Turn it or bin it?
I turn anything. If I think I can get something from a piece of wood on the
lathe it goes. At times it works, sometimes not. Cracked, part rotten, shake, whatever. Is this considered wrong? A friend mentioned that maybe I should be more selective but I don`t know, what do ye think? -- Boru Slack Linux #328989 http://counter.li.org |
Turn it or bin it?
Boru wrote:
I turn anything. If I think I can get something from a piece of wood on the lathe it goes. At times it works, sometimes not. Cracked, part rotten, shake, whatever. Is this considered wrong? A friend mentioned that maybe I should be more selective but I don`t know, what do ye think? If you are having fun and learning from it, why stop? |
Turn it or bin it?
Of course you should be more selective. That way you will miss the
opportunity to explore woods that some others may never have even considered only to find that it is something special. Your skills at working with these less selective pieces will only have to improve to work with less than perfect wood that may even carry over to those nice pieces of wood that you paid several hundred dollars for. Yes, be much more selective and turn everything that comes into your hand and have fun. brian |
Turn it or bin it?
Some of my best pieces have come from wood that I came close to
burning. You never know when you are going to be nicely surprised. Sometimes rotten, gnarly, knotty, cracked, or bug infested is just another word for character. Some of my most expensive pieces are from this group. Some people love that kind of stuff. You never know for sure until you turn it, sand it and finish it how its going to turn out. If you do enough of this kind of thing then you will learn to anticipate potential character. Ted On Nov 1, 7:49 pm, Boru wrote: I turn anything. If I think I can get something from a piece of wood on the lathe it goes. At times it works, sometimes not. Cracked, part rotten, shake, whatever. Is this considered wrong? A friend mentioned that maybe I should be more selective but I don`t know, what do ye think? -- Boru Slack Linux #328989http://counter.li.org |
Turn it or bin it?
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:49:00 +0000, Boru wrote:
I turn anything. If I think I can get something from a piece of wood on the lathe it goes. At times it works, sometimes not. Cracked, part rotten, shake, whatever. Is this considered wrong? A friend mentioned that maybe I should be more selective but I don`t know, what do ye think? Everyone is different, that's what makes it interesting.. For years, I thought you had to buy kiln dried blanks to turn stuff... Then I tried firewood and never went back.. Cracked? Pithy? knots? that's character... and what folks like to buy.. mac Please remove splinters before emailing |
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Boru wrote:
I turn anything. If I think I can get something from a piece of wood on the lathe it goes. At times it works, sometimes not. Cracked, part rotten, shake, whatever. Is this considered wrong? A friend mentioned that maybe I should be more selective but I don`t know, what do ye think? Simple pleasures in life are getting harder to find so whatever turns (you on). Wayne |
Turn it or bin it?
I think that you need to assess the end result for the turning before
determining what to do with a piece of wood. If you are turning a structural piece like a chair rung or leg, use only good, sound wood. For a decorative piece any wood that has so called that actually add to the character of the peice are good. As far as learning goes, what we do is extremely tactile and learning to turn around or through knots, cracks, voids and woods of varying texturesis part of the charm of less than perfect wood. Consider a burl, the decorative turner's dream wood. Here the notion of straight grain is absurd and there are likely to be cracks and bark inclusions everywhere. Turn it. -- God bless and safe turning Darrell Feltmate Truro, NS Canada http://aroundthewoods.com http://roundopinions.blogspot.com "NoOne N Particular" wrote in message ... Boru wrote: I turn anything. If I think I can get something from a piece of wood on the lathe it goes. At times it works, sometimes not. Cracked, part rotten, shake, whatever. Is this considered wrong? A friend mentioned that maybe I should be more selective but I don`t know, what do ye think? Simple pleasures in life are getting harder to find so whatever turns (you on). Wayne |
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