{"id":1389,"date":"2016-01-13T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2016-01-13T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:34:49","slug":"ambrosia-maple-platter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/ambrosia-maple-platter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambrosia Maple Platter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I purchased a large piece of kiln-dried Ambrosia Maple from a favorite supplier recently. I wanted something kiln-dried so that I didn’t have to worry about drying the piece after rough green-turning. It is rare to find a piece this large, 10″ x 2″ in the round that is kiln-dried. Drying such large pieces is time-consuming and difficult so I was lucky to find it. This particular supplier, GotWood?<\/a>, located nearby in South Carolina, offers a very wide range and selection of species and sizes, all cut to round, of domestic hardwoods native to the southern United States. Like most wood suppliers, the majority of their stock is sold green, but practically unique to them as supplier, they also sell a nice selection of kiln-dried woods as well. I highly recommend them.<\/p>\n Turning this platter presented no new challenges aside from the sheer size of it. But, even though the size was considerably larger than the work I have done before, the only different technique required was to move the tool rest back and forth a bit more because it was too small to reach all of the piece. And, the height of the piece meant that I couldn’t always move my tool rest in as close as I would like to because the base of the tool rest would come into contact with the blank that was reaching so much further down towards the bed of the lathe than is usually the case.<\/p>\n