Thinness

Hi,
it's been a while,
this thing of markets keep me quite busy,
i need to find more street place,
and i need to improve how to show my stuff...
i bought a cuople of aluminum frames for 30 euro each,
i was lucky to find a good man that wanted to get rid of this frames...

i fix above car, they are really light...
But summer is up to the door,
and wood need a bit of shodow, 
so i have to think about some gazebo...
 
However seemed i have to do a library for a customer,
230 cm large - 207 high...
will be in fir...
3...3,5 cm thickness..


Today after a while i put a piece of Metasequoia glyptostroboides on run,
try to do really thin,
it's around 2mm but it have rough surface..
The fiber....it's a conifers...need to be really sharp....
enjoy a lot, but everything must to be clean at the end...

i got a couple of new place where make street market,
we will see how is going,
sure you have to show if you want to keep alive your work...

Cheers

Paolo...

Chase White Rabbit...

it's pity people i met when i was on market haven't send me yet pictures they took for me...
i forgot everytime PhotoCamera at home...
Soon i let you know how i'm organize street market with pictures...


Finally i got a pictures...

i almost no turn for about two week and hands are starting to itch...
i just have to show a couple of pieces i made while i was on street market...

i sold something, but becouse i had to raze price...
i mean a big black walnut bowl (35x12 cm) sold for 30 euro...instead of 60 that was its price in the start...and i thought it was good already..
But 30 euro or back home on Foot...

Funny Things was i could have sold maybe hundread of small lathe to the people who had stopped lookin' at me when i was turning in MarketStreet......
at least 50 people asked me if i had on mind to sold my small lathe...
That make me think a lot...

by the way, i really enjoy be on street...
turning open space it's perfect, even if the surrounding distracts me a lot indeed...
a couple of small pieces flew away from lathe...
but i had plexliglass protection for who are lookin' at...

i'd like to show you a piece of yew i worked some time ago,
and a couple of piece i made on street demostration...

 

that is BoxWood and Cocobolo...

this last time I watched some work of Ben Grant from AAW

and i like it

try to do something inspired by his work...

                                                           I contrasts greatly this photo

 

Cherry

 

That is penCase i made by OliveWood and Wenge

I'm still Follow a Dream...I can see White Rabbit tail!
Hope back Soon..
Cheers

Paolo

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....