See The Beauty Inside This Log! - Wood Turning

we are in for a treat today this is olive wood from las vegas and from my friend dan dan brought this up uh two three years ago now it's incredible it's also quite difficult it's very very hard very very heavy on this particular piece i think we're gonna lose almost all of the bark but let's find out good morning good afternoon good evening earth we like to say here at shady acres wood shop howdy the piece is about 10 inches across it's about five inches this way which will be depth seven inches this way i think this is going to be the top right here i'm going to turn it whole i'm not going to cut it in half or anything i'm not going to round anything up before i start i don't want to lose any design opportunities as we go along i just want to see what what pops up as we're turning so i'm going to drill a hole here for a wood worm screw take it over here the lathe get it mounted up and we'll get to turning this olive wood from dan in las vegas well with just a little bit of handling drilling the hole for the woodworm screw and getting it mounted up here the the bark just started falling off so now i'm just prying off what little bit didn't fall off just to save it from hitting me in the face or something i would always try to uh keep the bark on i mean that's my thing pretty much is bark but this was just a lost cause i mean i would have been this would have been more glue than wood and bark but it's okay because it's olive wood and the wood is going to be the star of this show well there's a little bit there right there that might stay nice and tight that'll get us started i'm going to start on this corner over here so i have my tool rest at about a 45 degree angle uh we're going to be turning at 500 rpm i'm going to wear a glove because it's going to hurt coming off of there i'm going to use a 5 8 inch bowl gouge mask and face shield on [Music] so that might as well be a rock i'm telling you that is some hard wood whoa you're gonna you might notice me switching between my original shorter 5 8 inch ball gouge and my newer 5 8 inch bowl gouge they're both sharp to start with that one's dull now so this way i'll have to sharpen less often but twice as long each time huh gonna be pretty though yes it is you'll see if we last that long anyway well we're just about there as far as rounding it up we got a flat spot right here but that's the only remaining flat spot so that's something see if i can take care of that before i go sharpen okay i'm going to come down here and work on the bottom so i can tell where my side is going to start so i can firm up the side profile let me change my setup for that i'll be right back [Music] [Music] [Music] and while we're at it we might as well mark out for a tenon and i'll just use my live center for that just lay my pencil across that live center that gives me an approximate size of my tenon within about an eighth of an inch and then we might as well make the tenon while we're here huh [Applause] and i'm going to use this diamond point tool to square up the sides of the tenon but i need to adjust my tool rest a little bit higher because it's such a thin tool [Music] [Music] okay we don't need a base anywhere near this wide so i can start working on this corner again well bye golly i think we've done it time for sanding i'm gonna start sanding with my sandal flex this was 180 grit and i'm going to sand the bark inclusions this gap in here and then i'm going to sand along this top edge we do have a natural edge so that's 180 grit and that's where i'll stop with that when i'm done with that i'll switch to my two inch disc at 80 grit and i'll have the lace spinning in reverse at about 350 and then i'll alternate between forward and reverse and i'll show you what that looks like soon as i get my mask on so this bar conclusion here and i'll do a little bit more of that but that's pretty much it and then again starting at 80 and working up through 400 and then forward as well so that looks like it's going to be pretty easy peasy i'll bring it back here in a bit and we'll put some sanding sealer on there i think see in a bit well this is another one of those i sure wish you could feel it's just it's just silky smooth it's amazing how such a hard wood can feel so incredibly soft and look at that grain oh my and we're gonna see that on the inside as well remember this is a crotch piece so we see we see the ends of the pieces here's three of them right here one two three and then that's the fourth one over there and then we have this incredible void here and i know a lot of folks would fill that with epoxy or resin or something and that's terrific you know a lot of people do incredible work with those andy phillip is a favorite of mine he's just he's just an artist when it comes to that sort of thing that and color oh my he can blend colors until they're just gorgeous but i don't do that and there's nothing wrong with doing that you know if that's what you like then that's what you should do what i like is is i can now i can stick my fingers in here and i can still feel on the bark there the same part that i might have felt when this tree was standing it's still there so if you were some little kid climbing this tree and now this is your bowl and you and you remember sticking marbles in there or toothpicks or twigs or whatever little car or something whatever you're stuck in there you can still do that and you can feel the texture it's kind of to me it's kind of like proof of life you know well this is a sanding sealer it's shellac based it's called zinzer sealcoat it comes ready to use out of the can i don't do anything to it at all and and this is so smooth it feels like i could probably get away with one coat but i'll put two on here well i'm kind of putting two on right now and i've already gone over this once look at that look [Music] you at that now i'm gonna have to use a brush to get in some of those places so i put a little little uh seal coat in this can and i've got my brush and i'll just get down in the in this void this little crevice and polish it up a little bit that's all we're going to do it'll be just like it was except a little smoother and a little bit shinier so that's what it's going to look like like i said i'll put two coats of this on then i'll put on two coats of shellac and i'll bring you back and we'll start working on the inside that's gonna be a pain in the neck but it's gonna be so worth it see you in a bit i have the piece turned around with the tenon mounted up in the chuck i'm trying to determine a good turning speed this is 590 rpm and it's pretty stable not not much vibration if i turn it up to about 700 rpm now i got quite a bit of vibration if i keep going up now i'm at about 960 rpm vibrations about gone so i think that's where we're going to turn because this is going to be a difficult piece to turn with the high spots and the low spots and and then being such hard wood the faster speed i can get the the smoother the cut will be i'm sure you understand