The most ingenious ways of turning a massive piece of wood into a teeny-weeny piece of wood! Whoever has the job of sweeping-up at your place doesn't get paid enough!
...well, the name of the vid caught my eye and I wondered what it was...then I read the description and found it was a type of wood. Never heard of it so I looked it up (I seem to do that with a lot of your vids...😉)...interesting tree...but it sure makes a beautiful platter!!! At first I thought you were going to turn away all the wood...then realized you were making a pedestal...it looks amazing!...👍👍👍
This is incredible! Weird coincidence... just yesterday, I discovered this wood for the first time and fell in love, now, if only I could find a piece, haha!
It’s very hard to come by. Iv been turning for a long time and this was the first chunk iv been able to get my hands on, as I understand it the tree is generally protected as it’s native lands have been heavily deforested causing it to be somewhat endangered, this means we only get it when I tree has been felled for safety reasons. It’s always nice to get a piece of wood to turn but I’d never want to turn a tree that has been harvested solely for its timber. Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Whoa! The grain is quite special ever. And, you formed the log like a fountain base (laying on pillar) that normally was decorated in old European gardens. Could you add a fountain in this piece, and take photo of the final outcome? Thanks.
@@JackMackWoodturning Nope I do both hardwoods and soft woods. Resin I like to to pine is because not only is it very beautiful but some pine types have tons and tons of branch knots
Cheers Paul, when people say “a waste of wood” I always like to hear your suggestion for how to utilise the piece of wood. What are your suggestions? Cheers
@@JackMackWoodturning you know how expensive wood is more so if it's exotic wood I know sometime when creating something waste is expected sad to say what I have done sometimes to save wood is cut the blank down on Bandsaw or use a waste blank and turn project leaving a small blank attached to waste block lovely work though
Hi Paul, thanks for your reply man. I appreciate what you are saying, when possible I would trim pieces off on the bandsaw especially if they are able to be reused. In this case I cut the knots off the outer edge of the log when getting it down to size. I use these for lids on small boxes. Unfortunately due to the form I was creating with this piece there is no safe way to remover the wood that was turned way to form the pedestal. The other way to go would be to turn the bowl and the pedestal from two separate pieces and join them. In this case I wanted the grain and colour to run uninterrupted through the entire piece. 👍🏻👍🏻
@@JackMackWoodturning yeah sometimes waste is inevitable I agree when turning something that you want as one rather than two stuck together there is going to be a waste you know woods expensive and like this piece beautiful always a shame to end up with a pile of shavings
I find that shavings are only waste if you waste them. I produced about 10 cubic yards per month ( full time turner) that go off to a local community farm with very low funding, the shavings are used for animal bedding and then composted for use on their vegetable garden. Keeps all that carbon locked up.. fortunately I don’t pay a great deal for wood and I only turn trees that have grown locally to me. 😊👍🏻
Not experienced at all about woodturning, watching this video is like a thriller. A hundred times I thought "stop now, it already has such a nice form" but no.......cut cut cut cut. I assume you have the form to achieve complete in your mind, or is it also more taking shape during the proces? Very beautiful, inspiring. A museum piece in my opinion. I see there is a Center for Art in Wood in Philadelphia PA. Interesting, have to go once upon a time. Wish you the very best and far more beautiful creations. Greetings from The Netherlands. Land of clogs. Among other things.
Thanks Ernst, much appreciated. I do have an idea of form before I begin removing wood, but what I reveal is what truly dictates the final shape. Thanks for watching 👍🏻😉
I have been a subscriber for awhile, but just now saw this video. I have turned Norfolk Island Pine, but not a big piece. This is just such a great work, another reason you're one of favorites to watch.
Impressions: 1. Beautiful piece of NIP. 2. Nice work on cutting the French curves on the base. 3. I have large plate jaws with rubber feet so I only have to cut one tenon on what will be the base. 4. I would like to have you stop the lathe more often to see what is happening to the NIP branches as you form the bowl. 5. Many turners soak the NIP branches with thin CA, as they tend to crack or break out. 6. NIP is notorious for tearing out when turned, and you had trouble with that on the base. There’s no solution but more sanding.
Cool video - but I was wondering all along what a monkey puzzle was and how you turn one. Only at the end did I figure out there is actually a tree called monkey puzzle! Very nice platter though.
I would like to see how you got rid of the tenon on the bottom? Very nice work, it inspired me to try to think more out of the box while turning. Awesome!
Thanks Rebecca, to be honest it’s not the nicest wood to work with but it does have some striking features because of the way the tree grows. Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That looks amazing!❤️👍 I wonder how that tree looked before cut down! Later edit: Ok, I've searched monkey puzzle tree on google! Now I know why that piece of wood looks like that👍
I started with a cross section, bark included but getting it down to a size that would fit on the lathe would have made for a pretty boring start to the video. It’s always difficult to decide which pieces of the process to show and what could be boring. 🤣 Thanks for watching mate. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Beautiful piece, I'm not good on a lathe, but I do enjoy making furniture and reproducing antiques. You are very talented, keep them videos coming I'll be waiting my friend . Be safe .
Thanks for watching gene, it’s very nice looking wood but it’s not very nice to turn, mainly because to achieve this effect you need to turn them in an end grain orientation, and that just never fun 😆
That looks sweet!!!! How many times did you change your mind on the design?? I think I seen at least 3 or 4 LOL Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Probably about 59 times 😆 glad I managed to hide most of them. Cheers for watching and thanks for the thumbs up. I wish everyone slammed that button 🙂 Appreciate you following along 👍🏻