Woodturners Resource

Champagne_top_2

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:57:41 +0000

by: Jim King

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Champagne_base

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:57:19 +0000

by: Jim King

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Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:49:20 +0000

by: Jim King

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Covered plate

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:34:31 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: I guess this is a big butter dish or a very small cake plate. The wood is Dalmatian and the size is 11? in dia. X 6 ? tall. This wood turns like steel , it is possible to get perfectly square details such as the inside cover lip over the plate lip. The finial is large as I try to make everything I turn useful for something, I call it a handle.

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Christmas tree

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:21:04 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: This inside out turning is 44 inches tall including the angel and a maximum of 10 inches in dia. at the base. The tree is made of Blood wood , the base Black Ipe and the angel is a small inside out turning of Remo Caspi with a Vegetable Ivory carved head with tree bark blond hair. The icicles are fiberglass resin mixed with flour let to run down the tree. For an idea of size the frosted glass inside with the candle is a beer glass.

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Beer Cooler

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:23:34 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: Covered Beer Cooler This is made of about 86 pieces of kiln dried ? and ? inch thick glued up scrap boards. The wood is Red Dalmatian , much harder than Blood wood. The size is 56 inches tall and the largest dia. is the covered bowl being 16 ? ?. The base inside out turning is 24? tall x 8? at the widest point. The final, another inside out turning is 3 ? inches in dia. X 12 ? tall. The finish is floor polyurethane and in a couple of weeks will be buffed to a high shine. 7 days of work as with our car spring tools it was necessary to sharpen each every 5 minutes due to the hardness of the wood.

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What would you call it ?

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:53:00 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: Now that we made it we dont know what to call it. The sizes are 46 inches tall. Bowl dia. Is 10 inches, the inside out turning base is 7 ? inches in dia.. In total 9 different pieces of wood. We were looking for something new to try so decided on the inside out turning and added from there to end up with what ever it is. Wally , the man from England that works with us glued it up and we used hose clamps also for security and our apprentice turner in the photo did the turning and finishing. Three full days of work after the last inside out turning glue up. The wood is Red Dalmation.

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Red Dalmation Wood

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:40:47 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: This is another photo taken several weeks ago of three covered bowls and the packaging. This type averages from 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Next week I am trying and will post some new and interesting styles

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Pink Flame Wood

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:17:38 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: This is made from a log slice and turned down to about 1/4 inch thck. If I remember correctly it was about 16 inches in dia. I thought people may enjoy seeing a rare wood.

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Turning termite nests

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:27:53 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: This bowl is about 12 inches in dia and turned out of a termite nest stabilized with fiberglass resin. Thousands of those little white beasts encased as if in amber.More experiments to come. It looks like marble.

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Black_Agate2

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:44:28 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: This is a black agate 10 inch dia covered bowl. Same drying and processing procedure as shown with the Red Dalmation double bowl peice yesterday.

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Double Bowl

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:20:09 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: This is a five peice double bowl of Red Dalmation Wood. Size 19 inches tall by 9 inches in dia. Rough turned, boiled several hours, air dried about 5-6 weeks in the open shop to about 20 % MC and then into the kiln to below 5%. Finish turned and finished with high gloss floor polyurethane. A couple weeks later wet sanded with 1000, water and soap and buffed with a cotton rag and car buffing compound.

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Brazil nut shells

Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:50:46 +0000

by: Jim King

Description}: These are Brazil nuts , hard as stone, they look a bit like marble when turned. This is a 3 peice box set . The wood inbetween is black Ipe. Size 19 inches tall by 3.75 in dia at largest point.

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