Our members this month were challenged with turning a piece from wet wood. Again, those who took part showed off their creativity and produced some super pieces.
Category: December ’21: Wet Wood
Natural Edge Ash Bowl
28% moisture content but no distortion
Maple Crotch Bowl
Maple crotch bowl turned green with thin walls and bark inclusions.
Wet Walnut
Once turned walnut 3/16″ thick by 17″ long.
Oaken Branch Pot
For this project I have used an oak branch (about 7” in diameter) which was felled in the late summer….. while initially I though I might get away with no…
Wet Cherry branch
I was just given a few pieces of cherry branch, cut down just few days ago, just along the road. I was aiming for a thinner bowl on this little…
Wet work
So nothing really great, after a screw based initial disaster I had to go to a cut off which was quite punky in areas. Ended up with lots of filler…
More wet Leylandii
Another piece of the Leylandii. This time I did some wet sanding on the outside, but, once the inside was turned, it seemed a bit too delicate to do any…
Wet Leylandii pot
The only wet wood I have at the moment is the 4-foot stump of a Leylandii I cut down for our son a while back. We had left the stump…
Wet Wood Blue Cedar Dish
A piece of wet turned blue cedar unfinished which has a thin wall base. It has only warped a little turning slightly oval. I was hoping that it would have…
No warp drive here!
A spalted silver birch bowl that I turned into a thin walled bowl, about 3mm. it started at about 25% but unfortunately it did not warp as much as I…
‘Wet’ Wood Turning
This piece of Silver Birch was growing 24 Hours earlier; Is that green enough. I got soaked doing it ! ~It is now wrapped in shavings (a la Mike Waldt)…
Maple Branch Flowers
From a fresh cut maple branch. Twigs for stems. Just turned yesterday, so not sanded or finished.
Big Leaf Maple Natural Edge Bowl
Okay, I promise this is the last of my turned green pieces!! This bowl is about 13 inches in diameter by 4 1/2 inches high with a wall thickness of…
Big Leaf Hollow Form 2
This hollow form was cut from the same blank as the other submission except that this one was turned side grain to show the visual difference. Right off the gauge,…
Big Leaf Maple Hollow Form
Big leaf maple, approx. 7 inches by 4 inches, wall thickness is about 3/16 inch. This is a soft maple so it may move a lot. Turned end grain.