Woodturning Olive Vase – Green to Dry to Finished
by Alan Stratton on Friday, March 26th, 2021 | 2 Comments
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The last time I visited Arizona, I brought back some trunks of olive and mesquite. This piece was a smaller section from an olive tree. Most of the piece was sapwood without the usual dramatic heartwood figure. Observing this and talking it over with the wood, we decided to turn a vase. The wood was still wet so we had to rough turn it and let it dry. While rough turning, a drill took care of the pith – the root of all evil cracks.
A year later, we decided it was dry enough to finish turning. It is finished with shellac friction polish and buffed to a nice sheen.
The vase is 3 inches in diameter and seven inches tall.
Enjoy!
Hi Alan, That is a beautiful Olive Vase!
I note that it does not have a lid? I also think I know how that happened. When you do your write up you use a format from your last write up and edit it to the new project. I have done the same, more times than I want to admit.
P.S. the magnets in the Segmented Vase was also really neat.
I enjoy watching your projects, thanks
Peter
My bad, exactly right.
Glad somebody actually reads the description and cares enough to let me know. 🙂
Alan