{"id":2709,"date":"2019-11-08T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2019-11-08T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T01:46:40","slug":"large-claro-walnut-platter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/large-claro-walnut-platter\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Claro Walnut Platter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Over the summer of 2019 my Dad gave me a large 13″ x 2″ round blank of Claro Walnut. I was intimidated about working with it as it would be the largest blank I had ever taken on. But finally, in early November 2019 I dove in to the challenge and had really nice results.<\/p>\n
Claro Walnut<\/a> and Black Walnut<\/a> are two of my favorite woods to work with. They cut cleanly and finish easily making them ideal for use on the lathe. Although this blank was bigger than any I had tried before, the basics were the same and in the end the only thing that I really noticed to be different was the number of times I had to move my tool rest about to be sure that I was in close contact with the wood. My Robust American Beauty lathe<\/a> can turn objects up to 24″ in diameter, so while this was the largest blank I had worked with it was not quite close to being the biggest that I would work with.<\/p>\n