Some Pens

After Three days makin'pen full immersion,
Almost ready for the first pubblic turning exibition on friday,
in a antique and artistic stuff market, friday's event...
So once you get it you must keep place warm,
it's about 130 km far from home,
but if the car work i have no problem walkin it...

I've working on preparing all this stuff,
looking for a plane surfaces where show all my WoodStuff i found it hide in my mansard
a couple of white laminated board...

It's time to look if i can make a woodturning a true profession...

unknow Wood...
really nice to turn...
it's kind of rose literally wood, but it's not...
fantastic brown colour with grey reflection, like dust ash colour..
Hearth is spongy...
Need straight piece...
Wood really hard and Compact, easy to broke at the end when you drilling space to fit brass tube in...

from top left to right...a couple of White Oak, then a couple of Ilex (quercius Ilex)...
Then some resin material,
English Yew, brown malee, river rose..

Sanding till 600..
All finished with CA Glue....three-four coats for all process.....

Cheers
Paolo

Morus

Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, comprises 10–16 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.
 Mulberries are swift-growing when young, but soon become slow-growing and rarely exceed 10–15 m (33–49 ft) tall. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, often lobed, more often lobed on juvenile shoots than on mature trees, and serrated on the margin.

A very good friend of mine, Edoardo, called me becouse he have two truncks of Mulberry..
he is 50 km far from me, and outside is really bad time...
but he say:  today or bye bye..
so i run to...
he already cut the two trunks into pieces, both trunks were 2 meter long and 40 to 30 cm diameter...
so i had just to load all in car...
fantastic...

look at this Wood:

Some of those are already in garage...

This is a couple of box elder (Negundo maple) trunks pieces...
very old plant....i got a call for this as well but from another friend..

cheers
Paolo

lucky day or Not..

i've been really lucky at the end of the past week,

i was turning a 65 cm diameter disk of olive wood,
not one piece of wood but four slabs glued together...

i used alifatic glue for this work, 
first time i used,
i heard that is the most strong glue ever made..

i went to my "mentore" (Guru) Parride and he asked me
why have this work using a glue you never used before..
do you know about it? you are going to work a big piece of wood...however..
i say to him, no problem it is say that is the best..

then i join the four slabs togethere...
i clean the surface of each slab,
try before glued if the faces perfectly aligned, leaving no room for light..
it was ok, so i proced...
wait 30 hours,
i take off clamps, and then i fix it on lathe using 8 screws 
each screwed into the wood for 2 centimeter...

then i used start around 300 rpm,
the first touch 5/8bowl gouge on the wood,
i heard a big "Stuck"..
i took three steps back..
look the piece that still run fast,
nothing...
however i stop the lathe,
and see this:

Alifatic Glue had not worked properly...
or may be i done something wrong..

i was astonished

just a couple of screws have kept all togethere..
just screwy from plate, and the two pieces fallin down..

you could look on the left piece show above...two hole screws

i have to say i was quite idiot to not use this on the surface before glue:

 


and then i have really tight the clamps
and a lot of glue came out....as usally....but may be i used too strong pressed with clamps...
for sure happened that i don't give much time to the glue to go inside wood,
above all the two pieces join togethere in the center,
the other two perimetral pieces glued have around five minuts more of waiting time before join the surface togethere, and in fact it seem they are kept strong togethere..
This olive wood has almost no porus on the surface..
so at the end i give my impression about it...

the main problem i don't give the right time to the glue to going into wood...
second i had to be carefull on the wood surface, that have to be clean and ruled with an iron teeth..
to dubble the surface of contact of the wood...

another things to say, i must know what i'm going to use....
hope you can understand what i'm writing, i try my best to explain in english...



at the really end i have to light a candle for the lucky i had...
i keep on my poket for a while the two screws who saved me...
i'm not feticist, just don't believe in my Memory at all...


i found this piece of "bagolaro", google translation called it "hackberry"..

I'm wondering what can be hide below it
Mushrooms are so many, what they did to the wood, we'll find out in the next episode.....ahah...

