That just shows what's hidden in a piece of fire wood. Not all logs are ugly and this one proves my point. You certainly found some hidden treasure with this piece. Thank you for all your video's and your instructions. Take care and happy turning. Regards from DK. David.
Nice looking bowl Erik. Some times turning is like opening a package, don't know what you have until it's open. This shows pine cane look as good as Oak. Thanks for sharing, Fred
That's a very nice looking pine bowl. I can never get pine to look or work that good up here in Canada. I seem to always have tear out whenever I use pine in my projects. It must be my technique !? I especially like the still pics you post at the end of the video. Thanks for posting the turning.
Jean-Marc Labonte Sorry to sound abrupt but I was just saying that with soft wood it is very important to slice with very sharp tools or you get tear out due to the soft cellulose matter that it is connected to.
Howdy Erik, No Worries. It was the correct response after all :-) I was not offended at all. I do have to spend more time sharpening my tools. I just recently built a sharpening jig and I need to give them all a touch up. Thanks and Take Care. I look forward to your postings and advice as always. Jean-Marc
James Templeton Thanks James, my mom is doing much better, she has had 4 strokes but has made an amazing recovery considering all that her brain has been through.
Gorgeous little pot there Erik, sure don't look like any of the pine out of my wood pile. Really a fine looking wood, seems like those Fabulous Firewood Finds has struck again and that kind is wonderful as there was no expectation of great beauty from a log formerly destined for the hearth. Nice Job.
Beautiful looking bowl and great instructions Erik. That finish is a killer Simply AWESOOME. I have turned a couple of Norfolk Island Pine vases and it's a wood that spalts really beautifull and from my understanding it a wood that does not check or split. Take care Albert
Al Furtado Thanks Albert, and thank you for the info on the Norfolk Pine. This piece is very stable and extra dense even though it has large growth rings. Thanks you for watching and I really enjoy your videos.
Eric, what a lovely bowl it does look a little like Ponderosa pine I turn a lot of Norfolk Pine and it is usually a bit darker in its structure. I would love to know what your recipe is for your friction polish, Thanks for this presentation. Keep Well Stephen
I was rewatching some of your old videos when I saw this again. A little tivia for you. If you are a hundred or older and die on Norfolk Island, they will plant one hundred Norfolk island pines in your memory.
Nice Piece of sidebar trivia and I have planted nearly 50,000 trees in my day as a young treeplanter under my father, and it was not enough but everyone should plant trees. Les I appreciate you my friend!
Beautiful piece Eric. Thank you for taking the time to show us. I have a question. Can you detail a video about you mortise. The size. What is recommended. What you feel comfortable with. What we should look out for. You stated that this one was rather small. Were you worried because the mortise was small or because the wood was pine, or both?
+Hank Rawlings I usually like to do a 1/4" mortice with plenty of meat around it and on this one I went shallower and had less meat outside of the mortise as well as it being pine. Usually I like to have over 1.5 inches outside of the mortise. Hopefully this helps. If you watch some of my other earlier bowl videos you will see me making the mortise and describe it a bit more. If I get a chance I will do a video about this coming up soon. I am really busy with work and chores that need to be done but when I get back to videos I will make try to incorporate this request into a video. I have over 200 videos and please check some more out, I think my walnut plates video has some info on the mortise.
Thanks Jack, There are Cellulose sanding sealers and spirits as well. Here is a link and you can search the term cellulose sanding sealers. www.google.com/search?q=cellulose+spirit&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS777US777&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=Z5P4aoHXb_Vw2M%253A%252CcBXp78DweR0hFM%252C_&usg=__JXVB3XyRJPd206TjvRvKQSZMUco%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj25Niq7-_aAhXR5J8KHRQZBdIQ9QEIPDAF#imgrc=Z5P4aoHXb_Vw2M:
Great video Erik. I'm not a turner myself (yet), but I've been following your channel for quite some time now and I hope to get a lathe and get turning soon. A question for you completely unrelated to wood turning though. What camera/lens combo are you using to record your videos? Your video quality is awesome compared to a lot of other related videos I've been watching. Photography has been my main hobby for years now and I'm looking to try my hand at videography...always looking for pointers to get me in the right direction.
