Jonzjob Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 This is my latest bowl. I found out that it can still bite if you don't treat it with the reverance it deserves. The rough blank bit my little finger!!! The rough blank came from our log pile and there are a lot more good bits in there yet!! Seems a shame to burn bowls like that in my humble opinion??[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Spaltedplatanbowl2.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Spaltedplatanbowl1.jpg[/IMG]Just before that I had made the reading stand in the top photo. It turned out quite pleasing and useful 'cause it stops me bending me por old neck when I am reading. It really is a bugger this getting old(ish)!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Wonderful shape, Jonz: love the grain, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 Cheers mate!! I thought that I had better start this thread incase we were accused of joining the East African pirates, stealing threads [blink]?The most dfficult part was getting under the inside of the rim. I have a set of miniature gouges and they were very handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postie Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Nice one JJ - colouring looks a bit like spalted beech - shape is great too. What dia. did you end up with? Amazing what you find in the wood pile. I found a great piece of burr, just waiting for the opportunity to do something with it.CheersPostie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 So; back to the question, Jonz!How do you hold the work when you turn the top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 Working on the principle of a pikky's worth 1000 worms??[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Lathechucks.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Lathe.jpg[/IMG]The piece is put on the screw chuck to start. The base is turned along with the shape of the underside of the piece, sanded to a shine and polished. I use a Liberon canuba wax stick normally. It gives a good hard finish. A 'dovetailed' recess is turned in the base to mount it on the Axminster scroll chuck to do the top.. Gud 'ere init. The drill mounted at the right hand end of the lathe has a flex drive on it for power sanding. Shock horror I hear the perfectionists saying, but it works and even difficuly pieces that have to be turned a low speed can have a lovely finish easiely..It's an 8 inch diameter and is a piece of spalted platan and it probably came from the side of the Canal du Midi?? A fair amount of our fire wood finishes up on my lathe!![IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/DSC07509.jpg[/IMG]This goblet came from our neighbours in the U.K. It's VERY spalted beech and I wore a good mask to turn it. Those fungus spores can be unfriendly!! It really is fantastic to see what you have when you stop the lathe!My lathe is only a cheepie at about £300, but it works well for what I do. There is about another £300 worth of chucks there too. Lots more in the draw. I was given a set of wonderful pinch chucks made of box wood and brass and about 100 years old. I had to have a special adaptor made for the as the thread is different to the thread on the lathe. When I get chance I will take a photo of them and post it.The lathes I've seen over here are absolute rubbish, but I haven't seen any expensive ones yet? Perhapse they are better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gluestick Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Might be a cheapy, Jonz, but the headstock looks very robust: and the bed tubes are obviously solid and stop chatter.As always of course and as you say, it's the extra bits like chucks that cost.............Nice position in the 'shop, too. Lots of natural light.Aces, Mate!Love the goblet, too: nothing for me like natural grain colours and contrasts.If you could bottle that as hair colourant, the girlies would be queuing down the lane.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 My workshop started out as an abri for 2 cars and I had the doors and windows made and built the wall across the front. It really is a dream for me to have that facility. Good insolation in the roof to keep the summer heat out and it works too.One near miss was that I had the door frame in place and the first row of big French bricks down and realised that my trailor was still in there [:-))]! I had to put ramps over the bricks to get it out!!! It is too big to go out of the door way at any angle!!! Was I ever lucky...[:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 I have done a couple more now from the same sort of wood. The rough log at the back of the bowls is about what the bowls started out as. Fascinating what you can find in a bit of log?[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Spaltedbowls.jpg[/IMG]Now we got lots of bowls for peanuts, etc.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 I had a request from my daughter to make a plate for my youngest grandson similar to one I made for the older borther. At the same time I wanted to make a replacement christening pot for my eldest grandson. The original was lost in a fire that destroyed their flat!![IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/JacobOliversgoodies.jpg[/IMG]The pot is beech with wallnut and the plate is maple. The side walls of the pot are parallel, as near as ?, and are about 1/8th inch thick. A real pig to do!![IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Jacobschristningpot.jpg[/IMG]I really like that mouse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Fantastic stuff, Mr Zjob. I love the look of the spalted timber. But as you say, can be nasty.What finish do you use ? It looks very light.Do you do your own pyrography? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 Why thank you Dick.The outside is polished with a Liberon hard wax stick with canuba (?) wax in it and the inside with Danish oil that the lovely Pads very kindly bought over for me.Yes I do the pyro too, but I must admit that as far as the art work is concerned I cheat. I sort out what I want to use and get it to the size I want using Windowz 2000 Publisher then print out the result. That is then copied onto the piece using black carbon paper (blue leaves marks that are difficult to remove) and pyrograph the print or picture from there. Gud-ere-init [:D]...I use a wire pen, not a solid tip as it's very much easier to control the temp of the burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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