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It's Wet

Wet is not something we're all that accustomed to, around here, you know. But, over the last few months, we've gotten an enormous amount of rain. So much, in point of fact, that, according to what I've heard, we've had more rain in the opening months of this year than we've had in the last fifteen years combined. As a consequence, it's really very wet around here. Meaning, my woodpiles contain wet wood.

I haven't turned a wet piece of wood in, at least, a couple years. I'd forgotten what it's like.

This morning, I came into the Dungeon needing to do something. I walked out back and picked up the first bit of wet wood I saw. A very small log - Podacarpus (read: Oleander), about 5" long and, maybe, 4" diameter, already shaped somewhat like a bowl, in it's oblongness. No photo of the log. I wish I had, but, I was just aiming to make some shavings, with no other goal in mind to speak of. But, when my very sharp tool started cutting very nicely, and shavings started flying, I thought,

Hey, I can do something I see lots of people in videos doing. I can "rough turn" a bowl, and set it on a shelf, for later treatment.

This is not a terribly pretty species, this Podacarpus, so it may not ever come to anything, in the end. Be that as it may, this morning, I rough-turned a small bowl - 4" x 2-1/2". It was quick (less than thirty minutes), and, I had some fun doing it.

I had begun by boring a worm screw hole in the fatter side of the log. And, naturally, when I drove it onto the screw and it hove to, the screw simply started auguring the very wet wood out of the hole. So, I stuck it between centers and went at it that way.

Now, while all this wood is wet, I want to do more. I'll need some shelf space, I think.

Plant Ingredient Cuisine Dish Wood


Ingredient Food Plant Wood Cuisine


Plant Ingredient Cuisine Spice Dish


Food Tableware Ingredient Recipe Staple food


Natural material Wood Tints and shades Trunk Tableware


Plant Wood Food Ingredient Winter squash


Very elementary stuff, really. I'm almost embarrassed to pollute my Beloved Buddies' heads with it. But, you know what? A little bit of practice doesn't hurt, much. Does it? I got some pleasurable practice in this. I made a nice, live-edge, bowl, with a clean lip, and a consistent wall thickness. And (this is big, for me) I didn't blow out the bottom. Also, I managed not to twist the foot right off of it, because I had the foresight that sometimes escapes me, in squirting some CA around the foot before putting it in the chuck.

I think I'm done, now.

Thank you.And, I apologize.
 

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#2 ·
It's Wet

Wet is not something we're all that accustomed to, around here, you know. But, over the last few months, we've gotten an enormous amount of rain. So much, in point of fact, that, according to what I've heard, we've had more rain in the opening months of this year than we've had in the last fifteen years combined. As a consequence, it's really very wet around here. Meaning, my woodpiles contain wet wood.

I haven't turned a wet piece of wood in, at least, a couple years. I'd forgotten what it's like.

This morning, I came into the Dungeon needing to do something. I walked out back and picked up the first bit of wet wood I saw. A very small log - Podacarpus (read: Oleander), about 5" long and, maybe, 4" diameter, already shaped somewhat like a bowl, in it's oblongness. No photo of the log. I wish I had, but, I was just aiming to make some shavings, with no other goal in mind to speak of. But, when my very sharp tool started cutting very nicely, and shavings started flying, I thought,

Hey, I can do something I see lots of people in videos doing. I can "rough turn" a bowl, and set it on a shelf, for later treatment.

This is not a terribly pretty species, this Podacarpus, so it may not ever come to anything, in the end. Be that as it may, this morning, I rough-turned a small bowl - 4" x 2-1/2". It was quick (less than thirty minutes), and, I had some fun doing it.

I had begun by boring a worm screw hole in the fatter side of the log. And, naturally, when I drove it onto the screw and it hove to, the screw simply started auguring the very wet wood out of the hole. So, I stuck it between centers and went at it that way.

Now, while all this wood is wet, I want to do more. I'll need some shelf space, I think.

