Woodturning | The Wormiest Firewood!

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Hello, friends! This is officially the first project I’ve completed in our new house/shop. It’s taken a while to get the shop back up to working condition, but we’re finally done! It’s been a long wait, but I am finally back to doing some wood turning! I also apologize for anyone who’s left a comment in the past couple months that I haven’t responded to yet. I’ve made it a point to reply to as many comments as I possibly can, and up until now, I’ve done a pretty good job of it, but the past couple months have been quite hectic! I promise, I will get to them soon!

This was a piece of a firewood I picked up from my parents’ house a few months back. The outside looked stunning, and I immediately thought it would possibly make for a really nice live-edge bowl, so that’s precisely what I tried with this project. I hadn’t actually attempted a live-edge bowl before this project, and to be honest, it was actually much more difficult than I thought it would be after seeing so many people do them here on youtube. I was not fully prepared for how rough a process it was going to be on the turning tool, simply because parts of the bowl never end up getting fully round. That said, I am quite pleased with the final bowl. Although the worminess remained mostly on the surface, there are a lot of cool details and patterns throughout the piece. I can’t be sure, but I think the wood might be ash? It does kind of look like ash, and it’s decently dense as well. Either way, I sanded the bowl up to 400 grit and gave it a wax finish with Hampshire Sheen, which was also a first time use. It was quite easy to apply, but I gotta say, I do miss that waterlox shine!!

What do you all think? I’d love to hear down below!

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Key equipment/products I used:

Rikon 70-220 VSR Midi Lathe: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/power-tools/lathes/101468-rikon-70-220vsr-midi-lathe?item=03J7320
Woodstock 1/2 inch bowl gouge: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005W139CS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1