W.Y.
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This is going to be a work in progress.
A local cabinet shop was making a set of Hickory kitchen cabinets . I had never worked with Hickory and knowing it was very hard and used for axe handles and such I wanted o give it a try so I asked for some of his scraps and he gave me these pieces he couldn't use yesterday . Many of the strips were less than a inch wide by 3/4" thick .
I sawed them into pieces that I figured would give me the least waste and jointed them and glued them up into bowl blanks to turn on my Ringmaster lathe.
Here is what they looked like when I brought them home . Took the picture in bright sunlight and it even showed my shadow while doing so . . . lol , , ,
They are all completely Hickory except the large one where I added some walnut strips.
Here is what they looked like after I glued the strips into flat square boards and then cut them round and drilled a half inch hole in them all ready to mount on the RM and cut out the rings. Out of those scraps I got six bowl blanks measuring two at 8" diameter and one 10" , one 7" , one 9" and one 5" . I actually cut the rings for the 5" one and they are shown dry stacked .
Got all the rings cut out of three blanks already and glued up and in the ring press. Will follow up with a few more pictures as I progress.
The guy that gave me the scraps will be getting one of these bowls when finished.
A local cabinet shop was making a set of Hickory kitchen cabinets . I had never worked with Hickory and knowing it was very hard and used for axe handles and such I wanted o give it a try so I asked for some of his scraps and he gave me these pieces he couldn't use yesterday . Many of the strips were less than a inch wide by 3/4" thick .
I sawed them into pieces that I figured would give me the least waste and jointed them and glued them up into bowl blanks to turn on my Ringmaster lathe.
Here is what they looked like when I brought them home . Took the picture in bright sunlight and it even showed my shadow while doing so . . . lol , , ,
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They are all completely Hickory except the large one where I added some walnut strips.
Here is what they looked like after I glued the strips into flat square boards and then cut them round and drilled a half inch hole in them all ready to mount on the RM and cut out the rings. Out of those scraps I got six bowl blanks measuring two at 8" diameter and one 10" , one 7" , one 9" and one 5" . I actually cut the rings for the 5" one and they are shown dry stacked .
![](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi6.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy231%2FWillysWoodcrafting%2FTutorials%2FHickory2.jpg&hash=a7dea92a9239744d200c4c877fb2ba8a)
Got all the rings cut out of three blanks already and glued up and in the ring press. Will follow up with a few more pictures as I progress.
The guy that gave me the scraps will be getting one of these bowls when finished.
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