Jay Yaj Thanks Jay, I use a cheap Panisonic Lumix DMC-ZS25 from Costco for under 200 dollars and it shoots very well although I want to get the Canon D70
I wet sanded using howards butcher block conditioner and then applied a friction rub finish over the top of that and thanks for commenting and watching my video Ray!
I wonder if I might ask you a turning speed question. It looks like you were roughing that out at 3000 rpm. As a general question, so long as the lathe isn't vibrating from speed thats too high, is there any harm in going as fast as possible? I'm sure the answer is going to start with "It depends" but watching your video makes me think I could be turning at much higher speeds than I am, I just want to make sure I'm not doing something unsafe. thanks!
David Blehar Generally speaking the rule of thumb is diameter of work x speed should equal less than 6800. For example a 10 inch bowl safe speed would be 680 rpm. However having said that rules at times can and must be broken if the piece feels safe on the chuck. When turning items that are square of rectangular where you are cutting air the speed should be increased so you are cutting air for shorter intervals. Always be safe and wear a safety sheild because you never know when something crazy could happen.
Robert Kutz You can use walnut, coconut, linseed, food grade mineral oil, or howards, butcher block conditioner. Any oil that won't go rancid. Thanks for watching.
+Michael Hunter Most of the time I dont just because it is one more step and I do a lot of one of a kind things. If I was doing production work would drill a hole and hav it set up with a depth stop..
Hi Erik !! Thanks for the video.I have never turned a pine bowl.Would you say it is easy or quite tricky due to it being a softwood ? Take care. Chris.
Christopher Fisher Chris, Happy Father's day and thanks for the question. I have found that most pine I have turned is very easy to turn and this piece was no exception. Quick easy removal with very little tear out. This piece has a section with high dry pitch content and that was nice as well, smelled great. Thanks again and Peace!
james nix I mix shellac and denatured alcohol for sealer and I use howards butcherblock conditioner watch more and you will see some of it in my videos
Thank you Victor. That is the 1.5" x 3/8" heavy duty Robert Sorby scraper. the key is keeping it sharp it dulls fast, newer Sorby tools tend to dull fast it seems to me.
how do you mix your friction polish.. I mix one third of each boiled linseed oil,shellac,and denatured alcohol...I can't seem to get the finish that you do.....
That is the mixture I use too and sometimes I just mix it righjt on a rag. the key is sanding sealer several coats and wet sanding watch my Australian Red Cedar Bowl video.
Your voice is very similar to, Lee Marvin. Very nice to listen to. Liked the Vid too. The grain on this wood is similar too Sapele to look at, but probably a lot tougher.
My videos stutter a little bit when I'm watching in 1080p, so I only watch in 720p. Unless it is 720p60. then I have to resort to 480p. Lame. I have 5 gigs of ram and 3.4ghz processor. The problem is that I only have the onboard graphics chipset. I need to get a medium or even low grade video card and it will make a huge difference. Having only 256mb of video ram isn't enough for anything except n64 roms and below on the demand side.
That just shows what's hidden in a piece of fire wood. Not all logs are ugly and this one proves my point. You certainly found some hidden treasure with this piece.
Thank you for all your video's and your instructions. Take care and happy turning.
Regards from DK. David.
Nice looking bowl Erik. Some times turning is like opening a package, don't know what you have until it's open. This shows pine cane look as good as Oak. Thanks for sharing, Fred
Great piece Erik, you made that pine look really beautiful.
Take care
Mike
Mike Waldt Thanks Mike it was a joy to turn
That turned out really nice Erik, just shows how under rated pine is for turning. Great descriptions of your techniques too 👍
Thank you Tom, certain pieces of pine can be really beautiful!
Very very nice I think the pine turned out prettier than if had been oak I Love pine it has great character to me
Thanks Eric for sharing
Thank you Jerry!
That's a very nice looking pine bowl. I can never get pine to look or work that good up here in Canada. I seem to always have tear out whenever I use pine in my projects. It must be my technique !? I especially like the still pics you post at the end of the video. Thanks for posting the turning.
Jean-Marc Labonte Thanks Jean-Marc. Sharp extra sharp tools when cutting soft wood.
Thanks Erik. Great Advice, I will try to keep my tools sharper.
Jean-Marc Labonte Sorry to sound abrupt but I was just saying that with soft wood it is very important to slice with very sharp tools or you get tear out due to the soft cellulose matter that it is connected to.
