found some special sauce

[Mark Anderson]

shortly after seeing the pens turned out i noticed that a town crew had dropped a sycamore for safty reasons, sunday in the rain w/ everybody in church i managed to sneek off with some. the tree was badly rotted, the but log hollowed out to a 6'' wall of the 30'' dia. i manged to get several burls and an intresting croched limb with a spiral patern to the bark.

from the limb

 

[NCPete]

jeez, too bad you couldn't get any pretty wood from that tree.....

nice bowl!

 

[jeff...]

Spalted Sycamore is really pretty stuff, great find :icon_thum

 

[Mark Anderson]

i still have hopes to find some prety stuff

 

[DaveO]

Beautiful bowl, Sycamore is starting to rank right up there with figured Maple as one of my favorite woods (but easier to turn). I lok forward to seeing what comes out of the burls you got :icon_thum

Dave

 

[NZAPP1]

Great find and a beautiful bowl :icon_thum Looking forward to what is next :eusa_danc

 

[Eaglesc]

I haven't turned any spalted sycamore, but I like turning the wood.
It cuts well for my glue ups and the "grain" is almost mesmerizing in that it isn't really there but yet it is.(in the unspalted stuff I have turned.)
There are sections of it that are "translucent white". I save those pieces for special glue ups.
Oh yeah, nice bowl, but what do I know about turning bowls? I only turn pens.

 

[jeff...]

I haven't turned any spalted sycamore, but I like turning the wood.
It cuts well for my glue ups and the "grain" is almost mesmerizing in that it isn't really there but yet it is.(in the unspalted stuff I have turned.)
There are sections of it that are "translucent white". I save those pieces for special glue ups.
Oh yeah, nice bowl, but what do I know about turning bowls? I only turn pens.

Eagle - I don't turn wood at all, but I do agree with you, sycamore is one of the more pretty woods out there.

 

[clowman]

Nice bowl! Looks like you still have some diamonds to find in your wood pile there.

 

[skeeter]

Great looking bowl. I hope you find more figure in the wood and especially the burls.