Metasequoia

Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, critically endangered deciduous tree, sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, and one of three species of conifers known as redwoods. It is native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China. Although shortest of the redwoods, it grows to at least 200 ft (61 m) in height



This Wood i got today should be a Metasequoia glyptostroboides,
seem to me that this tree has grown a lot in a hurry,

Back Home i was too curious have just a glance of what its hide inside...
Really Wet,
First time i Turned so Wet Wood,
It's really cool.....

Sin while turning Tool rest move with the workpiece in motion
just a little bit touch it and the edge crushed.


i couldn't resist today to take some Elm Wood...

and pity for the "Robinia" or False Acacia...
because those cracks did not convince me at all..

After a Week:

Cheers
Paolo

Olive Wood

i start Febrary with some Olive Wood,
i have to thanks a man name Emilio from Marradi (FI),
and Christian from Ancona, who gave me this Spectacular Wood..


almost all of my work i do with bowl gouge,
1/2" and 3/8", 5/8"
10, 13 e 16 mm

i do almost everything with those gouge....
i have some fo them, each with its own angle...


Here the pieces...:


4 febrary 2013
19 cm Diameter
12 cm High

piece 2 febrary 2013
21 cm Diameter
10,5 cm High
5 cm hole

                                    I can Say this is the most spectacular piece i made till now



piece 1 febrary 2013
15 cm diameter
8 cm high

piece 1 febrary 2013
13 cm diameter
16 cm High

       
                                                      

Cheers..

Cherry and Purplehearth

It's wanderfull turning cherry,
The smell, the arrogance of the fiber,
the hardest knob i found till now it was cherry one.
often make jump my gouge...

The purplehearth pieces is bigger then the hollow cherry,
to force to push the purple entered....

is 19 cm diameter, 11 cm high...

Cheers

Wood Box

Box made by Box Elder, Wengè and Scotano Wood
it's 13 cm high, for 13 large...

Cheers,

Paolo

The Good Earth

It's Maple,
Grow in the appennino reason, behind my door...

it's 48 cm large, for 33 Wide and 23 cm high with the base...
The base is Holly Wood...Quercis gender...

 

 

Cheers
Paolo

laburnum

i'll add some more picutre of the pices i made on lathe along the time, when i'll got some more kind Wood


Laburnum, commonly called golden chain, is a genus of two species of small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are Laburnum anagyroides—common laburnum and Laburnum alpinum—alpine laburnum. They are native to the mountains of southern Europe from France to the Balkan Peninsula


It was a man name Sbuccino, who ave me this larrnum pieces,
This wood in laburnum alpinum which is more bright then the anagyroides kind, tendenciosly balck..
Here in Italy we call it "Falso Ebano", false ebano wood, becose is color changin with sun oxidation into a black chocolate. Rally Good Wood.

Here the contropart, it's color tending to the yellow-green...brown king...

this pieces i turned was 20 cm large for 10 high..

Cheers

Paolo

Thuya Occidentalis

Thuja occidentalis is an evergreen coniferous tree, in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is native to the North east of the United States and the South east of Canada, but widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.

^{This pieces of wood came closed to Brescia, grow around 700 m.s.l. in the Pre-Alps Reason.
It has spectaclar contrast between sapwood and heartwood .
This pieces are arond 20 cm large for 18 and 12 cm high,
This wood have to look careflly before pt on the lathe,
i found often a crack pieces going inside really into it,
which easoly could explode while trning,
if you got some distraction point...}

 

Cheers,
Paolo