Howdy Erik, No Worries. It was the correct response after all :-) I was not offended at all. I do have to spend more time sharpening my tools. I just recently built a sharpening jig and I need to give them all a touch up. Thanks and Take Care. I look forward to your postings and advice as always. Jean-Marc
thank you for the reply. yes, I understand, life gets in the way sometimes of all of our desires. keep up the good work.
That came out really nice, thanks for sharing. Hope the family is doing ok especially your mom.
James Templeton Thanks James, my mom is doing much better, she has had 4 strokes but has made an amazing recovery considering all that her brain has been through.
Decorative bowl, Erik.
The bowl looks great and has a beautiful grain / coloring.
Günter Schöne Thank you Gunter!
Beautiful little bowl. Pine seems to turn very easily and relatively quickly.
+Jeffrey Oosterman Thank You!!! If you have sharp tools pine is great if they are dull it tears out. Hope you enjoy my videos.
Wow I didn't think pine would turn out that beautiful
+Maryke Dykhuizen Thank you, I have been amazed by some pine and it's beauty.
Very nice looking bowl Erik. Thank you for the video show. Ohio
+Jack Maravola Thank you Jack you are really watching a bunch of my videos, thank you! I hope you find them inspirational!
My son just gave me some pine (firewood) I am going to give it a try, thanks for the video, beautiful bowl, as always.
thank you and i hope it goes well , remember to wear a face shield.
Gorgeous little pot there Erik, sure don't look like any of the pine out of my wood pile.
Really a fine looking wood, seems like those Fabulous Firewood Finds has struck again and that kind is wonderful as there was no expectation of great beauty from a log formerly destined for the hearth. Nice Job.
John Bare Thanks John and I always feel lucky when a bowl comes off the lathe looking so nice. Thanks again!
Love the video Eric. Very beautiful results.
Thanks Don
That is a beauty! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jeff
Beautiful looking bowl and great instructions Erik. That finish is a killer Simply AWESOOME. I have turned a couple of Norfolk Island Pine vases and it's a wood that spalts really beautifull and from my understanding it a wood that does not check or split.
Take care
Albert
Al Furtado Thanks Albert, and thank you for the info on the Norfolk Pine. This piece is very stable and extra dense even though it has large growth rings. Thanks you for watching and I really enjoy your videos.
Your welcome and thanks as well. If you turn a piece lengthwise you get a nice spiral effect with dots tough out the piece that is very interesting
Nice turning love the shape and grain.
Charles Reicks Thank you Charles!
That’s very nice, the shape is very similar to some of the classic forms made in ceramic. Great job.
Thank you Phil many shapes I make are inspired by old pottery
Truly beautiful, Erik!
Thank you Gwilym
Such a gorgeous bowl!
Thanks pine can be beautiful too
Great piece Erik, beautiful finish, take care my friend, Best wishes, Harry
The Little Garden Shed Workshop Thanks Harry I really appreciate your comments and it is always a joy to see that you watched and commented.
Sweet delicate piece... thanks...
Thank you
That's unusual looking pine. It reminded me of cork earlier on.
CONGRATULATION MY FRIEND. I`M HAPPY, IN YOUR WORK. FROM BRAZIL.
+SEVERINO SILVA Thank you Serverino
Eric, what a lovely bowl it does look a little like Ponderosa pine I turn a lot of Norfolk Pine and it is usually a bit darker in its structure. I would love to know what your recipe is for your friction polish, Thanks for this presentation.
Keep Well Stephen
Thanks I just use the captn. eddie shine juice and then modify it per wood!
Good morning Erik ! Thank you for your reply will keep on looking for your videos ! Have a good day ! 👍
Thanks again! I have nearly 300 videos on my channel and all are original content that I made.
Muy linda pieza Erik !!!!! Excelente terminación !!!!!!
Thanks Jose
I was rewatching some of your old videos when I saw this again. A little tivia for you. If you are a hundred or older and die on Norfolk Island, they will plant one hundred Norfolk island pines in your memory.
Nice Piece of sidebar trivia and I have planted nearly 50,000 trees in my day as a young treeplanter under my father, and it was not enough but everyone should plant trees. Les I appreciate you my friend!
Beautiful bowl!
thanks billy
Hi Erik; thanks for sharing. I appreciate all the finishing info. I'm not there yet... but it is my goal. Marc
muziqjazz Thank you Marc! You are there because there is where you are.
very nice work there.
thanks
That turned out really pretty. Much better than firewood.
