wax finish.
From a tree in the woods next to the house cut down several years ago.
Ash log. Â Â (4″ x 2.5″)
Started with a piece of the log from which I made the salad forks:
 Tapered and rounded off:
From a piece of firewood ripped on the band saw, turned on the lathe and shaped on the belt sander. Don’t know what kind of wood it is. (13″ x 2 1/4″)
