Woodturning - Rough turning burls, cherry and crotches.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ค. 2020
- In this video, I show how I rough turn burls, cherry blanks and crotches into thick bowl forms for drying.
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"Another beginner video" that some of us beginners really appreciate. I am intrigued by your common sense, and experienced, approach to the craft.
Thanks Robert, I notice when I started my TH-cam channel this spring that there wasn’t much of theses kind of videos on TH-cam so I’m glad I’ve none a few and still continue to do more of them , Jim.
Appreciate your efforts to show the process and your tools. Thanks!
My pleasure! Thanks!
Great class Jim even for a non beginner. Thank you!
Thanks Alain!
Beautiful pieces of wood! Do your magic Jim; there’s lots of gorgeous wood pieces waiting to be transformed into stunning art! Great job!
Thanks 😊
Definitely enjoyed it, answered my questions as I continued watching. Thank you for sharing 🥰
Thanks for watching
Hey, as one of the newer turners, I am very happy to have videos of the, "how to turn it," variety! Thank you!
Great! Thanks for watching!
Once again, you are the Professor. What makes these such great teaching videos is that you make very technical work understandable to the layman. Thank you.
It’s funny, sometimes I get chastised for being too detailed and long winded. But this is the way I prefer to do my videos, I want info, not just bling when I watch TH-cam videos, thanks!
its so therapeutic watching you turn.. so happy i found your channel. Thanks for all the interesting info as well. Greetings from Sunny South Africa
Awesome! Thanks 🙏🏻
Wood is sooo beautiful!
It sure is, thanks!
Beginner here - thank you for the treasure trove of information 👍🙏
My pleasure
I had a piece come off the lathe once and got very lucky. Instead of coming at me it went straight up and went completely through the metal roof of my shop. It was green wood so it had a lot of moisture in it and a lot of weight behind it. It was a piece of oak burn and like Jim said it had a hidden crack.
Wow. Lucky you weren’t hurt! Thanks
Nothing usual about your work. Of course you do get the best of nature's treasures to create art to its fullest affinities. Remarkable impressions of first turns !
Thanks! I’m fortunate to be surrounded by nature and wonderful trees to work with!
I'll bet the smell of some of these wood is wonderful. Like to see the raw to workable. Was a fun post, thanks for all the hard work you do for us to see. Like your channel a lot sir. Some stunning wood pieces, wow. Again thanks for all your hard work on both sides of the camera, outstanding sir.🌿 👍👍👍👍👍
Cherry is awesome smelling when roughing out, thanks!
14:27: and the one immediately following that! Absolutely gorgeous burls! Okay! The maple bulls at the end were my absolute favorites! I can imagine all sorts of spectacular inlays on those! 👏👏👏
Endless possibilities, thanks 😊
Faceshield saved me when a chunk flew off and hit on center of forehead. A loud bang, impact and then wth was that! Took a few minutes to gather my wits about myself and figured out what happened. Some pain but no blood and gave thanks for having a good faceshield.
Yup, it would of been painful without it. It still surprises me that some just ware safety glasses, thanks
Thank you for the master class. Love your expertise and what you create is amazing to watch. Jose from Melbourne . Australia .
Awesome, I seem to be creating a good following in Australia, please share with your friends, Jim.
I think it is so cool watching you work the wood you're very very talented
Thanks ☺️ I really appreciate it!
Sme beautiful pieces waiting to happen here
Thanks!
Having seen the promise of most of these first turned bowls, I don’t know how you have the patience to wait for them to “cure”/dry etc….. I would be itching to finish them off, and complete them….. probably why I’m a textile designer and painter 😉😉
Can’t rush thing when drying wood, lol. Thanks for watching
Enjoyed the whole video. If I could have taken shop In school I would have. My counselor informed me shop was Not for girls. Tat was before women's lib.
Yes, we’ve come a long way since then, thanks 🙏
The work you do is incredible! Those burls are amazing!
Thanks Lili!
Bill from Australia here .... I'm really impressed with your amazing style and creations. You have an absolute wealth of skill, knowledge, intelligence and great downtoearthedness ! .... just like some of us Aussies! Your wealth of quality wood there in Canada is truly fortunate. What is your favourite wood ? Mine is Huon Pine from Tasmania, I consider it the best this world has to offer, but it is very subjective .... just like ' who is the best guitarist?' The Huon Pine story is amazing ... not allowed to harvest the tree now .... there are three companies who have been given the licence to salvage trees from rivers in Tasmania ... these logs were lost when then sunk (abt 160yrs ago) and are now retrieved to supply us hungry turners ! Keep up the great work mate !!!!