Slowvannah Farms Thank you , glad you liked it. It feels so good in the hands.
Okay,will do and thank you for getting back to me
Great work, I like it.
Take care. Hubert - Germany
hubert Ko Thanks Hubert, It was a quick and fun little bowl.
Very nice. Would you have a description on how you made your circle turning jig for your bandsaw?
I think you will be able to use this link to get to my circle cutting jig video. ua-cam.com/video/MDwxVbaADtA/v-deo.html
Thanks for the video.I have never turned a pine bowl. It is bautifur piece.
Thaks William
Beautiful piece Eric. Thank you for taking the time to show us. I have a question. Can you detail a video about you mortise. The size. What is recommended. What you feel comfortable with. What we should look out for. You stated that this one was rather small. Were you worried because the mortise was small or because the wood was pine, or both?
+Hank Rawlings I usually like to do a 1/4" mortice with plenty of meat around it and on this one I went shallower and had less meat outside of the mortise as well as it being pine. Usually I like to have over 1.5 inches outside of the mortise. Hopefully this helps. If you watch some of my other earlier bowl videos you will see me making the mortise and describe it a bit more. If I get a chance I will do a video about this coming up soon. I am really busy with work and chores that need to be done but when I get back to videos I will make try to incorporate this request into a video. I have over 200 videos and please check some more out, I think my walnut plates video has some info on the mortise.
You have the nicest finishes ever!!!!! Does the alcohol have to be denatured ? If so where do buy it? Love your videos THX!👍👍
Thanks Jack, There are Cellulose sanding sealers and spirits as well. Here is a link and you can search the term cellulose sanding sealers. www.google.com/search?q=cellulose+spirit&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS777US777&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=Z5P4aoHXb_Vw2M%253A%252CcBXp78DweR0hFM%252C_&usg=__JXVB3XyRJPd206TjvRvKQSZMUco%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj25Niq7-_aAhXR5J8KHRQZBdIQ9QEIPDAF#imgrc=Z5P4aoHXb_Vw2M:
Great video Erik. I'm not a turner myself (yet), but I've been following your channel for quite some time now and I hope to get a lathe and get turning soon.
A question for you completely unrelated to wood turning though. What camera/lens combo are you using to record your videos? Your video quality is awesome compared to a lot of other related videos I've been watching. Photography has been my main hobby for years now and I'm looking to try my hand at videography...always looking for pointers to get me in the right direction.
Jay Yaj Thanks Jay, I use a cheap Panisonic Lumix DMC-ZS25 from Costco for under 200 dollars and it shoots very well although I want to get the Canon D70
Beautiful finish. You wet sanded after applying sanding sealer with I believe wax and oil. Could you elaborate on that please?
I wet sanded using howards butcher block conditioner and then applied a friction rub finish over the top of that and thanks for commenting and watching my video Ray!
Nice job Erik, your finish turned out nice. What are you using for the wet sand.
Mark
MARK Baid I use howard's butcherblock conditioner, coconut oil, Walnut oil or hemp oil. Thanks Mark
Skvělá práce já rád koukám na vaše videa.
+ Brykl1 Thanks!
Beautiful!
Thank you Heidrun
I wonder if I might ask you a turning speed question. It looks like you were roughing that out at 3000 rpm. As a general question, so long as the lathe isn't vibrating from speed thats too high, is there any harm in going as fast as possible? I'm sure the answer is going to start with "It depends" but watching your video makes me think I could be turning at much higher speeds than I am, I just want to make sure I'm not doing something unsafe. thanks!
David Blehar Generally speaking the rule of thumb is diameter of work x speed should equal less than 6800. For example a 10 inch bowl safe speed would be 680 rpm. However having said that rules at times can and must be broken if the piece feels safe on the chuck. When turning items that are square of rectangular where you are cutting air the speed should be increased so you are cutting air for shorter intervals. Always be safe and wear a safety sheild because you never know when something crazy could happen.
What a beautiful bowl nothing wrong with pine at all
Thanks
simple mais très jolie cette petite piéce erik merci pour cette vidéo .
Thank you Jimmi
erik very nice turning what oil do use when sanding. thank you bob
Robert Kutz You can use walnut, coconut, linseed, food grade mineral oil, or howards, butcher block conditioner. Any oil that won't go rancid. Thanks for watching.
