The many faces of Yew - A DANGEROUS Woodturning project
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.พ. 2023
- For this woodturning project, I turned a small Yew tree into a beautiful piece of wood art. The wood has a beautiful grain that is both dangerous and beautiful. This project was a great way to explore the woodturning process and create a unique piece of wood art. Be sure to check out my other woodturning projects!
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Call it whatever you like. I call it beautiful. Thanks
Haha thanks Alan 😀
I love that wood. Can't wait for stuff to season though.
Yes is beautiful, I have another piece just arrive 😀
Bowl, Dish, Tray, Platter, Vessel, ??? I'm gonna call it a Plank 😂 A very nice Plank Mike, Only joking mate, seriously it looks great I had no idea how it was gonna end up but well impressed, Dave
Thanks Dave and to be honest if I had thought of plank that is exactly what I would have called it, perfect description :D
I loved watching your process, your piece turned out beautiful!!! Thank you
You are so welcome Richard and thanks 😊
Haha 20 years, Mike you have serious wood turner OCD, never throw any wood away. I have some great walnut logs from around 5 years ago in my wood bucket. I think the bark inclusion makes the piece more beautiful, thanks for sharing, good luck with the channel. Only 3.92k subscribers but 1,729,408 views, this channel will grow Mike.
Thanks so much, you should see my scrap tub, it's full of bit's so many people would just throw away. My sister came round and raided it for her log burner, I swear I let out an audible whimper lol.
Really appreciate your support, I know I've only been going a year but I am enjoying it so much and feel that I'm just getting started with the ideas and creativity, editing is a pain especially as I use two cameras but it's all part of the process. All the best, Mike.
Thoroughly enjoyed this❤
Glad you enjoyed it Diane 😀
What a wobble that yew had as it spun. Had me worried a few times. Lovely platter it turned out to be. Yew know your stuff my good man. 🏴👌🏻🤔😃
Haha and let the Yew puns begin 😋, there was a bit of a wobble when I tried to ramp up the speed. I would not have been able to turn it on my old lathe.
Great Project, Good work! Jew is my favorite Type of Wood!
Thanks, Yew is mine as well ☺️
Love the look of the yew
Me too Tim, they are just so pretty.
Another fine piece
Thanks William :D
Das ist sehr schön geworden. Die Farben und die Maserung kommt schön zur Geltung 👌
Danke Michael, freut mich, dass es dir gefallen hat.
Nice platter. Since it's not food safe it could make for a nice centerpiece on a decorated table.
Thanks Jake, I know, I believe it's new owner is doing just that with it 😊. All the best, Mike
You could put it on your dresser and call it a valet. To put keys on, or odds and ends on. I thoroughly enjoy watching you and listening to your thoughts. If there's any thing you don't know what to do with you can send it my way! 😂 Take care.
Haha Jacqueline, you would end up with more bowls than you could handle 😂
Mike Excellent piece, well done 👏👏👏👏
Thanks Doug, really had fun with this one, although it was a little scary at times.
You've intimated 92% of turners,, the rest of the turnees are frightened to death. Nice work dude 🔨👍🍺
Thanks 😂
Lovely plater colours in the wood are great
Thank you! Cheers Andrew, yew wood is always amazing!
Great video and lovely piece of Yew
Glad you enjoyed it 😃
That was terrifying. Yew crazy!
Hahaha, there were a couple of points when I had to keep an eye on my left sleeve as it was getting a bit close to the propeller blade :)
Mike you have inspire me to turn a piece of magnolia I have had for 6 months. Terry downunder
Cool! let me know how you get on, all the best, Mike
Gorgeous piece
Thanks Scott, this one was fun if not a little scary 😆
I love that it starts as a chunk of wood and evolves into a thing of beauty. Hopefully one day I will have that ‘eye’ 😊
Thanks Sam, it just comes from practice, keep going and I'm sure you will get there.
Very nice. Yews a nice wood. Great for lots of things, except as a food bowl/platter. Lol 😂.
Lol thanks 👍
I really like the bark inclusion in this one. I’ll join in calling it a plank. A fancy plank for sure. Nice work!
Haha, I'm calling the guy that bought it and tell him it's official title is the Plank 😂.
Yew did an awesome job on that really love the shape and the wood as always is stunning
Hahaha and the Yew puns continue 😂 thanks Colin 😆
Wasn't sure in the beginning but did a yew turn, and I love it! 😋🤭
Oh you're funny! 😂😀😋😜
@@MikeHolton I try Mr Holton 😋
@@fionacrouch1732 you succeed Mrs Crouch 😛
@MikeHolton not sure I should give up my day job just yet, though. Can't survive with an audience of 1 🤣
@@fionacrouch1732 Haha sounds like the early days of my channel 🤣😂😅
What a great looking centre piece yew has a natural beauty, you made it even better great job Mike great video thanks Paul.
