Phoenix Turner

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-thought I'd share a recent piece, with 'Text', quite successful. Ø265 Brown Oak finished with lime wax. (Sorry not a great photo...)

[georg]

             A very nice piece Tom ...... You seem to have found some brown oak with no cracks.
             Tony di

[Les Symonds]

Good looking plate and a nice, clean piece of brown oak. How did you apply the text...it looks to be embossed?

Les

p.s. ... it really would help if you started a new post for each new item that you put on the forum!

[Bryan Milham]

The plate looks great, the lettering looks laser etched or possibly a CNC machine with a small cutter.

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Na Tony, it had a few cracks in, but I've filled them, not too bad though.

Les, it's not embossed, but debossed...

Nothing fancy of Hi-Tech about the lettering production, -think of a really simple way of doing this... like all 'magic' not impressive when you know the trick

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Some recent turnery-

A Walnut NE bow "Old Nail" with 'tall bark' and a lot of super glue, a Box Alder NE bowl, a small Ceder rim bowl and rectangular edged bowl from a piece of ~400 year old beam salvaged from a barn fire.

Old Nail and Burnt Barn Beam Bowl were quite challenging to turn and keep in one piece, but with the aid of about a gallon of super glue worth the effort I think.

Walnut about Ø330 x h230 finished with Danish oil, Box Alder: Ø210 x h260 also finished with Danish oil, Ceder Ø225 x h65 no finish (because of nice smell) and Oak 330 x 200 x h130 wire brushed to accentuate the gain + cellulose sealer finish - N.B. burnt edges were the exterior faces of the beam.

Some WIP and more detail here: 

(New pieces toward album end.)
https://www.facebook.com/466495826726895/photos/?tab=album&album_id=467938433249301

(Old Nail)
https://www.facebook.com/466495826726895/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1124596694250135

Happy turning!

[seventhdevil]

some nice bits tom. really like the nail in the walnut.

by the way, it's spelled box elder. not alder.

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Thanks Steve,

I'm not even 100% sure it's Box Elder, as I've only ever seen this used  by American turners, and I didn't take the tree down myself - which came from Worcester somewhere I believe. Alder/Elder or whatever it is the red is quite vivid, and hasn't faded, since 2012 when I rough turned this!

Cheers.

[fuzzyturns]

It's box elder, which is also called ash-leaved maple, and it's native to North America, which is why you don't see it very often over here. In addition, the red colouring requires infestation by a particular beetle. The beetle causes an injury and the tree responds with the colouration.

This is a beautiful piece, and probably the one I like the best out of the four.

[georg]

      Our favourite Tom  is the Elder Alder....... Having seen the lump you started with its a great choice of shape.
      Tony di

[Bryan Milham]

I've got to go with the last piece, the scorched beam.

The thickness of the square section is perfectly even and the overall effect says 'I've lived a life before this'.

Great bit of turning.

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Thank you for the comments folks, always interesting to hear others views.

I think I marginally like the brunt one over the others, possibly due to it's shape, texture and provenance.

Although the Walnut one 'works' I feel, working within the constraints of the roughed out form - the presence of the nail caused the final shape to be a little different than I would have chosen in it's absence. - would have been bigger diameter at the top, making the curve a larger radius. However I have an interesting feature with the nail which I wouldn't have otherwise. Swings and roundabouts.

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One of the first things that I finished on the new lathe.

Simple Olive Ash OG bowl, lovely figure.

[Bryan Milham]

A very delicate bowl and I agree with you comment on the figure in the wood, stunning.

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A very delicate bowl and I agree with you comment on the figure in the wood, stunning.

Thanks 

A few recents - Laburnum plank bowls, interesting grain in the shallow one.