that faster is better many times not always not always don't don't say phil said i should turn it 2000 rpm i'm not saying that but smooth is good so we're going to be turning at what i say 970 rpm 5 8 inch bowl gouge mask and face shield on [Music] foreign [Laughter] oh what do we got going on oh yeah here we come that's what we like huh [Music] [Music] now i can get my tool rest in there and get a little more support [Music] so [Music] i'm gonna go sharpen up [Music] i'm going to do a little shear scraping i should have probably already done this when i had some support in the center i was just amazed at how well it's turning but i need to clean up my cuts here a little bit [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah that's much better i like to be as close as i can get but i don't want it hitting of course but closer you closer you are the more support you have less vibration of the tool out here well i think i'm getting just what i want this kind of a crack it's actually a bark inclusion looks like a crack right there it's uh it's out here as well it stops right here stops here on the outside but it comes clear in here on the inside but i think it's okay because it does come to a stop [Music] wow i'm going to switch to my newer longer chisel and see if that'll give me any more stability in that cut [Music] [Music] oh that's beautiful it's beautiful okay i am going to thin it down a little more here it's just it's just too thick i just don't want to lose it but it's too thick right now that is it that's enough let's see what it says here oh yeah that's that's good that's about a half an inch thick bottom that's about the same as at the top here i didn't know i'd gone that far i'm glad i checked well that's about all i can do a little more shear scraping maybe [Applause] beautiful beautiful we're done time for sanding oh boy i'm pooped once again i'm going to be sanding with my two inch disc starting at 80 grit i'm gonna have the lathe spinning forward and reverse at about 420 rpm a little faster than normal so that this gap passes me by rather than catches me at a slower speed and i'll show you what that looks like soon as i get my mask on that's forward and then reverse and switching my drill to reverse as well well that's smoother than i thought it might be so that's what i'll be doing up through 400 grit i'll bring you back here in a bit and we'll put some sanding sealer on there see you in a bit well that wasn't quite as easy peasy as i thought it might be these uh these sanding mandrels that i use well they're quite strong and i can end up using them for years actually a couple years before they go bad on me i went through two of them doing this because they got caught on here as this came around one one side or the other if i was going forward or backward they got caught on there and just ripped them ripped them apart this is what i'm talking about is these things and it comes apart here and it comes apart here and and they were just all busted up and these are like i don't know how much they are 12 or something like that this is one that i glued back together and one of the ones that came apart on this is sitting over here in the vice glued back together but you can never get them back perfectly though they'll end up running off center a little bit or vibrating and that really is just a matter of my losing my concentration i try as hard as i possibly can to concentrate still doesn't always work but it's done it is done it was a lot of work but it's done and that's a good thing and i hope i can get as good of finish on the inside here as i did the outside looks pretty good so far now i have to brush into some of these cracks and crevices and bark inclusions like here so this is the first of two coats of sanding sealer just like on the outside and then i'll put on two coats of shellac just like on the outside and then i'll bring you back here in a little bit and we will take off the tenon and get a look at this thing never in my life thought i'd be able to turn olive wood i didn't know that it grows in the united states i don't know where it grows besides las vegas okay so i'll see you back here in a little bit i've mounted a block of wood up in my chuck it has a non-slip surface on it but it's not large enough these the wood edges are going to touch inside the bowl and i don't want that so i'm going to put another piece of non-slip material over that and bring up the bowl and bring up the tail stock i still have that center hole there for reference so i can just drive my live center into that and that will help center it on that block of wood and i'll bring up my tool rest we'll spin the piece up and see if it looks like it's running true it's not perfect but it's not bad either apply a little pressure turn the speed up to about 550 and grab a 3 8 inch bowl gouge and commence to removing that tenon i just want to check for clearance we have good clearance that's getting pretty small so i'm gonna turn the speed down to about 400 rpm and just keep working it away [Applause] and that's pretty small so i'm going to switch to a 3 8 inch sweat back bowl guys so that i can get in there a little closer and i'm going to turn the speed down to about 200 rpm [Laughter] that's quite small so now i'm going to apply the bevel of the gouge against the bottom of the bowl pressure towards the headstock right hand on the gouge left hand on the switch and when the little nub stops turning we'll know we're through like that well in this case it sort of sort of disintegrated but didn't hurt anything now i'll just take this up here to the workbench sand that up sign it get it finished and i'll be right back be sure you stick around to the end of the video so you can see the before and after shots of this piece if you'd share the video wow i'd really appreciate that thank you very kindly well here it is one olive natural edge bowl in the books not pretty look at that green look at that oh my kind of got a monster going on here what do you think got his two eyes somebody took an axe right down the middle of his face oh that's an awful thought i'm so sorry that's no good and look at that oh my goodness gracious whoo yep olive wood you just can't hardly go wrong and yeah we have a nice big gap that you can reach in there and feel that bark from that real tree that used to be standing and if i was to fill that up then what then what would i then what would i use it for would i eat my salad out of there or soup i i just wouldn't i just really wouldn't i don't know why you'd fill it with anything when you have all that to look at so it's just an art piece it's just meant to be enjoyed for the visual aspects of the grain of the wood and the color an appreciation of the tree and nature here's the bottom all finished up thank you dan in las vegas for sending this along for all to enjoy if you like this video thumbs up please i'd sure 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Length: 25min 18sec (1518 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 08 2022