Tazmaniandevil
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Yesterday, I finally plucked up the courage to mount that lump of elm on the lathe. I was a bit scared in case I wrecked it completely. It was a big old lump of timber, and I was worried in case I ended up with little more than a spinning top.
It gave me a fair workout right through.
I also got a chance to use my new sanding arbour. It fairly takes the ouch out of sanding bowls.
Pretty near the documented limits of the lathe I believe. I chainsawed it into a near circle at a little over 300mm.
Turned the outside leaving as many of the faults, flaws & fissures as I could. Gave it a wipe with sanding sealer before flipping it around.
The overall height is about 75mm and I tried to keep the thickness as near to 20mm as I could. Nice and chunky.
It has now had 3 coats of melamine lacquer.
This will take pride of place in our kitchen holding fruit. I am fairly pleased with it, seeing it is the largest thing I have turned and a difficult piece of wood into the bargain.
It gave me a fair workout right through.
I also got a chance to use my new sanding arbour. It fairly takes the ouch out of sanding bowls.
Pretty near the documented limits of the lathe I believe. I chainsawed it into a near circle at a little over 300mm.
Turned the outside leaving as many of the faults, flaws & fissures as I could. Gave it a wipe with sanding sealer before flipping it around.
The overall height is about 75mm and I tried to keep the thickness as near to 20mm as I could. Nice and chunky.
It has now had 3 coats of melamine lacquer.
This will take pride of place in our kitchen holding fruit. I am fairly pleased with it, seeing it is the largest thing I have turned and a difficult piece of wood into the bargain.
=D> 
