Cherry Bowl

It has been a busy month or so... I finally got around to starting a new turning project. Over the winter I visited Wood World in Dallas, TX and found a piece of 12x12x3 cherry for $8. It had a crack in it, but for the price I decided I could work around that.

This project spanned several nights. I filled the outer crack with super glue and fine saw dust, the inner crack I tried filling it with blue inlay dust. However the blue material was too coarse to fill the crack fully. I sanded a good deal of it out and replaced it with saw dust. I sanded it to 400 grit and then finished it with 2 coats of danish oil. This is a thick walled bowl that feels good to hold and at the moment is doing a fine job holding oranges on the kitchen table.

Now time for the pictures.

My next turning project will be a shallow bowl from a piece of black mesquite I have sitting on the rack.

Shift knob

Tonight I turned a shifter knob for my truck. I turned it from a piece of persimmon branch that I picked up from the farm I grew up on. I chose persimmon because of is nice grain pattern and the light color. I am hoping that with a light oil finish the wood will develop a nice patina. It was a fairly simple project, so there might be more shifter knobs to come. I hope to have pictures soon.