Small bowl/plater

[Dalboy]

Small bowl/plater call it what you like I had a round of spalted beech which started at 9 1/2" X 2" and ended up 7 1/2" X 1". It was so near the point as being firewood not that wood this soft in places would be any good on the fire. Whilst turning it I had to keep applying sander sealer to help with stabilizing it.

Anyway i persevered and this was the result

C & C welcome

 

[procell]

Nice figuring from the spalting worth the extra effort

 

[CHJ]

Good rescue, it's always interesting chasing some spalting, not easy holding turning tools with fingers crossed.

One of many pieces we have all experienced that ended up somewhat smaller than intended, but at least you managed to salvage a pretty little piece out of it.

I had the pleasure of hefting a very large log that had been generously donated to me onto the bandsaw a couple of days ago.
Neighbour now has another bag of firewood, cotton wool sections had found their way into the most inconvenient areas leaving little short of a few pen blanks. :twisted:

 

[Paul.J]

Well worth the effort Del as it's showing some nice spalting nicely done

 

[woodfarmer]

Good rescue, it's always interesting chasing some spalting, not easy holding turning tools with fingers crossed.

One of many pieces we have all experienced that ended up somewhat smaller than intended, but at least you managed to salvage a pretty little piece out of it.

I had the pleasure of hefting a very large log that had been generously donated to me onto the bandsaw a couple of days ago.
Neighbour now has another bag of firewood, cotton wool sections had found their way into the most inconvenient areas leaving little short of a few pen blanks. :twisted:

Yes that "polystyrene" that replaces wood can be areal nuisance. I had an oak fork which I hoped would make a 14-16" bowl. Ended up at about 9".
The platter is lovely to look at, I tried making one from The top inch I chainsawed off the walnut bowl I started as splits were fanning out from the pith. The bowl has split badly but the pith and crude platter have survive quite well. The bowl needs help to survive.

 

[winemaker]

nice

 

[Dalboy]

Thank you all. It was fun doing this I knew when I started that I was going to lose at least 1/2" to 1" on the diameter but it went just that bit more. Well the up side is I still have about 7 more pieces of it left to turn from 6" up to 8" diameter and ranging from 2" to 2 1/2" thick, these all came from to slabs of spalted beech that I payed the total sum of £4 for both He originally wanted £3 each.

First piece side 1

First piece side 2

Second piece side 1

Second piece side 2