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[John in Abbotsford]

Managed to find a bit of spare time to play on my newly aquired lathe, these two turnings were done over the weekend.
Black Locust Platter
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Black Locust hollow vessel and platter
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Black Locust hollow vessel
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[J.P.Rap in Hamilton]

cool!!
How was the black locust for turning. Ive turned locust in the past but I think it was honey locust.
J.P.

[John in Abbotsford]

Thanks J.P.
It is a beautiful wood to turn and it sands so nicely to a high polish.
I have to the Randy in Langley for the wood and Andy from our group in actually finding the wood.

[Rusty]

Great job - lovely pieces. How did you sand over the voids, using a power sander? never tried locust, yet.

[KenR in Whitby]

WOW!

[Jarratt-in-Ontario]

The simplicity of the forms let the beauty of the wood make the statement. Like to see more of your work. Jarratt

[Mike Brazeau]

Looks like you are having fun John. I know this forum is not usually one for critiques and everything pretty much gets a "great work" etc., but I think we all want to be continually improving. I can speak from experience as I did the same thing on a large Box Elder vegetable tray in a guild competition a couple of years ago. I didn't get anything because I had not finished the dovetail bottom where I had held the piece in the expanded chuck jaws. Otherwise the piece was excellent in design, conformation and finish. You could reverse the platter on a jam chuck or possibly a vacuum chuck if the indents don't come in too far, and just relieve the inside edge and finish equivalent to the top. I made some hardwood sleeves out of iron wood that can fit over the live centre and not indent when reversing. Much like the Oneway tailstock centre. Otherwise your work looks very good. I have a bunch of Honey Locust which is about a couple of years old and will be hard as h... now. Really nice to turn though, much like ash but somehow brighter and a bit more colourful. Like J.P. haven't had any black locust to try. Keep 'em coming.

Mike

[John in Abbotsford]

Hi Mike and thanks for the comments,
I've only just started turning and am really enjoying it.
I showed the platter to the president of the local turners club and he made the same comment about the bottom, If I were to submit it for judging I would need to properly finish the bottom, but for now I have no means of doing this however just yesterday I managed to get a good high quality vacumm pump which I intend to adapt for use on the lathe for vacumm chucking as well as veneering.

[Mike Brazeau]

You are doing very well John. Vacuum chucks are very simple. I have made several and even have a design that will fit in my Stronghold chuck. Have posted below. I didn't have many faceplates for my old bowl lathe and didn't want to dedicate to a vacuum chuck. Best results are with ABS plumbing fittings rather than the peipe. Jam chucks are not hard to do either and that final stage of finishing really makes things look the best.
Mike



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