Woodturning Materials
So, what can you use as a wood turning material? The better question is, what CAN’T you use! The wood lathe can certainly be used to create objects from most any wood you can imagine, and probably a fair amount of woods you have never heard of much less imagined. But the possibilities don’t stop there. I also use acrylic plastics, deer antler, water buffalo horn, off-cuts from Corian counter tops, corncobs (no, really, I swear), wood composites, and even custom made pens with items encased in special polymers that allow you to do decoupage-like items. One can even rescue the shavings from today’s bowls to make tomorrow’s pens through a process named by its creator, Phoenix Pens. Really, the only limitation is your imagination.
It took some time and some patience to hollow this one out but I think the effort was repaid. The bowl does, unfortunately, have a check in the side …
But it was more important that Camphor turn well in addition to smelling nice and it certainly did turn nicely! Camphor is relatively soft so it cut incredibly easy …
The thing is that aside from the end grain lift, which is best removed by locking the lathe and doing some quick focused sanding, Mulberry makes an excellent turning …
Wood_Pens May 17, 2020 Wood for Grinding Mills, Wood Lathe Tools, Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Lathes, Wood Turning Supplies, Wood Turning Tools, Wood Turning Wood, Wooden Bowl Blanks, Woodturning Materials On paper, some of the Hickory data suggest that it should be brilliant as a turning wood, especially because, in its pignut form, it is the 10th hardest of …
The finish on this piece varies from my usual go-to Shellawax. Shellawax, while my favorite, is a disaster on soft absorbent woods. It goes on blotchy and uneven and …
Wood_Pens May 16, 2020 Wood for Grinding Mills, Wood Lathe Tools, Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Lathes, Wood Turning Supplies, Wood Turning Tools, Wood Turning Wood, Wooden Bowl Blanks, Woodturning Materials This blank shows a great deal of the common silvery blue fungal staining. It is almost impossible to keep Holly pristine white unless it is cut in the winter …
The first thing I noticed about the Almond was how dense it was, heavy for the volume. And it was clearly hard as well as it took some effort …