Plant Ingredient Cuisine Dish Wood


Ingredient Food Plant Wood Cuisine


Plant Ingredient Cuisine Spice Dish


Food Tableware Ingredient Recipe Staple food


Natural material Wood Tints and shades Trunk Tableware


Plant Wood Food Ingredient Winter squash


Very elementary stuff, really. I'm almost embarrassed to pollute my Beloved Buddies' heads with it. But, you know what? A little bit of practice doesn't hurt, much. Does it? I got some pleasurable practice in this. I made a nice, live-edge, bowl, with a clean lip, and a consistent wall thickness. And (this is big, for me) I didn't blow out the bottom. Also, I managed not to twist the foot right off of it, because I had the foresight that sometimes escapes me, in squirting some CA around the foot before putting it in the chuck.

I think I'm done, now.

Thank you.And, I apologize.
Lookin' Good! That is some lovely wood. Like the shape,too.
 

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#3 ·
It's Wet

Wet is not something we're all that accustomed to, around here, you know. But, over the last few months, we've gotten an enormous amount of rain. So much, in point of fact, that, according to what I've heard, we've had more rain in the opening months of this year than we've had in the last fifteen years combined. As a consequence, it's really very wet around here. Meaning, my woodpiles contain wet wood.

I haven't turned a wet piece of wood in, at least, a couple years. I'd forgotten what it's like.

This morning, I came into the Dungeon needing to do something. I walked out back and picked up the first bit of wet wood I saw. A very small log - Podacarpus (read: Oleander), about 5" long and, maybe, 4" diameter, already shaped somewhat like a bowl, in it's oblongness. No photo of the log. I wish I had, but, I was just aiming to make some shavings, with no other goal in mind to speak of. But, when my very sharp tool started cutting very nicely, and shavings started flying, I thought,

Hey, I can do something I see lots of people in videos doing. I can "rough turn" a bowl, and set it on a shelf, for later treatment.

This is not a terribly pretty species, this Podacarpus, so it may not ever come to anything, in the end. Be that as it may, this morning, I rough-turned a small bowl - 4" x 2-1/2". It was quick (less than thirty minutes), and, I had some fun doing it.

I had begun by boring a worm screw hole in the fatter side of the log. And, naturally, when I drove it onto the screw and it hove to, the screw simply started auguring the very wet wood out of the hole. So, I stuck it between centers and went at it that way.

Now, while all this wood is wet, I want to do more. I'll need some shelf space, I think.

Plant Ingredient Cuisine Dish Wood


Ingredient Food Plant Wood Cuisine


Plant Ingredient Cuisine Spice Dish


Food Tableware Ingredient Recipe Staple food


Natural material Wood Tints and shades Trunk Tableware


Plant Wood Food Ingredient Winter squash


Very elementary stuff, really. I'm almost embarrassed to pollute my Beloved Buddies' heads with it. But, you know what? A little bit of practice doesn't hurt, much. Does it? I got some pleasurable practice in this. I made a nice, live-edge, bowl, with a clean lip, and a consistent wall thickness. And (this is big, for me) I didn't blow out the bottom. Also, I managed not to twist the foot right off of it, because I had the foresight that sometimes escapes me, in squirting some CA around the foot before putting it in the chuck.

I think I'm done, now.

Thank you.And, I apologize.
I have no experience turning wet wood so I cannot offer advice, but I would like to add a comment (or two).

Nice to see a non-traditional wood - never knew oleander was a woody plant - around here it is a very tender sort-of-perennial (it survives from year to if the winters ae not too cold). From the looks of your rough turning it appears that it has some nice grain patterns and a variety of colors in the wood. I look forward to the finished product.
 

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#4 ·
It's Wet

Wet is not something we're all that accustomed to, around here, you know. But, over the last few months, we've gotten an enormous amount of rain. So much, in point of fact, that, according to what I've heard, we've had more rain in the opening months of this year than we've had in the last fifteen years combined. As a consequence, it's really very wet around here. Meaning, my woodpiles contain wet wood.

