Boxelder burl

Wood of this Boxelder burl came from a death standing tree.
Most spectacular grain i ever seen,
i couldn't do that much but cylinder and dig...
i had stopped lathe like ten times, every two-tree millimeters of cutting wood,
just to look the grain's pattern
Choose this one, with some empty space....
i could have cut more wood when i was cylindering untill find all wipe surface without any difect..
i think just a couple of centimeter less in diameter and i could have got it.
but that's what i like in the wood i choose, is the imperfection, where grain is sort of chaotic traffic... what i do not like often is that this imperfection could change the profile of the piece,
so i have to care about imperfection, try to see since the log which Difect are better than others..

I Like to show difect in the wood i worked,
usually i keep a little bit of bark, or just above it, on the piece surface..
















first piece is 35 x 19 cm large

 

 

Second piece...
forgot the size...
i'll tell ya..

 

 

 

To achieve this murbling finish i sand till 600 g.
Then i use some abrasive paste polish, rubbed on the lathe in motion, And then hard Carnauba wax rubbed as well while the lathe rotate. Couple of coats.

the previous work instead is finish with tree coats of pure vaseline oil, dense, no smell, no coloring...just to take out less invasive the colors of the wood...wait till everything is dry and clean. Then again abrasive paste and carnauba wax.
unfortunatly i couldn't do this second step on the first piece, coz i couldn't use "buffed machine"..
i finish it with soft carnauba wax...
much more less murble effect. need to be buffed.





i have other that came from this log,
but i couldn't resist to show the first two work...


Cheers
Paolo

Juniper crotch

This wood has a really great smell,
i turned without using any respirator protection..
not good to say that, but just once in a while...fresh wood = few dust
If you'll been lucky to find this wood you must take it.
Need to be looked into carefully, usually has strange growth, branches could be grow splitting then join each other again and the bark growing around could hide all this..
my english is still poor.....hope you got what i mean..

finish with a hand of vaseline oil, wait a couple of days, sanded with iron woolen then beeswax buffed....

 

 




Cheers

Paolo

Multiaxes Turning On Juniper

Hi, been a while since last post, i never stopped turning and still gathering different wood species all around as well, in fact
i collected a lot of wood, some different kind of prunus, Cercis siliquastrum again too, some olivewood from Center italy, and some new species ready to be worked and identify.
 I had gleaned too much wood, placed anywhere in the lab...
Not Good work surrounded drowned by wood and dust...

By the way this is the result obtained from get into the processing of multi-axis turning. But...
First things first, i definetly have to thank Barbara Dill who have made a great video shared on youtube in which she explain perfectly first steps of multiaxes woodturning. This piece is dedicated to her, and her will to share knowledge to everybody. I'd like to remember from whom i took from..

 

 This is a small.... 15 x 6 it's been turned on Four axis, one ax is in the center, and the other three are 120° from each other 2 cm distant from the center one. Wood is Juniper and it's wonderfull. The smell all around made me work without using respirator stuff antidust...yeah..
 Juniper all life along.















Then i got lucky becouse i walk just the right time the right place where some Yew been clean for good. Incredible stuff, small branches around 6-7 cm diameter old more than 50 years! Then some hundread years pieces of yew showed on my eyes, just 10 cm diameter...so old...so tenacious would be....This wood have to get justice...i have to think well what doing with it...
after a few attempts on hackberry I decided to work on those fancy yew wood...

  First one. 12 cm 5 cm

  II. 9.5 cm 5.5 cm

                   III. 13 cm 5.5cm

  IV. 18cm 5cm

  V. My favorite. Amazing wood.

                                                                       "a Gang"

                                                better: "The Yew Band" feat Juniper MC Wood

ain't that something

Cheers

Paolo

Woodturner Rendezvous in Viterbo

On days 4 & 5 October there was a meeting between Turners in Viterbo,
at Mala Spina School....http://www.scuoladellegno.it/it/chi-siamo/
where men named Giacomo and Vasco were hosts of a mass of Gipsy Turners from all Italy..
With AIATL, Giacomo and Vasco organized a great event with the participation of distributors of equipment for turning, wivamac lathe, Vicmarc lathe,
and related turners who performed live demonstrations:
i had really a pleasure of knowing Jackie Ferla Tuiniuijk from Belgium
www.houtdraaier.be.
Distributor of fine woods were there too, and i got some pau violetto having in mind some jewelry projects and a piece of macassar ebony destinated on a pen project..
Two days flew away in a istant,
a lot of talkin' and turning, a fun every single moment,
part of a tribe of eternal youth,
....
like him, the Captain Vittorio:

I'm a member of AIATL, italian association of woodturner.
And on sunday morning Roberto Cecconello, the president had a speech,
which dealt with topics such as creating their own roots,
because in Italy the art of turning wood is a new matter,
he talked about a way to perform our own Art through observation of what is around us and reworking all this putting your own personal touch, which is made of our personal history and feeling.




Thanks to a Lady names Kitty Pierart was installed an exhibition of the works of the members of the association AIATL.

 Michelangelo

 Pietro, Michele Monaci, Michelangelo

 Michele Monaci



 Roberto Cecconello

 Richard Coter

 Giacomo Malaspina


Now some random pictures there and here...





     here while i'm tring have a sandblasted surfice effect by using a steel weel brush mounted on a drill.









 

Cheers

Paolo