Thanks Bill! I think us Canucks and you Aussies have a lot in common, other than you guys have decent weather year round, lol. I’ve never even seen Huron Pine so I can’t really comment on it, I have many favorites here in Canada. Cherry burl, maple burl are probably at the top of my list, I really love to turn butternut but it’s a protected species here in this Province and hard to get. I’m fortunate to have a couple large logs that I will process this winter or spring, might do another processing/coring video on it. Safe turning and thanks again for your kind comments! Jim.
I'm a lefty. I learned to sew at about 10 and had to cut right handed as they were no lefty scissors. My precious mother- in - law bought me my 1st pair of lefty scissors when I was in mr '20's I had to learn to cut fabric all over again. I used them for the longest time till they disappeared in a move. Got me some new ones as I had gotten to spoiled for righty scissors.
No doubt sometimes it’s a curse, but we’re the gifted ones, haha.
Another instructive lesson. As I’ve recently started coring, I’m looking forward to you doing a video on final turning and finishing.
Keep watching, lots of great stuff coming up.
interesting to view your older videos. I can see the progression you have made. I'm getting ready to work with a large cherry burl and recently picked up the oneway coring system so I was really glad to see you had made some videos on those subjects. Thanks!
Great, thanks for watching!
Great work Jim
J O Thank you 🙏
Great video and really appreciate the detail, you don't leave us trying to understand the "missing" edited out part. Just got a van load of my first crotch pieces, making this clip invaluable to a newbee....AND I am a leftie too. The crotches come from a kiaat (Pterocarpus angolensis) that sadly felled for a property development project here in South Africa. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Awesome, thanks David. Never heard of that tree before, safe turning. Jim.
Very impressed with your work ethic
Thanks 🙏
Good stuff
Glad you enjoyed, thanks!
Excellent video I learned a lot. Thank you!👍❤️
wanda piedra thanks!
Loved watching you rough turn the bowl blanks and your information was very interesting the grain in the different woods are lovely. When roughing a bowl out does it give you an idea as to what it's going to be like when finished?
Yes, it’s a preview to what it will be, sometimes the piece is better then you thought and sometimes it’s worse, lol. Thanks for watching
Love the live edge burl bowls
I just put a bunch of them in the kiln an hour ago, lol.
Some great looking wood
Burls are king, thanks.
I need to make one of those gauges for my chuck because that looks like it would be real handy.
It’s quick and easy, Jim.
Very well done! Thank You
Thanks!
23yrs of turning experience is well worth watching. I've been turning for not even a 3rd of that time and never will stop learning. Thanks for your time. Great videos!
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Thank you very much!
i was wondering about that till i watched this video and realized you were doing some of this outboard- had me messed up for a minute- tryig to figure out how the lathe looked right in some pics and backwards in others- kinda like a selfie! good stuff!
This is what us lefty’s need to deal with, lol.
Looks very Nice
Have you ever done any inlay with a Marble look
That could be awsome ♥️
Not with marble but mussel shell inlayed in the rim look similar to marble. Thanks 🙏🏻
I've been following you on Instagram for a couple years now and am lad to find you here!!
Awesome, lots a great content coming up!
The most important lesson that I took from this video is that I need better tools and a bigger lathe if I expect to get into bigger projects. Manly for safety reasons. For now I'm going to stick with candle holders and small vases. What lathe are you using? Thanks for another great video on what to do and what not to do.
I use a 20” variable speed General, they are no longer in business, thanks 🙏
🦌 deep in shavings...lol🌿
Yup! Thanks
Hey Jim I just love watching this video, look at those, its just like your first-ever sweetheart. Ernie smith from brisbane Australia
Thanks Ernie!
I'm also left handed. I'll bet we can do more with our right than the normal's can with their left!
The only tool that ever gave me a problem was a chainsaw - but we wont talk about that. lol
They will never know our struggle, haha.
I personally love the idea of coring so there is less waste of natures beauty. Atree does not deserveve to be nothing but wood chips if not neccessary. People do want small products.
I do try to use the compete tree whenever possible, thanks
Another fantastic, highly-instructive video! What sharpening system do you use for your gouges? Thanks
Just a Ellsworth sharpening jig on a 80 grit wheel that goes on my bench grinder. Jim.
Have you tried the Easy Cory Sharpening jig? It much faster, safer and more repeatable than sharpening the cutters any other way I tried. Also allows for minimal material removal.
If your referring to the one that is sold by Oneway that you screw the cutter too, than yes. If your talking about something else them I’m all ears. Ive been using a flat diamond stone to sharpen them lately and I’m reasonably happy with that, but there’s always a better way, lol.
Sprague Woodturning I was referring to the one from Oneway that you described above. It’s not perfect but I got pretty fast by the time I sharpened my 3rd cutter the other day.definitely worth having spare cutters if you take this path. Have you tried the carbide cutters?
