From Green Firewood to Vase – Deep Hollowing Wet Wood
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This black locust wood came from my brother in Idaho. It was freshly cut. I took it home and promptly rough turned it to a cylinder, then a rough shape for a vase, then parted it in two. Each end was hollowed before coating it with Bowl Saver, a green wood sealer from Craft Supplies USA.
After a couple of months, I weighed each piece and recorded the date and weight on the wood. When the last weight was equal or higher than the previous weight, I figure the wood is dry.
I remounted each piece truing the tenon, finished hollowing each piece before fitting the top back to the bottom and gluing it together.
After final shaping and sanding, I disguised the joint with a fine shallow groove. To disguise that groove, I added another nearby then another pair near the bottom of the vase.
This vase is about 6″ tall and 2.5″ diameter, finished with walnut oil.
Enjoy!
Love your videos showing lots of techniques. You used a rubber cushion on the tail stock, can you provide a bit more information about it. Rubber density, does it have a hole in it to accommodate the live center and what did you use or buy it.
Thanks
It’s a standard rubber stopper.
Please check my video “Live Center Options For Woodturning” for more details.
Enjoy
Alan
Nice coincidence; I had just finished two twig pots with copper tubes and epoxied wood plugs at the bottom to hold leafy green stems in water. They look exactly like your hollowed vases. Enjoy your videos very much on YouTube. Thank you, Ernie white
Great that you can put it to use.
Alan