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Powder Keg:
Hey Everyone,

I'm still alive and all is good. I ended up getting a new to me lathe. It's an old Delta Rockwell variable speed wood lathe. I can't stay off it:o) I started gathering green wood and scraps to make stuff out of. Bowls have been my interest here lately. These were made out of a piece of dry Juniper that my wife wanted me to toss in the trash.



One of the members in my wood turning club gave me a piece of Box Elder burl. I made 2 bowls out of it. This lidded box.



And this bowl. Notice the red stripes. Box elder is about the only tree that does that.



Here it is all finished up next to an apricot goblet that I turned.



I was given a piece of box Elder that one of the guys had turned a green rough bowl out of. I turned it round and sanded it a little and came up with this. It's pretty big at 10" in diameter.





I'll post more later:o)

Take care,

~Wes~

dsquire:
Wes

Real nice work there. Wood turning can be very addictive, you can't stop with just one. Thanks for sharing them with us.  :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

Don

 

Powder Keg:
I was given a few pieces of green cedar that was cut down by the local power company.



Some pretty wood inside those logs for sure!







There was a giant piece of that cedar in the little pile that I gathered.



I layed it out a little and trimmed it up a little.



A friend in the wood turning club has a big home made wood lathe. I went over to his place and set everything up.



There was a bunch of wood turned into chips on this one! It cleaned up at 14" in diameter. After I had the outside cleaned up I started in on the insides.





Over all I am pretty happy with this one. There are a couple bark inclusions that will need to be fixed. The smaller green bowls I boil in water for an hour or so and dry inside paper sacks to help reduce the cracking of the green wood as it dries. This one was way too big for me to do that. I packed it in cedar chips and double bagged it so it would dry really slow. So far it is drying good. I peeked last weekend:o)

~Wes~

vtsteam:
Great looking bowls Powder Keg. I never thought of box elder as anything but a weed tree before, it grows like crazy here. Now I know different!

That cedar must have smelled nice.

Great stuff!  :thumbup:

Powder Keg:
Three weeks ago or so I made a set of Walnut Ice cream bowls. They are 3" in diameter.





I also made this one out of Walnut.



All this wood work has been kind of fun and relaxing for me. I don't have to worry about tolerances or nothing. A lot of the time when I start a piece I really don't know what it will look like when I get done. But sometimes I do. I made a set of bowls for my wife for our 18th wedding anniversary. They are maple and pretty close to the same:o)





Thanks for watching,

~Wes~

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