It’s truly amazing how much you can get from so little. In the future, I will be prone to throwing away less small cut offs and putting them to use. Thanks as always for your excellent tutorial.
This afternoon I will be going through my scraps and cut-offs bucket. I see now that the bits I’ve been using for kindling are waay too big. Thank you for a most useful demonstration.
Thank you for this great demonstration. I live in a heavily wooded area of Canada and can rarely process and seal all the nicely figured pieces in time. I often am faced with salvaging blanks like this. Glad to see I’m not alone. Additionally many people prefer small bowls, especially lidded ones.
Just amazing your approach to making the most out of a blank. I like small objects that display the timber character, and big is not always better. We have so much Tasmanian hardwood timber on our bush block, just asking to be turned into little works of wood art. Especially good are the varieties of She-oak, Casuarina………, Tasmania’s slowest growing most drought resistant timber, hard as to turn, the bark stays on and it makes really nice natural outer rim end grain bowls etc. The finish off the tools is excellent, so a simple wax finish looks and feels very attractive. Having watched your recent mini bowl’s videos has given me good ideas how to get the most out of some Huon Pine a friend obtained for me. I do not want to waste a mm more than I have to of this expensive timber-beautiful to turn and much sought after. Greetings from Tasmania Australia 😊
Far better than huon to my mind are Tasmanian goldiewood, horizontal scrub, leatherwood, and myrtle buttresses. I almost forgot Tas oak and stringybark burl.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Hi Richard, I am inclined to agree with you re the tasmanian timbers, in terms of features and colour the Huon Pine is low on my list, but after having done a survey with a selection of timbers in the form of small bowls. the preferred one was mostly the Huon Pine. Many years ago we had a Timber Engineering works just down the road where every Sat. mornings one could go down with a trailer and fill it with harwood off-cuts for $5. I stacked lots in a big carport, mainly because I thought it was too good to burn, even though I got through many trailer loads in the wood heater. I now have all these plank blanks to make into small bowls and boxes. So glad I saved a lot. Met a fellow at a local hand made market this am with a large display of Huon pine slabs/slices/planks of various sizes all having designed carved in. Long story short, after chatting to him he asked if I had a chain saw? yes, several, OK I'll bring some hardwood logs Blackwood, Huon, etc. round and if interested, they are yours for a fair price. Looking at the very low prices he was asking for his finished products, I gave him my address. Also bought a thick disc with a natural edge of really nice looking Huon Pine at a price you could not walk away from. I think he bought a load of tree trunks from a fellow selling up and he has more than he will ever need. They were set up outdoors under cover, it is a wet miserable day -first we've had for a while, snow on the higher peaks, and a big US Attack Class ship docked in Hobart for a few days, looks like a small aircraft carrier, flying off some twin rotating engined aircraft and a few jets for Remembrance Day. Enjoy your wood turning projects and also learnt a lot from your life story 'interview' project. Loved your comment when turning the spatula's with a skew, "don't start that nonsense about cut fingers etc" 😁
Very helpful. ... and timely. I have a couple of cottonwood logs that are drying and have splits that will need to be addressed. This has given me some good ideas and direction to pursue.
Loved how u used the scrap wood as a push guide
Thanks for the reminder that they don’t all have to be gargantuan!
Too true. Working small scale requires more precision with the benefit that there's far less mess to clean up.
It’s truly amazing how much you can get from so little. In the future, I will be prone to throwing away less small cut offs and putting them to use. Thanks as always for your excellent tutorial.
This afternoon I will be going through my scraps and cut-offs bucket. I see now that the bits I’ve been using for kindling are waay too big. Thank you for a most useful demonstration.
Thank you for this great demonstration. I live in a heavily wooded area of Canada and can rarely process and seal all the nicely figured pieces in time. I often am faced with salvaging blanks like this. Glad to see I’m not alone. Additionally many people prefer small bowls, especially lidded ones.
Well done Richard.
"..... I've already sharpened this band saw blade....." Wait.... Whaaaaat??? I'd dearly love to see how you sharpen your band saw blades.
A video from around 3 months ago ruclips.net/video/StWj3KaklHI/видео.html
Love everything you make and share. Thanks for letting us watch.
Just amazing your approach to making the most out of a blank. I like small objects that display the timber character, and big is not always better. We have so much Tasmanian hardwood timber on our bush block, just asking to be turned into little works of wood art. Especially good are the varieties of She-oak, Casuarina………, Tasmania’s slowest growing most drought resistant timber, hard as to turn, the bark stays on and it makes really nice natural outer rim end grain bowls etc. The finish off the tools is excellent, so a simple wax finish looks and feels very attractive. Having watched your recent mini bowl’s videos has given me good ideas how to get the most out of some Huon Pine a friend obtained for me. I do not want to waste a mm more than I have to of this expensive timber-beautiful to turn and much sought after. Greetings from Tasmania Australia 😊
Far better than huon to my mind are Tasmanian goldiewood, horizontal scrub, leatherwood, and myrtle buttresses. I almost forgot Tas oak and stringybark burl.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Hi Richard, I am inclined to agree with you re the tasmanian timbers, in terms of features and colour the Huon Pine is low on my list, but after having done a survey with a selection of timbers in the form of small bowls. the preferred one was mostly the Huon Pine. Many years ago we had a Timber Engineering works just down the road where every Sat. mornings one could go down with a trailer and fill it with harwood off-cuts for $5. I stacked lots in a big carport, mainly because I thought it was too good to burn, even though I got through many trailer loads in the wood heater. I now have all these plank blanks to make into small bowls and boxes. So glad I saved a lot. Met a fellow at a local hand made market this am with a large display of Huon pine slabs/slices/planks of various sizes all having designed carved in. Long story short, after chatting to him he asked if I had a chain saw? yes, several, OK I'll bring some hardwood logs Blackwood, Huon, etc. round and if interested, they are yours for a fair price. Looking at the very low prices he was asking for his finished products, I gave him my address. Also bought a thick disc with a natural edge of really nice looking Huon Pine at a price you could not walk away from. I think he bought a load of tree trunks from a fellow selling up and he has more than he will ever need. They were set up outdoors under cover, it is a wet miserable day -first we've had for a while, snow on the higher peaks, and a big US Attack Class ship docked in Hobart for a few days, looks like a small aircraft carrier, flying off some twin rotating engined aircraft and a few jets for Remembrance Day. Enjoy your wood turning projects and also learnt a lot from your life story 'interview' project. Loved your comment when turning the spatula's with a skew, "don't start that nonsense about cut fingers etc" 😁
Very helpful. ... and timely. I have a couple of cottonwood logs that are drying and have splits that will need to be addressed. This has given me some good ideas and direction to pursue.
It's usually worth sawing logs in half as soon as you can, lengthways along the major split. Then hopefully the wood shrings without splitting.
I could watch u all day. Except that I want to turn too haha 😂
Good stuff, always good things to consider, not every bowl needs to be giant.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing 🌞
Thanks again
Amazing!
How thick are those small blanks, approximately, please. Greetings from Tasmania Australia 😊
How about another option:throw the whole thing in the burn bin!!
So are you hoping to encourage waste and pollution, or are you trying to be amusing.
Audio could use a bit more gain! 🤍
The mic and I are doing are best.