Turn a Hardwood Mushroom - Art Market Projects

welcome back to work every woodworking if they need y'all follow my Instagram or Facebook feeds or anything like that you know I work a lot of art markets probably well over a hundred a year and while you put a lot of effort into the large bowls containers and stuff like that well some of them won't take you in up to two years to finish because you do them in stages you know not everybody's going to be buying a 200 300 $100 item on impulse so you have to have something that you can batch out fairly quickly don't put too much time in that can make a decent profit on for impulse buys that you can sell people when they come over and we're coming up on the holiday season right now so I thought I'd show you a bunch of other small items that you can do teach you a few tips and techniques along the way show you how different tools worked and that kind of stuff and maybe you can make some stuff that you can give out to family friends batson out or even sell about a local holiday markets like we do so those of y'all that watch our channel oh whoa realize that I'm not in my shop right now I'm not my dad's place and he has an item that he sells quite a bit lately so I'm going to introduce him and let him show you how he makes one of his more popular selling items [Music] [Applause] [Music] honey I'm Jack Shawn's dad today we want to show you what I've been making reason that I enjoy is mushrooms you saw some pictures of mica coming in we've got some fresh boat art that came down from Harvey I've got some Elm that came from my yard and I've got some must keep that someone gave me so what we end up doing to make the mushrooms is cut limbs down and I look for oddities like in this particular case here you can see it's got a kind of a funny shape to the top so I when I looked at the limbs I tried to find something kind of odd so I could cut whereas in this one it's just a straight cut from the limp okay this is a piece of elm from my guard notice it's got of kind of an odd shape to it so I'm going to end up making a mushroom bit from this section and from this section so I can get this unique portion here this portion in here will just give me a standard looking mushroom so here we go here's a piece of board art that came down from the harvey storm here in San Marcos you can see I've got a kind of a funny hop in here's on the top of the bus or might be and then it's the normal mushroom down in here these are the three I just cut you can see this is going to make a kind of shake cap this will also make somewhat of an odd shaped cap and this would make a sort of an old looking cap we're at the lathe this is our lot of blanks here's one of the blank and what we're going to do is put a tendon on it we're setting this up between centers I'll put the tenon on this end this would be the top of the mushroom so you want to end up determining where and here you want that Center that kept to be so that when we put the tenon on that would be the center I turn the sinner with a tube that I made from a square bar it's got a angle to the type strain here with an angle down so that when I put it down I will get the dovetail that matches my Chuck cuz when I'm cutting my tenant I want to make a slight end in here so that I've got a a real good flat surface so it's slightly gonna be a little deeper right at that point than out here so that when my Chuck comes on I get a good contact all around if I come out and do it this way and it's go fat right here then my Chuck does not make good contact with the wood as you can see when I'm centering this one for my tail stock it is slightly off centered so that I end up getting a nicer looking cap on my mushroom [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] just a quick review we cut our we cut our blanks with a bandsaw however we wanted to again to get a good shape we put it on the on a lathe between centers to do the tendon I really like to do it in stages where I leave this one set up and do 10 15 20 of them so that I'm not switching back and forth we're ready for the next step before we go on to it though I would like to provide a suggestion that if your blanks are green in any way and you've got quite a few of them if you can't get to them right away you might want to park them in a plastic trash bag or something to keep keep them from drying out then checking on you our next step is we want to mount the the blank that we've did between centers with the tenon on it into our Chuck I use duck tail chucks duck tail jaws I just prefer them over the ones that have the grippers on them but they're both good they're both good jaws I just prefer the dovetail with the duck tail you want to as with the other one also you want to get the chuck a blank flat up against the chuck so that the the front edge of the jaws are resting against that flat surface that you cut so that when you tighten it down there's an it there's a contact all the way around with the wood and you want to go and look and make sure there's not any gaps in there and there's not that way this thing has good the jaws have a good grip on it so it's not going to move back and forth with Greenwood especially you want to get it pretty tight and there we go we're ready to go before we start cutting I would like to talk a little bit about the wood you're using and the shape of your mushroom your what your perhaps some of your limitations are this is a piece of boat art that is fairly green so it's got a lot of moisture in it and if I leave it too thick it's going to crack and if you'll notice on the bottom of this one I had to leave it fairly thick and it cracked on me but you'll notice my top didn't