New Walnut Bowl

[Dusty Sawyer]

Just finished a new Walnut bowl on a new-to-me Delta 1440 lathe. The material was really awesome to turn. Finishing was more challenging than the Oak I've been working on, carefully taking it through each grit carefully checking for scratches every time.



I also posted several more new turning pictures in my gallery:


http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?cat=757

 

[Canuck]

Awesome bowl!

It looks like the bottom of the bowl goes on forever! Really great finish!:eusa_danc:eusa_clap:eusa_danc:eusa_clap

Can you tell us what you did to get such a great finish?

Thanks

Wayne

 

[jeff...]

almost looks like zebra wood - really cool :icon_thum

 

[DaveO]

WOW, that is some outstanding figure in that Walnut. It looks like a black (Walnut) hole :lol::lol:

Dave

 

[Kyle]

looks like english walnut. very nice.

 

[cskipper]

Spectacular!

 

[skeeter]

Great looking bowl. Awesome finish.

 

[MikeH]

Beautiful bowl Dusty!

 

[Dusty Sawyer]

looks like english walnut. very nice.

I'll take your word for it since you sold me the blanks :-D
Thanks again, btw

 

[Dusty Sawyer]

Awesome bowl!

It looks like the bottom of the bowl goes on forever! Really great finish!:eusa_danc:eusa_clap:eusa_danc:eusa_clap

Can you tell us what you did to get such a great finish?

Thanks

Wayne

Hi Wayne,
Well, we will see how it turns out is all I can say. I took it through all the sanding grits and put Danish Oil on it, but I found too many scratches in it. So I went back to a 60 grit and started over again up to a 240. Then covered it again in two coats of DO.

I put on a coat of poly, but it came out very bad and I removed it with mineral spirits before it had fully dried. This left the wood looking dry, so as an experiment I added a coat of oil which is used for wooden cutting boards. Don't ask me why, it just seemed like a good thing to do.

Finally, two coats of Bri-Wax. From some things I have read recently, I may have put the Bri-Wax on too soon. Some suggest that the oils need to breath for 30 - 60 days before the wax seals them. Otherwise the wax can become hazed. We will see what happens; it's not too hard to fix if that is the case though.

 

[sapwood]

Well spun bowl Dusty!

Roger