Amateur Turning - Segmented Pot

Very Nice, George! You've done partucularly well with the contrast and the placement and choice of the segments.

Well, I'm sure George appreciates that, although I've never noticed him mentioning that he does segmented turnings. But how about my stuff? ;-)

Greg G.

WHAP! Yeah, your stuff was pretty good.

Gee my spelling also took a hit. Sigh.

Hi Greg

Looks good Greg, it's not my cup of thee, but I think you did a very nice job on both, a profile picture of the bowl would give us some better idea of the bowls looks, anyway as I always say, have fun and take care.

Hey Lobby you smoking something ????? ~~~~ Or is it "what the hearth's full of, the mouth runneth over" ???

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Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

That's OK. I have days like that.

Greg G.

Thanks Leo. I do regular turnings as well, but live in a city and don't have much in the way of blank wood available very often. You should see what they want for a piece of firewood in the big city... HA!

Greg G.

I wish! ;o)

Greg, Cool work, buddy. Got a Forrest blade at the woodworking show this past weekend. Supposed to be such a clean cut I thought it might help me doing some segmented stuff.

In the walnut section are those thin slices of alternating material? I'm going to ask more details later so I can give it a try.

Again, nice work. Thanks for sharing.

TomNie

Hi Greg

I live in the city too, and there are more different trees and bigger trees growing in the city than out there in the bush, but you do have to go and look and talk to the people that take them out, or cut them down or trim them. We have a city wood dump for logs and chipped up wood mulch, people are free to help themselves to it. Also the tree trimmers from the electric utilities people have branch wood and or logs, professional tree trimmers are usually glad to get rid of the wood, parks department also, one of those bowls you made can get you more wood than you know what to do with, but you have to go and find the persons doing the cutting. I have cut up logs and kept some for myself, and brought a lot of blanks for the guys and gals of the wood turning club, you could do that and also trade with those that have some special wood.

Tom,

Sorry for taking so long to reply, but my time on Usenet has been limited to a few two line blurbs for 2 weeks.

Thanks for the compliments! Although many suggest otherwise, I have been getting good cuts with a WWII blade and my Segment Jig (DAGS) on a relatively new factory re-furb Unisaw that I tweaked-up. I have not had to sand the individual segments (ala Curt Theobald), only the rings. The joints are tight, but I am careful/methodical in cutting them.

Yes, in the feature ring of the bowl, there are alternating thin segments of maple, makore, and maple - as well as rings above and below. This picture may show the detail better:

Greg G.