Woodturning this incredible black locust burl log into a cool looking vase with glass insert. This wood was saved from the firewood as the tree was cut down due to some rot started to develop. Love the contrast where one side we have loads of burls / burrs and the other just a natural grain of the tree with stunning colours especially after some mineral oil was applied to pop the grain.
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Hey, I'm back with another firewood project and here I'm marking out how this project will look
like and this is the perfect example. Life doesn't always go in our favor and this plan
will completely change. Well, not completely but definitely will have a different shape.
Using my trusted five minutes two parts epoxy resin to secure the piece onto my waste block.
You don't need too much weight on it, you don't want to squeeze out the resin and
weaken the bonds. So I only use my chuck which is probably quite heavy as well
and waited 24 hours to allow the resin to cure before it could go on back on the lathe
and start shaping. Running the lathe on the slowest speed around 500 rpm and using my
initial shape before I can move on to some some lighter tools to kind of get the final shape.
So I picked up this black locust logs a couple of months ago actually last year at some points
and so I had some time to dry. It didn't develop any crack, this was one of the smaller
cut of piece from a bigger log and I sealed it with some PVA glue and then let it dry
over the winter going into summer and still didn't develop any crack and now I thought it was the
right time to get this in the lathe and let's see what we can turn out of this piece. The reason
the tree was cut down it started to rot from from the bottom and it was right next to a main road
so it wasn't safe to to leave the tree there so the arborist cut down the tree and it was going
to go into firewood but then I was able to pick up a few logs from from the tree and I'm rather
pleased. I always like projects where I can I can give a different meaning and new meaning to a
piece of wood and and luckily this turned out definitely a good save. This is one of my new
carbide tool as you can see has a very small cutting tip but don't be fooled by this little
fella, it actually cuts extremely well, it's super sharp and considering it's a very small
cutter in a world of carbides it removes a lot of materials at the same time, works extremely well
there was a big crack going along the log starting from the bottom and it was rather wide and deep
so here I'm trying to shape in a way the crack kind of hidden but as you can see there is still
a large part of the crack is still still visible. It probably is not even a crack because it looks
like there is a bigger chunk of wood missing there so probably when I cut the bigger log
into smaller pieces and then as I said this is one of the offcuts it could just
broke out the small piece which can be causing a little bit of a headache here but eventually I
was able to remove enough materials from the bottom and you will see when I'm parting this
waste off from the waste block I will leave a good inch or two centimeter extra meat on
the waste block just to ensure that I don't have that the void in my final piece.
On to some finishing touches with my negative rake scraper this really helps to remove
some of the tool marks and on to working on the insides so this bark slash burr on this side of
the the project was a slightly loose so I secured it with some some duct tape just to make sure
as I'm hollowing this piece it won't break off or it won't come apart completely so just a little
be on the safe side and due to having this loose bark slash burr on the outside this again I had to
change my initial plan and I gone with another glass insert so I will drill a 38 mil hole all
the way to the bottom and luckily the the project is tall enough to accommodate one of my glass tube
and you can see that is just the perfect size when all drilled out I used a little bit of tape
to kind of mark how deep I can go into and when I do the final measurements you will see at the
bottom we still have the perfect thickness to accommodate the glass tube I left about an
additional one and a half centimeter for the bottom there is a slightly slightly the the
crack or the the void is still visible but it won't be too too disturbing here I'm just marking
out where the bottom of the the vase will be so when I do the sanding I know how far I need to
go down to and then I'm on to a lot of hand sanding obviously because of the the extra
bark on the side while we still have a little bit of a live edge and the uneven surface of the
projects didn't really allow me to do sanding while the the lathe is also running so I'm on to
some nice hand sanding I took this from all the way from 120 grits up to 400 grits
light sanding at the bottom and we are ready to insert our branding and the all-time favorite
part let's pop the grain and this amazing burl all around the vase this is just simple mineral
oil but look how beautiful and even just the the other side of the vase it's just the grain
is popping by applying the oil I really like the contrast between one side