crack the reason it didn't is when I shake the top of my mushroom I didn't go away up high I kind of made it a little flatter so that I could go inside later on and scoop it out so get a fairly thin uniform shape here so allowed it to move without cracking even when you try to do the best you can this one it cracked right where the pith was but it's still everything else stayed nice and I would lucky to the base didn't crack so what we want to do with Greenwood is not get your dome of your busting them too high so that you can still get in it and make it a uniform shape now as we cut this you see it's very uneven so I'm gonna be cutting here and wood and air and wood so you want to go and take slow cuts and sort of cut the shadow off as you're going through so why I will start a little bit here and show you what I mean [Music] I would also like to suggest when you're doing this in a shape if you would noticed when I came in I wasn't just moving this portion I was moving my entire body to form that shape and in doing that that tends to create a very nice smooth transition that you're doing it instead of here you might get a dragon a jagged transition so when you transition this way just move it with your body and I'll give you one last cut show you what I mean you can watch my body move [Music] [Music] so I'm moving my body around it instead of moving this and there's my shape for my top the next thing we want to do he began to remove some of the bulk here in the middle and here we go [Applause] [Applause] okay we have removed some of the bark around the stem and I cut into it just enough to where I've got just a little bit more of a of the edge of the mushroom cap that I wanted right here and now we need to remove the material underneath the cap and I do that with a rough with a parting tool so with a parting tool I'm gonna come in and just sort of scrape it out to where I get I'm gonna keep doing this until I get my uniform edge for my cap all the way around then I use a hollowing tool to hug the rest of it out so here we go [Music] [Music] now at this point as you can see I've got a fairly uniform edge for my mushroom cap all the way around and and again that was obtained by going with my party tool and edgy straight on in and getting it at this point I've got a good edge so I need to get rid of this the bulk in here and I will do that initially with my spindle gouge and then I will go with an Ellsworth hollowing tool at this point we have removed and enough of the material bulk underneath the cap that I think it will be be alright and dry uniform formerly and not and not crack in doing that I will use these two tools one was my spindle gouge the other was what I call an Ellsworth grinding tool elbow scraper as you can see with this Ellsworth grinding tool it's sort of at an angle undercut all the way around so that way when I'm when I'm in there you should just explain when I'm in there I can slightly turn it this way a little bit so now I've got almost a negative rate scraper here on the edge so I'm almost shearing it off in a negative rake scraping mode if I turn it slightly this way and and and work against this side I'm getting a slight shearing scraping addition so that's why I like this shape that I can get in there and kind of shape it without it grabbing too much even with this it will grab some but I like to tool at this point we have a decision to make of how we want to seem to be there are two stems that I have to stem styles that I work with one I will call an onion and one I will call a palm tree in the palm tree I tend to leave the bark on it and sort of undercut it and just keep on going up this way sort of like you see now but a lot thinner and typically when I do that I've got a longer piece here and I've got more room here to leave the bark on in this case I'm gonna make my preferred base which is like an onion so I'm going to create my base my onion and and I will show you how it how it's done from it I will make a bark one on another of palm tree on another one but this one will be an onion shape here we go [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] I would like to stop for a second and explain a couple of my cuts that I'm doing right now in this shape but I'm gonna turn it on and do it real quickly and it will come back [Applause] now I want to get a shape through here but I also want to get a shape that I don't have to sand very much it will be nice and smooth and not have any jaggedness you always this is spindle turning so you always wanted to going downhill so in this case I'm coming in here riding a bevel and going just straight on through but somewhere in in the middle here in this area I'm reaching a point to where I'm beginning to go uphill not downhill and I don't want any if I keep going I'm gonna get us some raggedness so I can come back and come back downhill and use the edge of my spindle gouge as almost like a skew and just scrape it on out so I'm so four so I'm still going downhill so I get that nice service finish I'll do it one more time and if you will notice in here I'm getting all this tear out because right there I'm beginning to go uphill so now at that point I want to go slightly above it just using my edge of my skew it isn't my spindle guys don't look like a skew and come back down he'll come back downhill and I get a very nice smooth surface the next step in my process is sanding this is kind of wet wood so it's gonna sound a little different than the dry wood wood by stilling to do it if you remember I left a little nib here on the end that I want to take off so that I can get rid of any broken fiber here with the final cut and get rid of any residual