I haven't turned a wet piece of wood in, at least, a couple years. I'd forgotten what it's like.

This morning, I came into the Dungeon needing to do something. I walked out back and picked up the first bit of wet wood I saw. A very small log - Podacarpus (read: Oleander), about 5" long and, maybe, 4" diameter, already shaped somewhat like a bowl, in it's oblongness. No photo of the log. I wish I had, but, I was just aiming to make some shavings, with no other goal in mind to speak of. But, when my very sharp tool started cutting very nicely, and shavings started flying, I thought,

Hey, I can do something I see lots of people in videos doing. I can "rough turn" a bowl, and set it on a shelf, for later treatment.

This is not a terribly pretty species, this Podacarpus, so it may not ever come to anything, in the end. Be that as it may, this morning, I rough-turned a small bowl - 4" x 2-1/2". It was quick (less than thirty minutes), and, I had some fun doing it.

I had begun by boring a worm screw hole in the fatter side of the log. And, naturally, when I drove it onto the screw and it hove to, the screw simply started auguring the very wet wood out of the hole. So, I stuck it between centers and went at it that way.

Now, while all this wood is wet, I want to do more. I'll need some shelf space, I think.

Plant Ingredient Cuisine Dish Wood


Ingredient Food Plant Wood Cuisine


Plant Ingredient Cuisine Spice Dish


Food Tableware Ingredient Recipe Staple food


Natural material Wood Tints and shades Trunk Tableware


Plant Wood Food Ingredient Winter squash


Very elementary stuff, really. I'm almost embarrassed to pollute my Beloved Buddies' heads with it. But, you know what? A little bit of practice doesn't hurt, much. Does it? I got some pleasurable practice in this. I made a nice, live-edge, bowl, with a clean lip, and a consistent wall thickness. And (this is big, for me) I didn't blow out the bottom. Also, I managed not to twist the foot right off of it, because I had the foresight that sometimes escapes me, in squirting some CA around the foot before putting it in the chuck.

I think I'm done, now.

Thank you.And, I apologize.
John, it is a shrub. But, it's a really big shrub. They're planted along highways and medians and in gore points. Often, one sees them along train tracks. Just like the Camphor - a Laurel tree - the one in my back yard from which I've gotten many a goblet, for instance, they get huge. Speaking of Camphor trees: I recently photographed a full-grown one over in Paramount. Waiit here a minute. I'll see if I can find it…

Here you go.

Plant Sky Green Natural landscape Tree


And, the little bit of local history I discovered that day.

Black Font Event History Document


World Black Font Line Adaptation


And, some more Camphor trees, lining a parking lot. A little more juvenile, in appearance.

Sky Branch Shade Road surface Tree


Now, what were we talking about?
 

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#5 ·
It's Wet

Wet is not something we're all that accustomed to, around here, you know. But, over the last few months, we've gotten an enormous amount of rain. So much, in point of fact, that, according to what I've heard, we've had more rain in the opening months of this year than we've had in the last fifteen years combined. As a consequence, it's really very wet around here. Meaning, my woodpiles contain wet wood.

I haven't turned a wet piece of wood in, at least, a couple years. I'd forgotten what it's like.

This morning, I came into the Dungeon needing to do something. I walked out back and picked up the first bit of wet wood I saw. A very small log - Podacarpus (read: Oleander), about 5" long and, maybe, 4" diameter, already shaped somewhat like a bowl, in it's oblongness. No photo of the log. I wish I had, but, I was just aiming to make some shavings, with no other goal in mind to speak of. But, when my very sharp tool started cutting very nicely, and shavings started flying, I thought,

Hey, I can do something I see lots of people in videos doing. I can "rough turn" a bowl, and set it on a shelf, for later treatment.