Thanks so much Paul 😀
Great looking platter. Wishing I had a lathe. Keek up the good work.
Thanks Bryce 🙂
So Beautiful!!
Thank you! 😊
That is a lovely piece Mike. I love working with Yew the colours and the finish are just fantastic, and you have really made the best of that piece of wood
Thanks Steve, and even better, managed to turn this without loosing a finger 🤘 lol
@@MikeHolton That is the scariest thing about turning a piece like that, My brother did suggest i loose a finger doing a project like that just to get my viewing figures up. I didn't think i need viewers that badly
@@thehampshirewoodturner Completely agree, what would be worse though would be loosing a finger and not catching it on camera lol
that turned out nice
Thanks, I do like the way this one turned out.
It's definitely a platter, a fabulous one😊
Thanks Mike, glad you like it 😀
You did a great job but nothing beats what nature can provide us with. A stunning piece of nature at her best.
Couldn't agree more! Thanks 😃
Gorgeous piece of wood. You did a fabulous job with it.
Hi Doug, thank you so much 😀
To me it looks more like a plater, but it is beautiful 😍
I think so too! 😊
Nice looking project
Thanks 😀
Absolutely beautiful piece of art! 😊
Thanks Philippa, that is so nice of you to say.
Different and stunningly gorgeous.
Enjoyed watching that Mike, Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed it Jaxx :D
i just LOVE it when you make things other than bowls. this is fab - well done mate!!!
Thanks Dee, I'll keep trying to do more than just bowls although I do really enjoy making bowls lol,
Beautiful piece! Gorgeous wood!
Thank you very much Terry 😃
Fascinating to watch and thoroughly enjoyable. Thanks for sharing Mike.
Thanks James, glad you liked it 😄
Lovely platter. Yew is such a beautiful wood!
It really is, just wish it was food safe lol
Elegant!
Thanks Linda 😁
Thank you for posting these videos. I'm just getting started with the Nova Chuck and Wood Worm. Excellent work, Mr. Holton!
Thanks David, glad you are enjoying the videos and thanks for your support :)
Awesome piece. Great job as always 👍👍
Thank you so much Robert😃
Cool piece
Thanks Luie, this one came out way better than I had hoped for.
Thank you for sharing this video. You have re-sparked some inspiration for me.
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching. 😃
Bloody yew !!! I'm always amazed by that wood, and i love to work it... Awesome piece !
You and me both! Thanks, Mike 😀
Wow, that was a LOT of turning air. Well done. If you have made a small bowl in the middle, this would be called a winged bowl in my turning club.
Glad the cracks held up with the CA glue.
I do love the look of yew when freshly turned.
Dave.
Thanks Dave, you have me wondering now if I should have left a bowl in the middle..... next time perhaps. Air turning is always fun, trying to see where you are cutting.
Great job!
Thanks Donald, glad you liked it.
You always keep me guessing how each project will turn out. Thank you for sharing your skills with us.
You are so welcome! I really loved making this one 😀
I’ve turned a fair amount of these types of wood. Absolutely spectacular grain patterns and colors. Not to mention that it’s a softer wood so it’s a pleasure to turn. In my experience. Your projects never cease to impress me Mike.
Thanks so much my friend, yew has to be one of my favourites to turn.
@@MikeHolton Mine too Mike. I did get my hands on some red cedar that was an absolute joy to turn. The smell was just another bonus. I used every scrap of it I could. Even used a few 1”x1” little cut offs to make some pipes for some Gonks I turned.
@@k9insomniac783 When you get some nice wood you just don't want it to end.
Very nice.
Thank you! Cheers!
Some beautiful colours came out of that yew, thanks for making us aware its not a food friendly wood ,im just getting into turning so will watch out for that, Greetings from Wales UK ive subd you ,thanks for showing us your work Ant.
Thanks Ant, the two main wood species in the UK you have to be careful of are Yew and Laburnum, both can be dangerous. I love visiting Wales, been there quite a few times although it's a bit of a hike from Co Durham.
Perfekt! 👍🏼
Thanks so much 😊
Made a yew wood "magic" wand for my better half one Christmas. The piece was well seasoned, cut for 12 years and not a large section. The wand sat on a bough of the tree overnight..... It warped! So she has a curved wand made especially for her craziest spells. Perfect! 🤪
Haha, that's a great, I may give it a go, I would love to make a crooked wand. Thanks, Mike
That turned out quite nicely!
