Project 5 - an interesting lip

This was a blank of dark chocolate coloured wood (unknown variety).
It turned out to be very hard, dry and dense.  Very challenging to turn.

Project 4 - Adding pyrography

This was a half finished blank from my late uncle rex's wood pile.

Project 3 - Nuts and Sweets Bowls

Two Rimu bowls for Christmas Presents 

These bowls were created from a dry block of Rimu that came from my Late uncle Rex

Project 2 - Five Small trinket bowls for kids Christmas presents

This is my first real project.  Making five small bowls for our daughters and nieces for christmas presents from Rimu which has come from their Nanas old loom.  The loom was apparently built in the mid 1970's which means that the wood has been dry for over 40 years so is very dry.

A Jewellery Dish - my first turned piece

This is my first turned piece, a small Jewelry dish.  I’m really happy with how this first experiment on my new lathe (inherited from my late uncle Rex) has turned out.

 

 

 

Lessons Learnt

• Dry Rimu from mums old loom
• Lathe was spinning at 500rpm which felt like a good speed.
• I used 4-5 tools.  A mid-sizd bowl gauge, two small gauges, a couple of scrapers and a couple of skews.
• Tools weren't fully sharp as I had never used them before... only use sharp tools
• Used a skew to cut the internal foot for the chuck to lock onto but couldn't get a perfect corner so the chuck didnt sit perfectly flat and the bowl wasn't spinning true when hollowing out    
• Sanded down to 1200 grit just using sand paper but couldn't sand out fine radial lines.  I quickly discovered why people use sanding disks spinning on drill bits
• Used a Tung oil and mineral mixture
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