Loads of green wood to prepare

I’ve collected quite a lot of timber over the past few weeks and this all needs to be processed, ready for drying. It’s taken me a good couple of days to cut it into blanks, but I’m now ready to start rough turning – the fun part!

Below, are some photo’s showing a few of these blanks being turned. The large sections of burr sycamore are left over from the tree I collected last year and the walnut was featured my previous blog post.

At 19” diameter, this natural edge burr sycamore blank should make a fairly impressive bowl, when finished. I’ll pressure wash the bark edge after roughing out, so that the natural colours are highlighted. Sycamore is one of the easiest timbers to dry, as it very rarely cracks…

Two large burr sycamore bowls amongst an even larger pile of shavings!...

Below, is one of the pieces of walnut from my last post – all these shavings are from just a couple of smallish bowls…

The top photo shows my first natural edge piece in ash. I certainly like the overall effect, as the rippled grain adds to its character. I sourced the whole tree from a local woodland, shortly before it would have become firewood.