Thanks, must admit, I was not 100% confident going into this one 😃
Another beautiful job of turning sir. I can go along with another commenter in calling it a winged dish. The best for me is when I learn something from whomever I'm watching and what I learned here is that Yew is NOT food safe. Thank yew for the lesson. LOL.
Cheers,
Bill Riley
Your welcome Bill, indeed Yew like laburnum is poisonous but even more so! 😀
I think the description of a Platter is about right. Great choice of shape and use of the woods features such as the Bark Inclusion. Nice one. Cheers
Thank you very much Peter, this one was a lot of fun 😃
Beautiful work,really enjoyed watching
Glad you enjoyed it thanks
Hi Mike,
Just re-watched this vid and noticed you had snapped a screw.
I've found the best way to remove it is with a plug cutter. Various sizes available, usual comes as a set.
I have some but at the time I had totally forgot I owned a set lol
Lovely job mate
Thanks Barry :)
I believe I'd call it a platter of some kind. The wood is beautiful, as usual, Sir!
Thank you kindly, yeah I'm calling a platter going forward, not that I have to as it's already in the hands of it's new owner :)
Wow that turned very nice ,I’ve never seen yew wood turned before
It turns beautifully but you have to be careful with the dust. All the best, Mike
Great job as always 👍
Cheers Tom, I really appreciate your support 😃
Gorgeous piece of yew. It always blows my mind that someone 20 years ago cut that tree and stores it for that long. Amazing work! Love watching your videos.
Thanks William, I'm so glad they did, although that wood was hard as rock. When I first got it, it had a moisture content of just over 6% which is crazy low.
That's beautiful. I'm not experienced enough yet to make something like that. Just watching made me nervous. Thanks for showing everyone what is possible.
You are so welcome but give it a try, you never know what you can do till you try 😀
I love it and the gorgeous grain, I remember my first winged bowl, it frightened the life out of me putting my hands near a spinning propeller! You have made a new subscriber. Jane ❤
Thanks Jane, really appreciate your support 😊. Propeller is a great way to describe it, when I cranked up the speed it sounded exactly the same 🤣
beautiful wood a much longer piece would make a exquisite longbow.
Indeed Alan, it's hard to get hold of suitable pieces for bows, I would also not know where to start. May look into it though, thanks.
Great wood art as usual from your shop 👌
Thank you so much Tim 😀
Beautiful work!
I think the platter would look awesome as a centerpiece with a candle (LED one).
Yes I was thinking that as well 😃
I made something similar to that at school, some 60 years ago, but just with a shaped scraper. Mine was longer and thinner.
Nice that must have been tricky!
Lovely piece! I’ve been considering trying a non-round bowl myself and this just gives me more inspiration to try it.
Go for it! Just keep an eye on where the piece is in relation to your fingers 😃, all the best, Mike
I would call the piece, a "winged dish". To me, a dish is a shallow bowl. This is a very decorative piece, which people might be tempted to put food on. However, some pearly marbles, or similar, stacked or otherwise arranged, might discourage the food temptation .The colour is gorgeous! The feathering is lovely! Well done, on a tricky turning!
Thanks Stephanie, I love turning pieces like this as they need a lot of concentration so I can loose myself in it and become completely engrossed. I would do more but I'm sure people would get bored after a while lol 😀
Maybe a platter to empty your pockets into when getting ready for bed? Beautiful piece of yew however. Love your videos!
Not a bad idea, thanks for watching Jeffery, I appreciate your support 😃
It's amazing how often I watch these and have NO idea what shape is being revealed until it's almost done!
Hi Lou, sometimes I have no idea either 😃
I have brain got from long civic and felt quite spaced out watching this one trying to understand how the carving was working with such a uneven shape! Really enjoyed it still and thought it turned out beautifully whatever you decide to call it.
Thanks Jon, it was hard to carve as the area you're cutting is mostly a blur so you look at the opposite side to see a difference in the outline. You get a feel for where you are and what your tool is doing.
Nice - I've got a bit of Yew I've been trying to decide what to do with.
Have fun and keep your fingers well away from the wings :D
@@MikeHolton Oh yes - I learned that lesson a long time back! 😛
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Very nice "Platter?"
Thanks Jason, current favourite name for this is 'plank' 😁
Absolutely beautiful Mike! We don't find yew very much in Canada, but we do have a lot of eastern red cedar that rivals this grain.
I always bring the ends up on my pieces like this, so that I have a natural edge, with sap wood showing all around the "dish". But I really like the square ends too!
Congratulations on a year on TH-cam!🥳
Thanks 😀, I've never turned eastern red cedar but I have seen it, it looks amazing!!! This year has gone so fast :)
Still catching up on older videos...I really like this piece. The wood is interesting in grain and color, I agree the black CA just enhanced the center darkness of the wood and made it stand out as a feature. I've noticed in your winged pieces and in other turners' that something about leaving the straight edges of the end of log cuts bothers me. I think the straight ends fits this piece because there is no round "bowl" area in the center, the whole thing is gently dished on top, and the roundness in the base/foot flows better.
