Well, its a very snowy, cold day today and since Ive got my new bench tools on my new work table its time to go down to the wood shop and make something.
Ive mentioned in a previous post that a young friend of mine is getting married this spring. Her father is very ill and they understandably wanted to get married so her father could be apart of this.
I decided to make her a fruit bowl out of mineral stained poplar but the wood blank is too large for me to rough cut into shape. Since time is of the essence, I decided to make her a bowl out of a hickory blank from a tree that came down in a storm. The wood blank is unseasoned wood and so were going to have to cut it out and then dry it out before finishing it. Since it takes time for wooden bowls and plates that begin as unseasoned wood to dry out and for the whole process to be completed, Im going to have to work quickly.
Ive mounted the bowl blank on the lathe and begun cutting the exterior surface of the bowl:
Most woods have a scent of some sort and unseasoned wood tends to have a very sweet scent and this blank is no exception. The wood shop has a very sweet odor at the moment and if this were spring or summer time, my shop would be full of bees.Here we are after about 45 minutes of cutting and shaping:
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