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Making a Natural edge Honey Locust crotch bowl
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Done a lot of natural edge bowls from honey locust, it is really hard stuff but takes a nice finish.
Good job keeping the bark attached
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Great job! Locust is a hard wood so I'm sure that wasn't easy.
Thanks for posting your videos here. You're about the only posting anything in the turning forum these days. I haven't turned anything in a while so I haven't had anything to post. Hopefully be back to it soon.
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Brutal start-up on that bowl! Nice job throughout, as well. Thanks for sharing.
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Only time I saw sparks from a chainsaw was cutting black locust. We had a barbed wire fence with black locust posts in the back yard separating us from the farm behind us. The land owner said his grandfather built the fence 100 years ago. Tough stuff.
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(10-28-2024, 05:22 PM)grwold Wrote: Brutal start-up on that bowl! Nice job throughout, as well. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. I had one of my honey locust trees cut down a few years ago, I still have 3 fairly large ones. I had them leave me an 8 foot section from the base of it. I roughed out one of the logs that ended up being a 20 inch bowl after rouging out. Had to do it off the end of the lathe. It was a very interrupted cut. It was not very fun.
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(10-28-2024, 02:29 PM)FrankAtl Wrote: Great job! Locust is a hard wood so I'm sure that wasn't easy.
Thanks for posting your videos here. You're about the only posting anything in the turning forum these days. I haven't turned anything in a while so I haven't had anything to post. Hopefully be back to it soon.
Thanks
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(10-28-2024, 01:53 PM)EightFingers Wrote: Done a lot of natural edge bowls from honey locust, it is really hard stuff but takes a nice finish.
Good job keeping the bark attached
Thanks