tool marks that I might have [Laughter] it is now sanded I went through started 220 because my my tooling was was good enough that I didn't need to go any any course of grit to 220 and then I went to 320 and that's sufficient and I use it just to get rid of any tool marks at the top of your ride that nib now I want to part it off I want this to be able to sit flat so I need to sort of somewhat slightly undercut it when I part it off they're not getting it down as thin as I think I can get it without it sort of wobbling and then I'll either you just saw to cut it off or use a thin blade parting tool to part it off what are the two so here we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] I would be grist for a second and end up saying this is a quarter-inch drill from Harbor Freight I go through they cost about 40 bucks 35 if you get that 20 percent discount they last me about a year but I really liked them for a couple reasons one they're fairly lightweight they're variable speeds so they go different speeds plus they go forward and back so now I can end up whichever way I'm turning I can always get my my sander going this way going against direction so I really like your plus it has a finger tightening so that I don't have to have a key to do it I can just do it with my hand so that is really nice when it comes time to finish you can you know I typically will put see them all with sanding sealer and if I'm only using sanding sealer I'll probably put a second coat on it let that dry and then just polish it up with the Beale system at the same time though I like the color quite a few of them I won't ever color the botar because this yellow and the color is kind of messed up but usually both artists pretty needed itself but I have found that if you color a good portion of them it tends to draw people into the to the booth they pick it up and look at it and many times you have a favorite color that they that draws attention again our sole purpose here is something that's fairly inexpensive for us to do we can do a lot of them they draw attention and they get us a little bit of extra cash it's something less expensive in the booth that more of a spot sale okay I have used trance tent a lot I like that and I have all those colors I've also tried it like that chestnut colors I've also used some of the artisan colors the artisan and the chestnut you use them as is with the tran sent you dilute them down with alcohol and I put a have my own little bottle as I keep separate I have found that a good way to apply the colors is these little makeup wedges I like them and the way I do it it's I just put a little bit of color on the end of the wedge and put it on I like to see all the mushrooms with sanding sealer III typically will use the Zinser slack and dilute it 50/50 with alcohol and I used to go disposable brushes that I can get it Harbor Freight we just got the first coat on I'm gonna let it dry for about an hour then we're going to put the second coat on and let that dry for a couple hours and then we go to the buffing system this is a real nice buffing system I've got here it's called a one of my buffing system this my it's my second leg and I typically just leave my buffing wheel on it until I need the lathe this is my Tripoli buffing wheel there's one I've got by the ready very what I'm doing then I will change the wheel to the Tripoli that wasn't Ripley's now I'm gonna go to white diamond I'm sorry lightly charged it up lightly buffing it okay we're back from the buffing wheel and let me show you some differences here this is just a sanding sealer as all it is and you can see here's a green one and the one that's not been been buffed these are the two Osage orange ones and you can see how they're somewhat a lot more shiny than the non buffed one and then I've got some natural wood didn't color and that is just sanding sealer nothing but sanding sealer and the real buffing system isn't that really nice-looking and that one is one of those palm tree styles that's also a palm tree style and this is a pump tree style without the bark on it hope you enjoyed this one and please go make some and sell some so there you go a bunch of mushrooms and the thing is you don't do a few at a time you do mat doesn't that time that way you when you take them out to your market you have twenty or thirty all different colors as people walking by they'll see the colors I'll recognize it's a mushroom at least come and talk to you it's amazing how many of these you sell to just an individual walking by that wasn't really looking for woodworking but that's a little dust collector that they got just got to put on the mantelpiece plus you sell bowls and stuff like that people putting a bow out and middle their table they might put a few of these around that bow as a centerpiece it works out really well and it's bonus sales that don't take too much time to make and just boost your boost your income so if you liked this video please like favorite subscribe do all those other social medias this is s that worth AFRICOM or we have a lot slang like t-shirts and hats and we'll have some stickers up in Fletcher in the future and there's a lot of other ways you can support us just visit our support page and I want you to remember one last thing it is always worth the effort to learn create and share with others y'all be safe and have fun

Channel: wortheffort

Views: 258,118

Keywords: wortheffort, woodworking, woodturning, wood turning, turning, hardwood, mushroom, spindle, gouge, scraper, basic, learn, lathe

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Length: 36min 0sec (2160 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 21 2017