Walnut Bowl

[Tim Pettigrew]

This began when a large Walnut tree (trunk 700 mm diameter) was felled at a farm near Bovingdon, Herts. The tree was felled and cut up for firewood by tree-surgeons in March-April 2016. I was invited to view the result on the 9th July by which time although some of the wood had degraded, it was still a woodturners paradise with a lot of fantastic pieces. This is what happened to one I salvaged.

Photo 1: Salvaged pieces included the arrowed crotch, as left by the tree surgeons

Photo 2: After careful slicing with a chainsaw

Photo 3: Cutting a bowl-blank using a template on the bandsaw

Photo 4: Mounted on the lathe set to go, held by expansion of 50 mm chuck jaws in drilled recess.
(Concluded in next post)

[Tim Pettigrew]

Continued

Photo 5: After rough turning on 27th April 2017

Photo 6: After drying out (evaluated by weighing), re-mounted on lathe for finishing on 12th October 2017

Photo 7: Top of bowl after sanding, 1 coat of Finishing oil, buffing with Tripoli then White Diamond, applying Micro-crystalline Wax and a final buffing

Photo 8: Ditto for the base

[crazylegs]

lovely, great bit of wood. lucky b..ger.

[Les Symonds]

A stunning piece of flame-crotch, Tim. It never ceases to amaze me that o many tree surgeons fail to appreciate the potential value of the timber that they condemn to the fire wood pile!
Les

[John D Smith]

 
 Hi Tim,
            Fabulous piece of work thank you for sharing the stages of the method you used very informative. A picture is worth a thousand words.

                                      Regards John

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

A stunning piece of flame-crotch, Tim. It never ceases to amaze me that o many tree surgeons fail to appreciate the potential value of the timber that they condemn to the fire wood pile!
Les

If they knew the value Les the price would go up, let's not tell them eh?

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

Tim this is a very nice bowl, beautiful figure and looks to be nicely finished. The WinP was nice too.
Thankyou

[Tim Pettigrew]

Thank you everyone for your kind comments.  Yes that Walnut would all have gone up in smoke if it hadn't been for my wife Trish being a riding friend of the farmer's wife, who happened to mention that they had had a large Walnut tree felled...

[Bryan Milham]

Love the 'Flame' from the crotch,  good save from the firewood pile.