Cheers
Paolo

Planewood part two - elm and pirography

This particular Plane Wood gathered is Platanus wrightii...
called also  Arizona Sycamore, also in Spanish Alamo.
Platanus Wrightii is a sycamore tree native to Arizona and New Mexico with its range extending south into Sonora, and a small area of Chihuahua Mexico..

this is the bark:



wood i took had the same bark, just the colours changing, due to musk growing on the surface..
colours inside the tree, i mean the part that was"alive", was light brown tendent to red...
the piece i worked was completly dead, i could almost dig it with my very hands...
I really much love the twists that the fibers of this wood had...
it seem to me like the the plots of spider's web...
if you got opportunity you should to turn this wood...


Spalted Plane Wood,
30 cm X 30 cm....
Around the edge was really spongy,
i do it thin, too thin...using air to clean the piece from dust,
some spongy pieces fligh away around the neck...
Thiswood was amazing,
i'll wait it dry some more,
then i sand it with some paper to clean all the tear wood had,
but spongy wood, may be need to be quite dry to let the sharp gouge do its job
without tear wood..
i just pass on some mineral oil to let colours show..
and i'm really impressive about it...
i been lucky to find it...

                                       this piece need much work more...i'm aware about it.....

black Walnut
it's a fruit bowl,
Wood is really dark with purplish reflection,
it's turned green, thin 1 centimeter more or less,
used carnauba wax for the inside,
hope to keep a little bit from cracking...
35 cm diameter 15 cm tall...

elm bowl
i'm curious about this wood growing...
and how it was cut,
it had just one side of brown hearthwood...

with some Ash
i try to pyrography...
birch forest...

you can look it upworld

or downworld...between their roots

Cheers
Paolo

Sugar Maple - Elder - OliveWood

i care about show the pictures of the latest work,
i'll write about it, time is too short,
...pictures were take with an old digital camera 3.2 Mpx
it still working!!

                                                        
                                                         bowl 21 cm diameter - 11 high

                                                       bowl  28 cm D 12 cm H

                                                                
                                                 

Olive Wood - 14 cm X 13 cm H.

                                                                           Cheers....

Plane Wood part 1

i found this wet spalted plane wood,
i couldn't wait any longer,
even it's still heavy, fresh cut plus two days of rain..

i been really carefull turning such a big piece too,
40 x 39 cm diameter, rough shape..
the first day i work it between centers, at around 200 rpm more or less..
then slowly i increase till 400-450....
i was scared, try to stay out from the line of fire as much as possible,
but i felt i had to turn it, i need somehow to challenge myself,

These days i'm turning a lot,
and gathering the last wood of the season,
becouse next time i'll got it will be from november on...

on the PalneWood piece there were two nests of peaks

                                                            
                                                               remain of the first one

 

                                                                    the second one

 

 

i found some part very spongy, will be hard make nice the surface, i think i need to be really sharp...

Then to relax mind and body i had a small box made with bocote and pear...

Cheers

Oak Cherry and unknowWood

Here a couple of bowl made using a seasoned Oak,
It's been hard turn it, but took really good silky finish with wax...
both are around 18 cm diameter, 7 cm high...



Then i join three piece of Local seasoned Cherry,
and made a plate around 78 cm diameter...
i just have one piece of cherry with yellow sapwood,
i decide to use that slab in the middle...

The first thing came to mind after finish the plate was that i could have used some 2 mm thick veneers to separate the three cherry slabs...
I used yellow glue to join the slabs.

a Cherry Bowl

then payed a visit a good friend of mine,

But cool things also happened,
i found a big already cut Tree of.....????
i really can't identify...
i just associate the Wood, its colour to what i see on Web.....
i found in this amazing site some of similar,
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/pink%20flamewood.htm..
it's called flamewood...
The wood i got is fresh cut,
i don't know if would keep it its colours...

                                the middle piece show in this picture is black poplar, cut near the origin...
                           Must have some starting burls figure on it....i suppose...i hope above all...
                                       This is the first run to home....i had four more...

in the fray i took a couple of plane wood logs as well,
inside of these planeWood logs is completely spongy, with some black line here and there....
the wood's weight is unbelieveble, reallly soft,
i'll take a picture of that wood as soon as i get back the camera...
and some pear and Oak..

Cheers
Paolo