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gavin wrote:A lime tree has come down at the roadside. I can have it for bowls. I have never turned lime, and I know it's favoured by carvers. I don't see 'lime' in the index of Robin Wood's book The Wooden Bowl - so perhaps it is not suitable??
1) What experience have others in turning lime for:
a ) bowls
b) spindles
2) Because it was roadside-grown ( i.e. not growing in competition for light with other trees) it will likely have more knots branches, twigs, and side growths and so be harder to turn.
Question: Would you drive 30 minutes each way to fetch such a log?
Whilst I am tempted to 'have a go' and see for myself, others' knowledge could save me time. e.g. I would not ever bother with cherry, for it's bowls are prone to split.
Bertie wrote:Im delighted to hear it, even pictures to prove it - shows how much i know, or perhaps we have different standards?
Bertie wrote:Im delighted to hear it, even pictures to prove it - shows how much i know, or perhaps we have different standards?
Bertie wrote:I made quite a number of bowls in lime - the end grain was allways problematical
Bertie wrote:I dont wish to tread on any toes here, but tool marks, and so forth would not be acceptable in the galleries where i try to sell my bowls
gavin wrote:Bertie wrote:I dont wish to tread on any toes here, but tool marks, and so forth would not be acceptable in the galleries where i try to sell my bowls
Wouldn't it be fascinating to know if tool marks would be rejected or accepted by those galleries' customers! I wonder if we'll ever know? The presence of tool marks are a design decision by the maker, and can show you how the maker made the work, and how much energy was used. The acceptance of them is a value judgement by the customer, and an expression of how the customer sees quality. I don't think you tread on toes, I think these are similar themes to those in the qualitythread. If my energy use comment sounds like a swipe at those who use electricity to turn, I don't intend to swipe - I'll use a powered lathe myself.
Bertie wrote:I prefer the medim of skill as a judgement of a turner - not what he does with abrasives.
Mind you i shouldnt perhaps say this but bowls and turners is something im beginning to have little time for - simply because - "a good bowl will have no features or decoration - it will subscribe to the latest fashion dimentions so that we can judge if he or she is fit to be called one of us" what is it with power bowl turners that they are so frightened of decoration?
gavin wrote:Bertie wrote:suggest this board need pay that quote no further attention, nor enquire as to its source.
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