General Finishes - Youth & Student Wood Turner (25 Years Or Under)

Curly Maple Calabash Bowl

Charlie Hamilton — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:36:16 +0000

This maple salad bowl is 12" in diameter and 5" tall. I made this bowl out of some local wood that was destined to be turned into firewood. This bowl has a lot of interesting character including curly and flame.

The finishing process for this bowl started at the lathe with sanding. I sanded with and electric power sander from 120 grit to 320 grit. Next, I lightly raised the grain with water, and set the bowl to dry. After drying, I contenuied the sanding process going from 320 grit through 600 grit. Next, I took the bowl out of the chuck and turned it around into a jam chuck to turn of the foot. After turning and sanding the foot I signed the bowl with a woodburning tool. Finally, I took the bowl out of the lathe and applied a few coats of all natural walnut oil for a food safe finish. To apply the finish I first coated the whole surface libraly and spreaded it to cover the whole bowl. I conteniued to apply walnut oil in this manner untill the bowl would not soak up anymore.

This is my usual finishing process for salad bowls. This product makes an all natural food safe finish which really ecsentuates the bowls to natural beauty, while still allowing the bowl to be used to years and years.

Products Used

Mike Mahoney's Walnut Oil

Beech Wood Trio Set

Charlie Hamilton — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:51:38 +0000

These beech hollow forms are made out of some local wood. They at have lots of color and figure.

The finishing process for these hollowforms started at the lathe with sanding. I sanded with and electric power sander from 120 grit through 600 grit. After turning and sanding the foot I signed them with a woodburning tool. Finally, I took the hollowforms out of the lathe and applied a few coats of all natural walnut oil for a food safe finish. To apply the finish I first coated the whole surface libraly and spreaded it to cover the whole bowl. I conteniued to apply walnut oil in this manner untill the bowl would not soak up anymore. This leave a nice satin finish.

Products Used

Mike Mahoney's Walnut Oil

Winning Category

2nd Place

Flamed Figured Maple Salad Bowl

Charlie Hamilton — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:43:24 +0000

This maple salad bowl is 15" in diameter and 4" tall. I made this bowl out of some local wood that was destined to be turned into firewood. This bowl has a lot of interesting character including curly and flame.

Products Used

Mike Mahoney's Walnut Oil

Mean Green

Crystal Worley — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:17:13 +0000

My 12 yr old daughter turned this Maple Burl bowl and picked out the dye for it. Wasn't quite the shade of green she had hoped for but she was still very proud of her work. She has been turning in for almost 2 years now and I am very proud of her.

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GF salad bowl finish
Sanding sealer
Green Dye

Black Pearl

Crystal Worley — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 01:54:18 +0000

This Black Walnut vessel was turned by my 12 yr old daughter. She so enjoys wood turning especially the sanding process. I have given her my first lathe a Jet 1642 as she is turning all on her own now doesn't need much help from dear old dad. I think she has amazing potential. I have made most of her tools myself they fit better to her hands.

Products Used

GF salad bowl finish
Sanding sealer

Small fruit bowl

woodturning_with_kim — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:17:14 +0000

When I finished this small fruit bowl I first thought about the wood, is it a tight grain wood? Is it hard, soft? And then I made the decision of what finishing process I was going to use. In this case I decided to wet sand with walnut oil all the way from 180-1200 grit, I did this because I have had a positive experience from doing this on birch wood which was the wood of choice in this case. After I had wet sanded the bowl I let the oil really soak in and dry for a couple of days before applying the final finish. After a couple of days I applied a thick coat of reneissance wax to the bowl and then I used a piece of paper to spread it out evenly. I then set the lathe to a speed of about 2000 rpm and buffed the wax with a paper towel, this left a really nice glossy finish. After I had applied the coat of wax I let the bowl dry for a couple of hours before I came back and buffed the bowl with some cardboard which gave the bowl a really nice satin finish.

Products Used

Renaissance wax
Sandpaper, 180-1200 grit
Walnut oil
Paper to buff out the wax

Red Mallee natural edge bowl

Todd Halleman — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:04:38 +0000

When I think of turning a Burl cap, I think of two different ways. The one in my other enter (winged) or the one in this entry (even walled). They both are completely different, and how the Burl is sharped is how I decide what one to do. In this one, the Burl was really oddly shaped, so I did thin walled. That way you can see the shape of the burl and it gives it a "woah! That was turned on a lathe?" effect.

Red mallee is extremely hard wood. I am used to big leaf maple. Red Mallee is 3.5 times harder than big leaf maple. That led to a lot of time over at the grinder. But when you get a clean cut and sand it nicely, man! That wood pops.

I sanded it starting wet sanding with 120 grit used Howard's feed N wax and sanded up to 1200. Once I used the 1200 grit, the burl seemed to have a 3D appearance to it. The wood is incredible, and I can't wait to turn more.

Products Used

Howard's feed N wax
Red Mallee Burl cap

Buckeye Burl Winged Bowl.

Todd Halleman — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:21:15 +0000

Here is a Buckeye Burl bowl that I turned a few months back. When I got the Burl cap, I saw that the wood was almost all blue. I knew I wanted to try my hardest to save as much wood as possible, so I made it winged. I love Winged Burl bowls because they are all never the same. Nature decides the shape while I help bring it out.

I wet sanded it up to 600 grit using Howard's feed N wax. I use it as that is relatively cheap and I can purchase it locally.

Products Used

Buckeye Burl Cap
Howard's feed N wax

General Finishes - Youth & Student Wood Turner (25 Years Or Under)

Curly Maple Calabash Bowl

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Beech Wood Trio Set

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Winning Category

2nd Place

Flamed Figured Maple Salad Bowl

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Mean Green

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Black Pearl

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Small fruit bowl

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Red Mallee natural edge bowl

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Buckeye Burl Winged Bowl.

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Winning Category

1st Place