Wood Porn

[McBryde]

I found some oak today while I was out cutting that will be some beautiful blanks one of these days. Haven't seen oak this pretty in a looooooooong time. I ended up coming home with some elm, some cedar, and quite a bit of that oak.

Hope you like,

Emerson

 

[Woodlvr]

That is some beautiful wood. Nice find.

 

[TellicoTurning]

That looks almost like a nice oak burl... some don't like doing oak, but I think it can be very pretty... I'll turn as much as I can get my hands on... it's tough wood, but a finished piece is usually gorgeous... looking forward to seeing what you do with it... don't cut it all for pens, make a pepper mill or bowl too....

Here is a pepper mill I recently did from an oak burl...

The second picture is a red oak bowl I turned from a tree that fell across the road near me and the farmer that was cutting it was just throwing the wood in the ditch... wish now I had gotten more of it, but we were on our way to town and I didn't want to haul a full load of wood to town and back...

 

[McBryde]

Those are some good looking turnings. I turned some of it into bowl blanks, and some into bottle stopper blanks, and some pen blanks that I would dare to say would rival any pen blank on the internet at this time. They are absolutely GORGEOUS! What are the blank sizes for pepper mills?

E

 

[bitshird]

Pepper Mills work good on 2-1/2 square and close to 12 inches up to 20 depending on what you want for a finished length, I've hear that 6 inch finished mills sell well,

 

[TellicoTurning]

Pepper Mills work good on 2-1/2 square and close to 12 inches up to 20 depending on what you want for a finished length, I've hear that 6 inch finished mills sell well,

The 2 1/2 size works, but my preference is to start with a 3x3 x whatever length you can get... I like to start with the 12 inch size, but have started with all different sizes... and Ken is right... I do well with the 6 inch mills, although don't do a lot that sized... I usually do 8 to 10 inch sizes and I only use the crush/grind mechanisms.... they are more forgiving on length than the standards with the knurl adjustment on the top of the mill... (I tend to be a little measurementally (or is that mentally) challenged)... CSUSA and Packardwood has about the best pricing on the c/g mechanisms if you buy 10 or more at a time... the regular sizes are with a 10 inch shaft that you can cut to whatever length you need....and CSUSA has just recently come out with an 18" shaft for making the bigger mills. I have two in my inventory now that are almost 14" high...