Spalted oak with Zebra wood rim

I hope you can hear me with all my fans going on it's too hot to not have them look pretty the oak watch beeps I got from Richard if the gentleman who sold me the bandsaw I just went outside and whacked off the more rotten e looking portion with the chainsaw and it was going to put a face plate on but some reason I cannot find my fortune or bit that is as big as my face plates to help the sink in flat and I ran out of my long screws these are the short one so there's a lot of looseness in this surface area and rather be able to get down there deep so my next option is my wormwood screw I know my wormwood screw does not go in there any deeper than what these were these screws would bet this is a smaller flatter surface this starts to loosen up on me as I'm turning it I can always try to do my spur Drive or you know move move on through the mounting methods and see which one works best I already drilled a hole for my wormwood screw and I poured some superglue CA glue inside so that way it will help hopefully just stiffen up those fibers a little bit the pretty soft and some areas some cracks I love these like whirligigs in here whatever you want to call them so I'm hoping the scratch piece will have some nice figure and be worth probably the trouble it's going to give me you can see here some cracks running all the way through it and obviously it's been salting it's got a lot of mold and you see this bolted layer here make sure you turn smelted step with the mask those are fungus spores and that getting into your lungs is not going to do you any favors [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this piece had a lot of cracks in it to begin with in bug holes so I knew that there would be some design opportunities as far as filling it with you know epoxy or or what-have-you so I had a subscriber who wrote to me saying that he uses CA glue and baking soda to fill some cracks and some projects that he makes thank you for the idea Rob so I mixed some silver coloring with some baking soda CA glue just to keep kind of do a fill without having to fill it so much with CA and it seemed to work really well and it did try the CA glue dried pretty fast because of reaction baking soda didn't smoke or anything at least not for me it didn't I'm just using a Harbor Freight super glue it's only 399 for that larger sized bottle so I figured to give it a try and it works pretty good so I'm going through and filling these spots now I did do this before on another Bowl and punky areas where I'm right now I'm just trying to get this punky areas filled and the lighter the wood the more this particular method will be harder to get off I should say because it does that baking said it does go in there so it did help I figured I would do that before I turn it around to be she picks those gonna have to cut all that away anyway some of this wood was borderline mushy in some areas so just trying to chisel away as much as I possibly can that is not useable and then try to salvage some of that spalting because most of the spalting was just borderline rot so going into this I don't really like I said I don't really have big plans for a certain shape it's it's more of like well the worst that I could do is just make a plain basic Bowl and so I try to utilize the wood and what it's doing and the grain and things like that to come up with ideas and I tend to here lately have been going towards this particular shape that this ended up with and I guess it's just because the woods that I'm using are giving me the opportunity to do that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is the baking soda method again where that crotch piece came together this that is pretty deep all the way through the piece so I just continue to fill it fill it fill it as I cut and see what happens but I think in the end I had to put a little bit of epoxy in that crack but mostly the holes that I end up having in the very top from all the wormholes and in the spalting and stuff the mosquitoes were eating me up so that's why I keep smacking my legs [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] some just put in super glue in the funky areas and some really small hairline cracks that I'm seeing that's showing up the super goo helps to stiffen those fibers sometimes sometimes I'll go over it with a lacquer and like or thinner and put several coats and if I'm going to leave it overnight normally that's what I'll do and that usually helps to stiffen up you can also use polyurethane if you have any soak the piece really good with it and just let it sit overnight or you know several days if you like and now that will work as well [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] now I have some holes and the poo holes I call it to dremel out with my dremel so I have something to put the epoxy it was kind of still too moist for me to attempted to put even the five-minute epoxy in there I figured it possibly dry out you know quick enough but it was just really rotten so I did here fill it use that same silver black coloring and put it all in the room in some areas that it's stuck and stayed and mostly in the punky areas it didn't like after it dried I could just pull them right out so I knew that that wasn't gonna work and I was afraid that I was just gonna keep dumping epoxy in these holes and it was just gonna come out I later decided because I did want a rim I did really want to have a nice rim on the piece you'll see what I came up with here shortly [Music] it's all just rolling out you can see some of it already just came out while scraping it so I was like well I'll get off what I can from the inside and go from there at this point you're just like while you're cutting or you're mowing through your head what to do so I'm picking up the holes I'm just looking at it and I'm thinking what to do what to do what to do what can I do to stiffen this up and make a nice rim so a friend of mine um Donnie he makes martial arts equipment and so he has a lot of woods that he buys that he has scraps leftover the it doesn't use so he gave me a bunch of this this wood and this is zebra wood so I glued I cut my rim down you know cut away a lot of the rocks a lot rot was really located in that top part of it rim got it as flat as I possibly could and cut the zebra wood into two strips and glued it on the rim and I felt that wood would look really good with spalting and you know the stripes and things like that going in the oak already so they've turned out pretty good [Music] [Music] this project sat on my lathe for like two days with the rim glued on it so as it dried out it started to move so the cracks that were already there just got bigger so we filled those with the epoxy and of course all around the rim where a lot of the bug holes were and this time they stayed yay so here I'm just scraping down all of the epoxy getting everything nice and smooth you know did move on me while it was drying so I'm kind of like having to go through and reshape it as well but that's fine I did leave enough material on the inside when I hold it to where you know I could get it down without having to worry about going through the piece and that's just something I kept in mind while I was hollowing it out because of the rot you know you want to make sure you don't go too thin because especially in a spalted piece because it's already got weak points in it and so I kind of just naturally go towards leaving those kind of pieces a little on the thicker side because of that it may or may not be the proper right way to do it it's just in my mind makes sense so that's why I do it I don't have any other technical better reason so now I'm just going through all of the grits I had to do a tea for quite a bit because of you know the spalting everything on the inside and I did put like her and like her thinner on this and let it sit for about 20 minutes while I wouldn't eat lunch to help stiffen up some of those fibers and that seemed to work really well because the sanding didn't take as long as I thought it would on this you'll see there's like a little spongy thing in my hand on top of my sanding pads that I use for my sander what I do is those makeup pads women you know what I'm talking about that you apply your foundation with they're just little round makeup sponges you can at Walmart I think there's like there a dollar for I don't know 10 or 15 of them they work really well in keeping your fingers right off the sandpaper for one and going around all this curves without you know being so harsh some putting the axe ending paste on and the I didn't show you but I'm doing the restoring polish as well so you put that on and then you just buff it off and it really does leave a beautiful shine and I could have left it at that point because it was it was beautiful but I felt this piece needed a little bit more of a shine so I decided to go with the OB shine juice like usual [Music] [Music] so I'm just removing the nub and gonna see into the bottom all the way through the grits and put the same finishes on it burned my branding iron in it my camera shut off before it got I got through the complete process so I apologize about that [Music] you

Channel: Kim Tippin Wood Turning

Views: 37,009

Keywords: woodturning spalted oak, zebra rim, wood turning hollow form, zebra wood

Id: HI-mNww-NeQ

Length: 22min 32sec (1352 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 26 2019