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JD1137 said:
Found a piece of Pear with two, opposite branches.

Roughed out a natural edge bowl plus got a small core (not turned yet).
Kinda cool with feather figure on both sides of some darker heartwood. About 10” diameter x 4” tall.

I don’t thin the other half of the log will be quite as good. Will find out tomorrow maybe.
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Amazing. You got a good piece of heartwood there and those feathers are beautiful.
 
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Going to move things around in the shop today. Need to get my lathe further from the wall and a bit more sideways. Will go out as far as the cord allows. Might have to make a bit of extension cord if this doesn't work. Can't use my knock out tool unless I slide the head unit. (sick of doing that)
Will need to level and straighten the bed after that.
 
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Phil.H said:
Going to move things around in the shop today. Need to get my lathe further from the wall and a bit more sideways. Will go out as far as the cord allows. Might have to make a bit of extension cord if this doesn't work. Can't use my knock out tool unless I slide the head unit. (sick of doing that)
Will need to level and straighten the bed after that.
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What a royal pain!
 
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Not wood related, and not in the shop…but, finally addressing an issue with my Goldwing. Knew that I had a leaky fork seal, but my little ride late last summer scared me as the fork oil got onto the brake pads enough to make it a little difficult to stop. Finally getting them out and down to the shop. Not as easy to work on with this model compared to my classic wing.

Didn’t fully remember how to take everything apart and had to get the manual out. That’s okay, needed it out for torque values. And it felt good doing this. Been a very long time since I did some maintenance like this. Been lucky to have made friends, my Wing has rarely gone into the shop. Problem is, friends have drifted away including me and through Covid the former Wing organization has disbanded. Really miss that social organization. Always joked we were a bike gang. Only thing we terrorized were ice cream shops!!!

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@woodtickgreg Greg, sure wish I was close enough to help you with your Silverwing, really love spending shop time with someone.
 
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daniscool said:
Not sure either. If you could have cast and stabilized, then you wasted a lot of "interesting" wood. If not then it was probably necessary to maintain integrity.
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It's a small bowl, I could spend a few minutes in grinding away the areas that are questionable. I'm not interested in resin impregnated wood.
 
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Sanded on that mahogany / cholla project; did a little final shaping and started to put finish on it. Limited in what I can do until I get some other parts.
 
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DLJeffs said:
Well well, something very strange and confusing has happened. I was going to toss those aspen blanks that I stabilized in the dumpster. But I opened one up and the surface was dry, no free liquid. But it looked like maybe the resin had just soaked in or evaporated or something. On a whim, I wrapped them back up, put them back in the oven and turned it on to around 300F. In the time it took me to mow the lawn, the blanks seem to have cured!! The thinner knife scales and curly mango pen blanks were all hard, crytalline resin, just like they look when the process worked as it supposed to. The three larger pieces of aspen were getting there but weren't quite all crystalline yet. So I'll leave them in the oven a little longer and check them again this evening. According to TurnTex literature, if you take the uncured blanks out of the oven and let them cool, you're finished and blanks are ruined. But it really looks like these are curing like they should be.
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I'll sand them off later and if the surface isn't tacky I think they're good to go.

EDIT: Yup, sanded off the crystals on the outside and there's no tackniess, no stickness, and the blanks are super heavy. I think the stabilization worked after all. Glad I didn't toss out the leftover resin yet. I think it just needs to cook at a little higher temperature than I had the oven set.
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Doug - received those pieces of stabilized wood today. Looking forward to working with it (as my time allows!).
I will post it up when I get something done. Thanks! John
 
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Doug - received those pieces of stabilized wood today. Looking forward to working with it (as my time allows!).
I will post it up when I get something done. Thanks! John
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Glad they got there and hope you can find a good use for them. I'm interested to see what you think of the stabilization, since you've already turned raw aspen. I hope they finish better for you.
 
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Still not wood related but have the motorcycle almost reassembled. Ran out of ambition as the temps started dropping. Local shop did the fork seals for me (that pains me) but had them back in a day. Have those in and clamps torqued, replaced the brake pads (bummer, but I like stopping when needed), all the plumbing connected back up to the forks and ready for the wheel to go between the new pads and finish the reassembly. On this model of Honda Goldwing, it’s a little tricky getting axle and forks aligned properly or the tire will cup real badly and eventually drive you crazy feeling it in every corner.

Got to say this has been a nice distraction with good payback.

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