This is not a terribly pretty species, this Podacarpus, so it may not ever come to anything, in the end. Be that as it may, this morning, I rough-turned a small bowl - 4" x 2-1/2". It was quick (less than thirty minutes), and, I had some fun doing it.

I had begun by boring a worm screw hole in the fatter side of the log. And, naturally, when I drove it onto the screw and it hove to, the screw simply started auguring the very wet wood out of the hole. So, I stuck it between centers and went at it that way.

Now, while all this wood is wet, I want to do more. I'll need some shelf space, I think.

Plant Ingredient Cuisine Dish Wood


Ingredient Food Plant Wood Cuisine


Plant Ingredient Cuisine Spice Dish


Food Tableware Ingredient Recipe Staple food


Natural material Wood Tints and shades Trunk Tableware


Plant Wood Food Ingredient Winter squash


Very elementary stuff, really. I'm almost embarrassed to pollute my Beloved Buddies' heads with it. But, you know what? A little bit of practice doesn't hurt, much. Does it? I got some pleasurable practice in this. I made a nice, live-edge, bowl, with a clean lip, and a consistent wall thickness. And (this is big, for me) I didn't blow out the bottom. Also, I managed not to twist the foot right off of it, because I had the foresight that sometimes escapes me, in squirting some CA around the foot before putting it in the chuck.

I think I'm done, now.

Thank you.And, I apologize.
Nice turning and nice wood too. Always great to see those thin strips of wood coming off of wet wood.
 

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#6 ·
It's Wet

Wet is not something we're all that accustomed to, around here, you know. But, over the last few months, we've gotten an enormous amount of rain. So much, in point of fact, that, according to what I've heard, we've had more rain in the opening months of this year than we've had in the last fifteen years combined. As a consequence, it's really very wet around here. Meaning, my woodpiles contain wet wood.

I haven't turned a wet piece of wood in, at least, a couple years. I'd forgotten what it's like.

This morning, I came into the Dungeon needing to do something. I walked out back and picked up the first bit of wet wood I saw. A very small log - Podacarpus (read: Oleander), about 5" long and, maybe, 4" diameter, already shaped somewhat like a bowl, in it's oblongness. No photo of the log. I wish I had, but, I was just aiming to make some shavings, with no other goal in mind to speak of. But, when my very sharp tool started cutting very nicely, and shavings started flying, I thought,

Hey, I can do something I see lots of people in videos doing. I can "rough turn" a bowl, and set it on a shelf, for later treatment.

This is not a terribly pretty species, this Podacarpus, so it may not ever come to anything, in the end. Be that as it may, this morning, I rough-turned a small bowl - 4" x 2-1/2". It was quick (less than thirty minutes), and, I had some fun doing it.

I had begun by boring a worm screw hole in the fatter side of the log. And, naturally, when I drove it onto the screw and it hove to, the screw simply started auguring the very wet wood out of the hole. So, I stuck it between centers and went at it that way.

Now, while all this wood is wet, I want to do more. I'll need some shelf space, I think.

Plant Ingredient Cuisine Dish Wood


Ingredient Food Plant Wood Cuisine


Plant Ingredient Cuisine Spice Dish


Food Tableware Ingredient Recipe Staple food


Natural material Wood Tints and shades Trunk Tableware


Plant Wood Food Ingredient Winter squash


Very elementary stuff, really. I'm almost embarrassed to pollute my Beloved Buddies' heads with it. But, you know what? A little bit of practice doesn't hurt, much. Does it? I got some pleasurable practice in this. I made a nice, live-edge, bowl, with a clean lip, and a consistent wall thickness. And (this is big, for me) I didn't blow out the bottom. Also, I managed not to twist the foot right off of it, because I had the foresight that sometimes escapes me, in squirting some CA around the foot before putting it in the chuck.

I think I'm done, now.

Thank you.And, I apologize.
Great result mate.
 

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