Woodturning: Ash Crotch Bowl Crack Repair
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- In this video I am woodturning an ash crotch bowl after it had been rough turned and dried. During the drying process a significant crack developed that I thought was just a bit too dangerous for final turning, so I strengthened it with resin and CA glue. Then after the entire piece was finished, I hid the cracks with a burned in tree image.
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Tools and I use in my videos and some product links:
Stihl 391 chainsaw
Robust American Beauty Lathe & tool rests - woodchuckers.com/ ,www.turnrobust....
Oneway hollowing system oneway.ca/prod...
Oneway scroll chucks woodchuckers.c..., oneway.ca/, oneway.ca/
Vicmarc scroll chucks, lathes, steady rests, etc. www.branchesto...
General Salad Bowl Finish woodchuckers.c... , www.amazon.ca/...
Sandpaper woodchuckers.c..., sandpaper.ca/h..., stockroomsuppl...
5/8” roughing bowl gouge - Woodchuckers, Lee Valley, Busy Bee
5/8” bottoming bowl gouge - Woodchuckers, Lee Valley, Busy Bee
1/2” finish cut bowl gouge - Woodchuckers, Lee Valley, Busy Bee
1” skew for shear scraping - Woodchuckers, Lee Valley, Busy Bee
Easy Wood carbide tools - Woodchuckers, Lee Valley, Amazon, Busy Bee
Coring System - Oneway, Woodchuckers woodchuckers.c...
Korpro carbide cutter tips from Hunter for the coring system branchestobowl...
Vicmarc steady rest branchestobowl...
Epoxy/Resin - Woodchuckers, Lee Valley, Amazon, resinate.ca/pr..., designerepoxy....,
Rangate Knot and Crack Filler - canada.rangate...
Andre Martel calipers martelhooktool....
CA glue - Stick Fast at woodchuckers.c... or Lee Valley
Woodburner - Razertip www.leevalley.... or Burnmaster at www.chippingaw...
Beading tool - d-waytools.com...
Respirator/faceshield: Sundstrom from Woodchuckers in Canada woodchuckers.c... or from Woodturning Wonders in the US woodturnerswon...
LED magnetic light - www.cindydrozda...
Veritas Carbide burnisher (for negative rake scrapers) www.leevalley....
This video is for entertainment purposes, woodturning can be dangerous, follow all safety precautions when using your tools and equipment and get proper instruction/training.
Well done. It put a smile on my face seeing the tree burnings put in there to naturally make the cracks disappear in the drawing.
I've got two roughed hollowforms about12" tall x 12" wide in birds eye maple. Many years ago I was taking a class at Craft Supplies USA in Provo Utah, and they just got in a couple of pallets of birds eye maple logs. As they were about to run those ithrough the mill I asked if I could buy two log cuts off the end of one of the logs, and they said "Sure".
They were roughed, but still cracked a bit near the bottom, and I've always thought that the best way for them to look super when I get around to finish turning them was to do exactly as you did. Just burn/carve in a tree or root or reed like drawing using the cracks as starting points.
Super nice job you did. Thanks for the video.
Thanks, I must admit that I now do this for quite a few of my pieces now to hide the cracks and everyone loves the look of the tree image. I sketch it in pencil first and then use a pyrography pen…good luck and hope it works for your hollow forms.
Wow, Frank! Not only are you a woodturning artist but a woodburning artist! And putting the tree on both outside and inside? Icing on the cake. (I don't often use exclamation points, but this calls for them.)
Thanks, I cheated a bit because the wood burning covers up that crack nicely on both the inside and outside of the bowl 😁
Hi Frank, Very clever and captivating way to make the best of what your had. I found your video by Google searching “how to handle a live oak bowl that cracks”.
Thanks for the feedback and checking out my video.
Nice work Frank!
Thanks
This is the first time I have watched this channel. The biwl is nice..very nice! I wouldn't have thought to use pyrogralhy, to hide the crack. Very ckever! It looks realky goid, too@
Thanks for watching
Nice piece ❤
Thanks
Thanks for the drawings and explanation. Nice tree addition! I seem to have trouble with a pyrography pen following the grain rather than where i am attempting to burn, any advice?
Thanks. Yes, I sometimes have a bit of that problem on grainy wood like ash or oak, but my images of trees are always kind of free form so a bit of movement of my pyrography pen is not really that noticeable. Only advice is lots of practice, a steady hand and always pull the pen towards you to have the best control. I do also from time to time sharpen the pen knife edge so it cuts in clean and then tends not to slide around as much and I also often clean the slag off the pen with a small wire/brass brush if it builds up. Good luck