T.Rob
I make stuff with code and with wood. Just, you know, not at the same time.
#actuallyautistic #cybersecurity #woodturner
Joined Oct 2022
Wife claims to love the bowl, and the choice of glossy finish improved it some, but I can't bring myself to like it. Filling in the carvings with putty renders them flat and 2-dimensional. And even if I'd painted like the cedar bowl, I see now the pores are so large they would have retained the paint. Next time I might carve or texture the bowl and leave it at that.
I wasn't planning to get wood today but one look at this fine piece of ash and my brain was no longer the boss.
I thought black Milliput would give too much contrast on this carved black limba bowl, but now I'm having serious regrets about the brick color. Wife says it looks great but I think she's trying to make me feel better about it. Going to reserve judgement until final finish but I suspect this one gets chalked up to #woodturning mistakes in the end. Too bad. It was otherwise a very nice piece with a pleasing shape.
PSI sells a wide variety of woodturning kits and supplies. Among the Top 10 turning kits they sell, smoking pipes come in at #4.
Considering the number of locales in which weed remains illegal, folks in the legalized jurisdictions must be buying these up in droves to get into the #4 spot.
My hands are so full of wood glue and finish that the fingerprint reader on the laptop won't recognize me.
Good thing I enrolled the prosthetic finger I keep on a shelf as a backup.
Multi-factor Authentication achievement==Unlocked!
(Tagged as #ITSecurity #humor in case anyone thinks I'm recommending this or believe it qualifies as multi-factor. Feel free to believe I actually did it though.)
Pizza cutter works! Funny how making your own utensils makes the food taste better. 😋
The pizza and cutter are sitting on an end-grain cutting board that I made a couple years back. That was before I bought the lathe. These days I hardly do anything with wood that isn't lathe turned so we'll have to make this one last.
Did someone say pizza cutter? #hotoffthelathe today is a monster sized pizza cutter from Wood River. I used one of the #scrapwoodchallenge blanks from the previous post to turn a handle. I love the green poplar contrasting with almost black wenge and the white ash. Going to try it out tonight!
Getting tired of cedar pen pix? Yeah, me too. But I do need to keep using scrapwood because I'm getting buried in it. So for today's #scrapwoodchallenge I laminated some blanks to turn handles from. The first is for a pizza cutter and the others might be for screwdriver, kitchen utensils or something else.
#hotoffthelathe today is an Apollo style twist pen. I'm so glad I kept using up the off-cuts from the last bowl because this one has a little detail at the tip that is unique and whimsical yet natural. Can you spot it?
Wife said this antique brass is her favorite trim color with the cedar barrels so far. I agree.
Tired of flying around looking for food, the hawk tested a theory that if it just sat in one place long enough the food would come to it.
We are expecting a repairman in the kitchen so I had to take down all the naughty gingerbread snowmen and snowwomen from the fridge. To replace them, I whipped up some whimsical but much less naughty bunny butt magnets. Cute as a button, eh?
(No actual bunnies were harmed in the manufacturing process.)
The wife complained that Grogu should have come with a stand because he keeps falling over. So while she was napping today I made a stand out of some scrap walnut and engraved instructions for use onto it.
#hotoffthelathe tonight is a turned and carved cedar bowl at 6.25" wide x 2.5" tall. Wife gave me a Master Carver Pro for Christmas which I used to carve out the 1" high band of dimples along the outer rim. This piece is from an outer section of log that grew into itself, leaving the bark inclusion in the bottom right and swirled grain like a burl.
#hotoffthelathe tonight is a Majestic style rollerball pen made from cedar burl. The second photo shows the pen blank before it was cut from the slab. The cap barrel is beautiful in its own right and would be stunning on almost any pen. But the burl in the bottom section makes the cap look bland by comparison.
We normally don't do exotic textiles like ostrich or snake, but my wife fell in love with this mummy-skin lamp shade and I caved.
#Hotoffthelathe tonight is another cedar pen. Looks much like the one from yesterday but that's because they are intended to be a matched pair.
The yellow box in the 2nd pic shows the blank before I "liberated" it from the parent wood. The jagged edge at right is because the wood developed deep cracks as it dried and became brittle. Much of the wood around the edges, like this piece, is too cracked and unstable for anything large.
Took forever, but I finally made something new AND what I'm calling "Possibly The World's Most Overengineered Pen Blank Squaring Jig" worked perfectly.
So today #hotoffthelathe is a Stratus pen with stylus tip made with a cedar wood barrel. This is the same cedar as the bowls I posted a while back and I'm giving the bowls and pen to the guy who gave me the wood.
TFW you realize you really are just a lowly underling as far as the cat is concerned.
T.Rob
I make stuff with code and with wood. Just, you know, not at the same time.
#actuallyautistic #cybersecurity #woodturner
Joined Oct 2022