I’ve not had any luck with the carbide cutters, I’ve broken two already. I isis ally have three or four of the high speed steel ones.
Great instruction on turning the bowls and using the ONEWAY coring set.... Did you use the Robust TOOL REST???? Thanks again for the info.....
Thanks, and yes that’s a Robust tool rest, Jim.
Great video! Question, after rough turning why do you seal the inside rather than the outside?
I seal the inside and outside of the bowls, it just might be done at different stages but always the same day. Thanks
Hey Jim. Any way you and your sone can come up with and idea so you could cut a bigger bowl?
This is the biggest bowl I can do. th-cam.com/video/RNgCQXHf2bc/w-d-xo.html thanks
I’d say 10% loss is quite a bit on the capacity of bowls you turn. Keep up the good work.👍
10% is too much for me, but it does create lots of design opportunities, lol.
When drying burl bowl blanks is it better to leave the bark on if possible?
Yes, thanks
After you rough out the first turn, what do you seal it with while it dries out.
A produce called Anchorseal from UC Coating, thanks
Curious as to why you sometimes turn the tenon on the tailstock side and sometimes on the drive side.. I'm sure there's a "method to your madness". LOL Just liked, and subscribed good vid, keep it up and I'll keep watching.
It usually just depends on if it’s going to be a natural edge bowl or not, sometimes it just depends on the grain as well.
Where do you find your blanks if you don't mind saying?
I put adds in my local buy and sell, sawmills, loggers. I’ve been in my current location for 10 years, so people just show up with them, lol.
About how long does a gouge last you?
When I was in full production I would burn up 1 or 2 of theses a year, thanks
Thanks for the video. I'm a newb. I have around 30 to 50 hours turning right now. I'm lucky enough at this point in time, to be able to turn smaller bowls from Kiln dried Pine blocks that we burn as a by-product where I work. Having said that, I'm struggling with green or semi-green wood. I don't have much patience to put bowls in bags for a year or so, and have never used anything like anchor seal, or any sealer. I've been putting them in a big container of silca based kitty litter for a week or more to dry them out.
At 18:34 you mention where your put your anchor sealant. In the bowl and on the rim. Is that true for most bowls you turn from green wood? What about logs that you have split in half to turn later in time? Where do you apply the sealer on those?
Thanks for the video as well.
When I’m roughing out bowls, I first Anchorseal the outsides, then when I take out the insides I coat the insides and rims as well. So, when it goes into my drying shed, it’s completely covered in Anchorseal. I’m not sure where your located, but if you live in Canada or the USA you can buy it from Lee Valley or UC Coatings directly. There are other places as well, just do a search for end grain sealer. Hope this helps. Jim
@@SpragueWoodturning Appreciate it. So the entire bowl is sealed after your done rough turning?
Yes, that’s correct.
What is the frig kil.n thank you for good details.
I will be doing a video on this when I get an old upright freezer. But, essentially I convert freezers into kilns. Jim
@@SpragueWoodturning ok good deal wanta catch that show.your on my list so I'm sure I'll see it.ty
What is a good source of burls?
Sawmills, tree cutters or put an ad in your local buy and sell. Jim
Im in the market for a lathe what would you suggest? Im not a rich man but a hard working man. What gauges would you recommend?
If you can find a used Oneway, I would go with that, the 18” Laguna looks good too. It’s really going to depend on your budget. If your going to do mostly bowls the a 5/8 Ellsworth gouge and crown 3/16 parting tool is really all you need.
Where in the heck do you find all of these burls?
I’m not sure where your from, but here in eastern Ontario I can get my hands on quite a few. It changes from year to year but people know that I work with them so the just arrive at my doorstep, haha.
@@SpragueWoodturning Upstate NY. Cant find any for the life of me.
What kind of lathe, please?
20” variable speed General.
@@SpragueWoodturning Thank you.
What’s the difference between a burl & a crotch please?
A burl is a big lump that grows on the side of a tree and a crotch is where two branches grow apart that look like a V in the tree, Jim.
I have a left handed friend and he can play my guitar but I can't play his.
Just restring it, lol.
love your videos but to long and to much talking. Not trying to be an ass just my opinon. keep your videios coming please!! And yes my spelling sucks!LOL
This is why I’m going to make an additional channel with condensed video. Thanks for your input.
A nice series of videos but I don't understand why you orient the crotch pieces with the feather figure on the top of the bowl. Most of the good figure will be turned into shavings.
Not sure what your seeing. All the bowls are oriented with the best figure at the bottom or foot side of the bowl. Jim
@@SpragueWoodturning at 10:21 I see a crotch figure on the top of the bowl, opposite to the chuck tenon. Correct me if I am wrong
That’s correct but it goes all the way through to the bottom as well.