{"id":405,"date":"2025-11-23T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/?p=405"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:02:32","slug":"woodturning-the-wormiest-firewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Woodturning | The Wormiest Firewood!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woodturning | The Wormiest Firewood!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nNL_hOeQ7iQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>This bowl will soon be available on our website for purchase, and until it is, check out more of our products here! https:\/\/formanwoodworking.com\/<br \/>\n_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Hello, friends! This is officially the first project I&#8217;ve completed in our new house\/shop. It&#8217;s taken a while to get the shop back up to working condition, but we&#8217;re finally done! It&#8217;s been a long wait, but I am finally back to doing some wood turning! I also apologize for anyone who&#8217;s left a comment in the past couple months that I haven&#8217;t responded to yet. I&#8217;ve made it a point to reply to as many comments as I possibly can, and up until now, I&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>This was a piece of a firewood I picked up from my parents&#8217; 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&#8217;s precisely what I tried with this project. I hadn&#8217;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&#8217;t be sure, but I think the wood might be ash? It does kind of look like ash, and it&#8217;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!!<\/p>\n<p>What do you all think? I&#8217;d love to hear down below!<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________ <\/p>\n<p>Check out our Instagram! https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/formanwoodworking\/?hl=en <\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________ <\/p>\n<p>Key equipment\/products I used: <\/p>\n<p>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<br \/>\nWoodstock 1\/2 inch bowl gouge: https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B005W139CS\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bowl will soon be available on our website for purchase, and until it is,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodturning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworking.monster\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}