Looking forward both tomore catching up and seeing what you do for the channel's TWO year anniversary.
Thanks so much Susan, with pieces like this I prefer to keep as much as the natural shape as possible, all the best, Mike 😀
Иногда смотрю ваши видео и мне очень нравятся этот вид досуга, хочу попробовать заниматься этим. Творческих успехов ! Это великолепно.
Это приятно слышать, и именно так я начал. Спасибо
I've never seen a piece of yew turned before, it seems quite a fight, but it is beautiful wood! Either way, you ended with a really lovely piece.
Thank you very much! Turning it this way is a bit of a fight but it is a very hard wood, it was used for longbows.
sweet move brother
Appreciate it :)
What an outstanding creation. I was wondering which of CA glue you used to heal the cracks? Thanks again for sharing your beautiful work with us 🙏🏼
Hi and thanks! I used a black CA glue made by o3a works quite well 😀
Coin/key dish by the front door.
That's not a bad idea, thanks 😃
Very nice ... decorative platter? In any case, I had a moment of fear when the corner caught your sleeve on spin-up, because I didn't realize the "dangerous" in the title referred only to yew's toxicity. I wonder, too, if you could have cut the original stock essentially parallel to the eventual surface of the platter and thus also gotten two small matching bowls for it.
Thanks, I could have but I do not have to tools to do it successfully and safely lol 😀
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I’ve been planning on making something similar but with hickory. I think it will be fun just not looking forward to sanding.
Haha, yeah, the sanding was a bit of a bitch, use a palm sander on the fasces it works a lot better.
I had no idea you could turn something that isn't round. Too bad yew is poisonous, it would make a lovely food tray. Very nice outcome.
Yep, I will be doing a square plate soon 😊
Couldn't see where you were going with that, but its a lovely style
And looks so much better with the bark removed
What's the overall length of your lathe included the motor? As the motor sticks out by a foot-ish
Overall with the motor it's about 154cm so fairly wide, and I'm thinking about getting a bed extension lol
@@MikeHolton think I need to build an extension onto my shop 🤣🥴
Haha, I had to do some major rearranging to get mine in, but so worth it.
Hello. Im new to turning and am finding you work interesting. Please can you tell me about the "black liquid" in the squeazy bottle, what is it and who supplies it. Regards Pete (UK)
Hi Pete, sure, it's a black CA glue (superglue). I get mine from Yandles www.yandles.co.uk/tools-machines/adhesives-glues/ca-superglue/c655 . You need to use the accelerator, but not too much as it can bubble up. Don't use it on large gaps, for large gaps use a 2 part epoxy/resin or milliput. If you are unsure, give me a shout and I'll point you to the right video where I'm using the different ones. All the best. Mike
Nice work. Was that a nail you pulled out?
It was a screw that snapped when I removed the faceplate. It can happen, best way to avoid it is to pre drill the holes. Thanks for watching. 😃
Would’ve loved to see how you removed the tendon. Anyway it is beautiful.
Hi Vincent, sorry about that, I used a jam chuck I have a video out at three today in which I remove the tenon in the same way I did the Yew plate. All the best, Mike
New to your page. Very nice work! What ratio is the bees wax and linseed oil. Thanks 🙏
Hi Nick, thanks for watching. Ratio was about 7:1 oil to wax, you can watch me make it here th-cam.com/video/5k_hyMysoMk/w-d-xo.html All the best, Mike.
Красиво сделано! Я бы сделал чашу с загнутыми крыльями, тогда было бы менее опасно точить!
Я думал об этом, но решил оставить это в покое. Спасибо за просмотр.
What ratio of oil and shellac do you use?
It depends on how your shellac is mixed but if it's a normal mix then about 50:50 will be fine. Apply thin layers and see how it builds up
sushi boat!
Nice idea but yew is not food safe. I'll make another with a different wood.
What are the dimensions of this sheep please, my wife really loves these. Thanks
Hi Steven, it's about 12" long, 5-6" wide and 3" high. All the best, Mike
nice piece. if you had split the log lengthways first you could have made two of those
So true but I did not have the equipment to do it properly at the time 😃
surly you have an axe and a hammer😀
@@thedogsboll Haha I do but it never occurred to me lol
The “bark inclusion” is partially rotten pith - very typical in Yew. You were lucky that it didn’t split and become a propeller!!
Hi David, sorry to disagree but if you pause the video at 2:09 you will clearly see two piths and the bark inclusion between them. All the best, Mike