Noticed you don't drill a depth/starter hole as most others do. (For hollowing) What is the reasoning? Not necessary? Thanks for sharing your skills.
+Michael Hunter Most of the time I dont just because it is one more step and I do a lot of one of a kind things. If I was doing production work would drill a hole and hav it set up with a depth stop..
Avery nice job.
Nice piece of firewood Eric!
Alex Pettigrew Thanks Alex
Hi Erik !!
Thanks for the video.I have never turned a pine bowl.Would you say it is easy or quite tricky due to it being a softwood ?
Take care.
Chris.
Christopher Fisher Chris, Happy Father's day and thanks for the question. I have found that most pine I have turned is very easy to turn and this piece was no exception. Quick easy removal with very little tear out. This piece has a section with high dry pitch content and that was nice as well, smelled great. Thanks again and Peace!
Erik Anderson Thanks my friend.....Much appreciated........Rock on mate !!
Chris.
Estou tendo uma aula grátis aqui no Brasil, Rio de Janeiro .Obrigado amigo ERIK...
Thanks Juarez, I would love to visit Brazil some day!
Obrigado,saúde pra voce e toda familia.
And to you and yours as well Juarez!
What a beauty!!!!
George Welman Thanks George!
Eric
What brands of sanding sealer and wax do you use, if I may ask I love the look you get.
james nix I mix shellac and denatured alcohol for sealer and I use howards butcherblock conditioner watch more and you will see some of it in my videos
Hi Erik ! Could you please give me size of the scraper that you used for finishing the inside of the pine bowl that was suppose to be Hoak ?
Thank you Victor. That is the 1.5" x 3/8" heavy duty Robert Sorby scraper. the key is keeping it sharp it dulls fast, newer Sorby tools tend to dull fast it seems to me.
how do you mix your friction polish.. I mix one third of each boiled linseed oil,shellac,and denatured alcohol...I can't seem to get the finish that you do.....
That is the mixture I use too and sometimes I just mix it righjt on a rag. the key is sanding sealer several coats and wet sanding watch my Australian Red Cedar Bowl video.
I watched the Australian red cedar video..very helpful..thank you...
Glad that it helped you! Peace!
👍
Your voice is very similar to, Lee Marvin.
Very nice to listen to.
Liked the Vid too.
The grain on this wood is similar too Sapele to look at, but probably a lot tougher.
Thank you
Erik Anderson
That was fast, I'm still watching the vid.
Where are you based?
I am a passenger in a car stuck in terrible traffic so I have time to respond
+Erik Anderson
Thanks again.
Which state?
I'm trying to determine where your accent originates.
I'm English, living in France.
+niklar55 California
/Question :. What type of finish should I use on big salad bowls?
Walnut oil is the best or a howards butcher block conditioner
What do you do with all of these turned items?
+Frank B Thanks for the question, I gift, sell, use myself, place in galleries, and collect for this year's Christmas.
Very cool, thanks for the info. love your work, makes me wish i had my lathe still.
Very nice.
Keith Corodimas Thanks Keith
It has a beautiful shape.
Keith Corodimas It feels really nice to the touch as well.
VERY NICE!!!
+Jerry Puckett Thank you Jerry!
Wow, you're very talented and artistic. Gives us less talented types like me something to shoot for. Thanks
+Tom LaRocque Thanks Tom!
Nice
timothy mcswain Thank you Timothy!
what is the oil used for wet turning
Pierre Nadeau All kinds of oils can be used, walnut, coconut, hemp, food grade mineral oil, linseed oil, your choice. Thanks for watching Pierre.
thanks video
+Nhat Lam Thanks for watching
My videos stutter a little bit when I'm watching in 1080p, so I only watch in 720p. Unless it is 720p60. then I have to resort to 480p. Lame. I have 5 gigs of ram and 3.4ghz processor. The problem is that I only have the onboard graphics chipset. I need to get a medium or even low grade video card and it will make a huge difference. Having only 256mb of video ram isn't enough for anything except n64 roms and below on the demand side.
+ZMBY Minds (ZMBYMinds) Thanks for watching even with the slow server and hardware. I know how that is.
Please take that ring off when you turn! You do great work. One slip and.......
Thank you Rick!
Nu
Nice
Roderick Levins Thanks Roderick