Cracks, Cracks and More Cracks! Wood Turning

good morning good afternoon good evening us we like to say here at Shady Acres wood shop howdy today I have a piece of manzanita I really really really want to say manzanita root but that's not quite true I talked to Tuffy Martinez who sent this to me and he tells me this was the very very bottom of the tree with some roots attached and you can see some you can see some small roots in here I suppose it went this way I suppose that's the top but it's gonna be our bottom so if that's the top then maybe these are roots going down looks like looks like quite likely huh and these would be branches coming up I guess anyway it's a gorgeous piece and I just can't wait to turn it the reason that's going to be the bottom is because of the the natural shape of this piece you know you can see it curves up like a ball so this will be our top what I am going to do is go trim off this piece and this piece otherwise they're just gonna hit the chisel bang bang bang every time they come around and they're gonna get trimmed off anyway just in in making a bowl shape so I might as well do it early after I trim it off at the bandsaw then I'm gonna drill a 5/16 inch hole in here someplace for my wood worm screw we'll get it mounted up on the lathe and we'll get to turn in this manzanita I can't wait I tried to keep the trimming to a minimum to maximize the nature in this piece so the trimmings done on the bandsaw I've got it mounted up on a wood worm screw with tailstock support the best I can do is about 580 rpm I'm gonna start by flattening off the bottom however when Tuffy cuts these and he cuts these with a handsaw cuts him by hand and he does such a nice job the top and the bottom are parallel so there's not there's not a lot of difference over here there's like no difference over here they're parallel top and bottom that that's such a work saver for me and it's such a material saver we don't we don't have to waste away an in - trying to get to a flat spot so that's really nice good job Jeff good job I've got my five-eighths inch Bowl gouge all sharpened up 580 rpm mask and face shield on Wow the reason I'm flattening this off at all is to try and get a large enough area for a tenon and I wanted to use my larger jaws this is my smaller jaws that's the size for them yeah I just feel better with the larger jaws on there that's just a little too small so that means I have to go up higher to find a wider spot this would be about two and 1/8 and I need about 3 and 1/8 so I'll just keep working at it oh I have to go up higher you know I'm gonna just to give myself a break I'm gonna go up the corner here go up the side aways I'm hoping that'll give me a break I don't know I'll give it a try use the other side of the gouge anyway I'm also gonna put a glove on that hurts that's sharp little step coming off of there I've said that before this is the hardest piece of wood I've ever turned that was on different pieces I think this might be the winner I'm going to go sharpen up whoo am i getting anywhere I guess I am beat already I have this bigger hit still a 5/8 inch and it's a swept back gouge but it's longer and heavier not very sharp I guess I'll have to go sharpen it up maybe I'll try this maybe I'll try it before I sharpen it and see see how it does I just got to try something else that's all [Music] well I'm liking it not liking the work but I'm liking the outcome okay I'm gonna go put a fresh edge on here this seems to be working pretty well I've been avoiding that because I have to change my setup but that's okay I'll be back 1100 rpm you you let's take a beating man that sharpening up I don't think there's any such thing as shear scraping this piece I'm not sure I can even scrape it at all with high speed steel definitely the hardest wood have ever turned [Music] my Francis Bacon but I don't have my phone you Oh certainly better than I ever imagined holy cow Tuffy you really sent me a Lula with this one buddy well it actually shares great pretty well I'm not sure this is the right tool to do this lower part maybe I'm gonna have to move me though you're a little bit in my way I mess with the standard grime trying to make this little curve right here still scraping that's pretty good I might come back to that I'm gonna work on the bottom soon as I take a little break this is the workout for an old man I was cleaning myself up here a little bit to take my little mini break and I knew I was getting hurt from stuff flying off of there I didn't know what was causing cuts and blood that is that that's hardwood and sharp wood we having fun now I think we're good I need to mark out for the tenon now I'm gonna I'm going to slow the speed down a little bit just for controllability and cut that little knob off of there about 800 rpm I think we're cool I'm gonna bring up the tail stock again take the speed back up about twelve hundred and thirty I probably should go sharp on that but I'm going to see if I can't make this work [Music] you I'm for sanding this is a really unusual piece for me there's nothing about this at this point that it feels good it feels awful every every crack is sharpest can be the edges here sharpest can be over here can you see this there's little little sharp things coming out of here out of this crack it's just it's not a pleasant piece to touch but for those of you that watch me on a regular basis you know that I spend a lot of time in my finishing my sanding and my finishing because I like it to feel comfortable when you pick it up and hold it in your hands I want it to feel nice and it will I'm gonna be using my sandal flex on this piece looks like that soon as I get my mask on I'll show you how it's gonna work but I'm not going to use this in the beginning I'm gonna use this this is 180 grit on here I'm gonna use it when I get to 180 grit with the two inch disc sander that looks like this and I'm just gonna sand this piece like this and once I get up to 180 then I'll switch over to the sandal flex and I'll sand all of these cracks you know all of these irregular areas so let me get my mask on and I'll show you how that's going to work the lathes will be spinning and reversed at 350 rpm and I'm starting with 80 grit [Music] so up up through 180 grit and then I'll switch to this and I'll do it like that and I'll do it like this I'll come at it from the other direction [Music] so this is going to be a 2 or 3 hour standing job but it's gonna be worth it in the long run I promise it's gonna be a spectacular piece I love it so far I just don't want to touch it then we will put on sanding sealer and shellac and that's when I'll bring you back see in a bit that's what I'm talking about so much nicer so much nicer all right let's bring out some of that beautiful grain this is gonna take some time to sanding wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be a couple hours I guess and it's just smooth as can be it may really only take one coat of this sanding sealer in reality