I got this Gall up in Walnut Grove, Arizona about a year ago. About a month ago I decided to give it a chance to survive on my lathe, rather than being firewood. It worked out really good on the outside, but when I got to hollowing it, boy, it got tough. I had to use my steady, and then I was still having doubts as to whether it was going to survive. It was the absolute hardest wood I have ever turned. Worse than Desert Ironwood. Anyway, take a look.
This is what I brought home from W. G. It laid around for months before I started on it.
I was looking for the center of it in this picture after I cut the waste off it, which might become a bottle stopper in the future. The only way to get accuracy in measuring it was to set that piece of plywood up against the tailstock to get the diameter, 4 1/2". It worked out so next was mounting it toget the most out of the blank.
It's mounted, and ready for the abuse I'm about to subject it to.
I didn't think about taking pictures while in work except this next picture. I had put about 10 coats of CA with sanding each coat. I used medium CA on all the coats, and had very good results, so on the 11th coat, I decided to use thick CA. Boy, that was a disaster as this piece ended up with ribs about a 32nd thick that I couldn't get sanded out even with 180 grit, so decided to use my skew. I don't need to say anything more about that as the picture speaks volumes.
I had to get my bowl gouge and turn it down past the cut without losing the shape. No pictures again, but here is the finished piece. It's 4"od x 5 9/16" tall. In total of filling, there were a lot of small holes that filled very easily, and then about 4-5 others that actually need filler which was the shavings , plus very little fake turquoise. One spot in this picture is about 5 o'clock 2" above the foot.
This picture shows a filled spot just above the 9 o'clock area. The shavings are just a little darker than what the picture shows, but still looks good.
This doesn't show any of the larger spots needing filling, but there were a bunch of tiny holes I filled.
Here is the mouth showing a lot of the turquoise filler. There were a lot of bug tracks there and only at that location.
I couldn't get pictures of the bottom, but it started out having a short finial, but broke off so I just put a nipple on it. All in all, this is probably the prettiest piece of wood I've found up in Walnut Grove and certainly will not be the last.
For some reason, I just can't get my camera to come in with good crispy pictures like the ones of that New York guy and DLJeffs. My camera is pretty good, or was when I first got it about 8 years ago. The other camera I use does the same even on auto focus, but I'm thinking it's my eyes instead. ............ Jerry (in Tucson)
This is what I brought home from W. G. It laid around for months before I started on it.
I was looking for the center of it in this picture after I cut the waste off it, which might become a bottle stopper in the future. The only way to get accuracy in measuring it was to set that piece of plywood up against the tailstock to get the diameter, 4 1/2". It worked out so next was mounting it toget the most out of the blank.
It's mounted, and ready for the abuse I'm about to subject it to.
I didn't think about taking pictures while in work except this next picture. I had put about 10 coats of CA with sanding each coat. I used medium CA on all the coats, and had very good results, so on the 11th coat, I decided to use thick CA. Boy, that was a disaster as this piece ended up with ribs about a 32nd thick that I couldn't get sanded out even with 180 grit, so decided to use my skew. I don't need to say anything more about that as the picture speaks volumes.
I had to get my bowl gouge and turn it down past the cut without losing the shape. No pictures again, but here is the finished piece. It's 4"od x 5 9/16" tall. In total of filling, there were a lot of small holes that filled very easily, and then about 4-5 others that actually need filler which was the shavings , plus very little fake turquoise. One spot in this picture is about 5 o'clock 2" above the foot.
This picture shows a filled spot just above the 9 o'clock area. The shavings are just a little darker than what the picture shows, but still looks good.
This doesn't show any of the larger spots needing filling, but there were a bunch of tiny holes I filled.
Here is the mouth showing a lot of the turquoise filler. There were a lot of bug tracks there and only at that location.
I couldn't get pictures of the bottom, but it started out having a short finial, but broke off so I just put a nipple on it. All in all, this is probably the prettiest piece of wood I've found up in Walnut Grove and certainly will not be the last.
For some reason, I just can't get my camera to come in with good crispy pictures like the ones of that New York guy and DLJeffs. My camera is pretty good, or was when I first got it about 8 years ago. The other camera I use does the same even on auto focus, but I'm thinking it's my eyes instead. ............ Jerry (in Tucson)
have keep me eyes out for some of those!
........... Jerry (in Tucson)