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Hi folks,
not having much luck with finding a finished photo of the bowl, we have still got it so I will take a new photo and post it. It was a big walnut tree that had to come down as it was in the way of the new fosse ad as we don't like to do tha sort of thing to trees it seemed rather nice to make something to keep out of it, I'm looking forward to the 10 seater dining table at about 30-4-cm thickness but its not stable yet.
Its the other half who's the real turner me as I said previously I'm just Dangerous I would'nt like to try anything on this scale.I usually like to hack at stuff with an arbortech and burn it with a blow torch and other lethal efforts!
However trying to answer your queries and OH is shy, Its Wadkin RS80 looong bed with a varialble speed added , it is actually glued to the floor cos of underfloor heating! The piece of wood was actually bigger than that at on set as the band saw was'nt big enough,chainsawd to start with and took my son and OH and me to get it on the lathe and several attempts later after messing about with gravity started Waddy up with me and offspring other side of work shop. All was tranquille!
The piece was semi green cut down 2 years previously to being roughed out then left under shavings and then paper sack for a year.This photo was the roughing out stage.
We have a VB36 ( didn.t have it then!) also a small axminster and later this summer hopefully a Wivamac, why so many?
The Wadkin with its long bed is good for newel posts an columns and roughing out largish bits, VB for the bigger stuff and for general more accurate turning and wivamac for expos as its the smaller one and therefore more portable and the axminster was too small for the job really.
I will get the technical stuff about the grind etc from OH later when he comes in, promise.
bye for now
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