I'll get on more than one coat and the reason is I do this first and then I'll take a little brush and get inside of all those cracks and crevices and then after I do that then I wipe it again with fresh sanding sealer so it ends up being really two or three coats it's just that they're all applied at once I just put some sanding sealer inside this little can and I'll just dip my little acid brush in there and we'll get after it and then what happens of course is it it gets on the outside of these cracks and that's why I take my raggin and go over it because I don't want it building up there so I have to do this real quick before it dries and this is gonna take a while so I won't make your watch at all and I'll bring you back when it's time to turn it around start working on the inside which I'm sure is gonna call for carbide see it a bit well now the fun begins doesn't it I've got a beautiful finish on the outside feels just silky smooth feels really nice looks nice it's great I'm worried about some of these cracks I don't want to lose anything I don't want anything to go flying and in the case of big old one it's got a crack going all the way down here around it down here so like that and I just you know I just don't want to lose anything and I kind of like this little guy here and I don't want to lose him either and he's got a crack all the way around him too and it goes pretty deep in that way I'm gonna start with my five-eighths inch swept back bowl gouge because that seemed to work a little bit better but to be honest I'm almost positive we're gonna end up going to carbide but I'll give this an honest try and we'll see how it goes I'm gonna get my mask and face shield on and we'll be turning at 1,400 rpm [Music] that's just a waste of time we're gonna go with this carbide hollowing tool you need to raise my tool rest a little bit I do definitely prefer gouges but you know sometimes you just got to cut your losses and move along and sometimes you gotta put a glove on okay here we go you [Music] you [Music] you [Music] well we're just about there about creativity now the cracks looking you know what maybe we should stop there you know why tempt fate got a lot of work into this thing maybe we should scrape and call it good I'm gonna put a fresh edge on my scraper I'll be right back you it is time for sanding soon as I get my area cleaned up here and grab a cup of coffee I'll be back typically when you see me use a sander flex it's this one this is 180 grit and these are called slashed meaning all these little little bits and pieces of sandpaper and I will be using this in this manner from from up here from the inside out to clean up all the cracks and whatnot along this top edge for the inside of this bowl I'm going to start with this non slashed or plain 60 grit sandpaper so I'll get my mask on and I'll show you how that's going to work after I've used that on the inside then I'll switch to this 80 grit 2 inch disc and I'll just stand normally so I'll show you those two I'm not going to switch over to this you saw me use it on the outside I'll be using it much the same way on the inside let me get my mask on I'll show you how this is going to work lay the spinning at about 240 then I'll use this on the inside out then I'll use this with the lathe spinning at about 350 so that's what that's gonna look like and I'll bring you back when it's time to put some sanding sealer on the inside don't go anywhere so this is the first of at least two coats of sanding sealer and then likely two coats of shellac this is probably the crappiest piece I've ever done but to me they're beautiful they add something it's like it's hand carved or or something I don't know quite what it is not sure why I like it so much you know normally you don't you don't want to crack or if you got one maybe it's not too bad this one is it's all cracks but they're beautiful the way they're laid out they kind of go either diagonal I wish you could see the outside here but yeah kind of like that but on the outside they're more pronounced okay I'll see you tomorrow I have a groovy evening eat your dinner I've mounted a block of wood up in my chuck it's got a non-slip surface on it I'm just gonna place the bowl over that and bring up the tail stock I still have my center hole there for reference I'm just gonna kind of jiggle the piece around a little bit make sure it feels sinnard apply a little pressure and bring up my tool rest and normally for this I'll use a gouge but in this case because of all these cracks in here and those cracks go all the way through all the way through to the inside of the bowl I'm just afraid this is not very strong especially since I've removed so much material now so I'm going to use a hollowing tool this carbide tip tool I'm going to leave it ray in the center but I am gonna remove some of it I'm a little scared this piece is quite delicate it's also quite beautiful but we'll talk about that in a little bit it is gorgeous it's gorgeous inside now anyway so we'll spin this up a little bit here I'm gonna hold my thumbnail against the tenon see if it hits equally all the way around make sure it's centered and it sure does and it sure is so I'm going to turn the speed up to about 600 rpm and begin to removing the tenon partially and slowly and carefully [Music] yes it clears it's just this little center portion here that's that's too high so now I'm going to use a 3/8 inch swept back ball gouge to try and work away that center portion lay the spinning is about 400 rpm so now I'm going to apply the bevel of the gouge against the bottom of the bowl well it did kind of chip away didn't it I didn't even I didn't even get through my whole spiel there okay so now I'm gonna take it over to the workbench stand up this center area sign it put some finish on it and I'll be right back well here it is one manzanita ball in the books it's hard to know what side to look at there's so much beautiful neskowin on here so much nature but I think for me that right there that that's amazing that's just amazing beautiful piece don't you think nature at its finest there's the bottom Thank You Tuffy Martinez for sending this piece of manzanita along for all to enjoy if you like this video a thumbs up please I'd sure appreciate it if your subscriber thank you very kindly I truly appreciate that if you're not a subscriber you might consider becoming one I put out regular videos about one a week and I'd like to keep in touch your comments are always welcome and I read all of them so for now this is Phil shady acres woodshop signing off you

Channel: Phil Anderson - Shady Acres Woodshop

Views: 69,071

Rating: 4.9501119 out of 5

Keywords: Wood Turning, Live Edge Bowl, Wood Lathe, Jet Lathe 1840, Phil's Woodshop, Wood Shop, Bowl Shape and Designs, Cracks in Wood Bowls, Wooden, Museum Quality Turnings, Artsy, Arts and Crafts, Bowl Gouge, Carbide Turning

Id: JJk7S9Y9yJk

Length: 26min 58sec (1618 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 17 2019