Jewel Tree in action
And here is a picture of the “Jewel Tree” doing its job.
Feel free to comment
Take care,
Morgan
Submitted by: Morgan D.
Jewel Tree
Hello Everyone !!!
Here I post two pictures of a project I had for a friend of mine who makes jewels with pearls.
Thinking about what I could do for her (except turning wooden pearls ;-> ), I thought “what about a jewel-showing item?”.
So I turned this “Jewel Tree”.
The base is a glue-up of two boards of oak, the “trunk” comes from firewood beech, the “branches” are made of two pieces of an elm tree a neighbor gave me last year and the top-hat was turned in a piece of santos rosewood.
The whole piece can be disassembled for market use: the branches are slid in place through the holes and stuck in place by a small rubber fixed to a small hook hidden in the top-hat and the “trunk” has a 4cm-long tenon that fits a mortise (about 1 inch in diameter) on the base.
Originally the “trunk” was designed to be more simple but the wood didn’t let me turn it the way I wanted and I think the base is a little too massive… If I ever do another one, I’ll try to make the “trunk” simpler and the base thinner.
Feel free to tell me what you think of this work, any comment and/or critic is welcome.
Take care,
Morgan
Submitted by: Morgan D.
Firt Time Turning
I was chosen, by ticket, at my first meeting of the Wiregrass Wood Turners, to turn a piece out of the provided wood. I was still in the process of shopping around for a new lathe that me and my son could use. So I purchased a mini lathe and basic tools. I wanted to make a bowl. Now take into consideration, I’ve never turned anything before. All I have done as far as instructions is watch YOUTUBE. I’ve watched all of Carl J’s videos and Capt Eddies video and a few others. I really had no idea what I was doing other that what I seen on these two channels. I went with a lipped bowl because I thought it was a representation of what I would want to use as a cereal bowl. Yeah, I like cereal. The lip would be a good way to keep the bowl from slipping when finishing the last of the milk off. I don’t intend to eat from it, just my idea. The bottom was a result of a “OOPS”. I knocked a hunk out and fixed it by bringing in the bottom at the angle I ended up with. I sanded with 80 grit then to 180 grit and finished sanding with paste wax and polishing on the lathe.
Submitted by: Mike Holland
Lidded Oak Bowl
Second piece turned. All the wood I have is what I got in last couple of months from storm damage we turned into firewood. This one turned out good till it dried over night and the lid was too big to put back on. I accidentally cracked the bowl trying to put the lid on. Recon I’ll glue it back together after it finishes drying and sand around the lip of the lid later. Live and learn. Sanded w/80,180,320 grits and waxed on the lathe.
Submitted by: Mike Holland
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