Experimenting with ornamental work. Sycamore. #woodturning

Four facets. Sort of square, sort of round. #woodturning

Sawtooth pattern experiment. #woodturning #ornamentalturning

More facets. These are concave by increasing the relative cut depth. #woodturning #LatheEngraver

Last #woodturning update is some ornamental sine waves done on the LatheEngraver.

Finally got around to working on this figured maple. Not really a burl, more like a grow-over with some extra bits.

Playing around with modified settings for cutting facets. #woodturning

Five-sided vase. Cherry, dyed, spray lacquer. Of course I dropped it when it was nearly done. #woodturning

Finishing up this scalloped ambrosia maple bowl. #woodturning

So few #woodturning posts on BlueSky. Here is a work in progress. Scalloped ambrosia maple.

Hard to cut that nice a heart on a bandsaw! #woodturning #cnc

Finished up this faceted ambrosia maple bowl. Done with the LatheEngraver. #woodturning #cnc

Finished up the scalloped black walnut. 2.5 hours of cutting on the LatheEngraver and about the same amount of sanding. #woodturning #cnc

Work in progress, 9 scallops on a black walnut bowl. #woodturning

More LatheEngraver facets. This has some rotation to the facets. #woodturning #cnc

Working out how to cut facets on the LatheEngraver. #woodturning #cnc

Working on putting the LatheEngraver and my programming skills to the test. This is a piece of American Elm. The interior support is a continuous spiral. #woodturning #cnc

One nice thing about #woodturning is that mistakes are easily erased with some spontaneous oxidation. And a glass of wine. That helps, too.

An old dry piece of Siberian Elm i have had around for a long time. A few pewa to stabilize cracks near the rim. Not the best species to do Beads, but it seemed a bit bland. #woodturning

Haven't done any natural edge bowls in a while. ~12" black cherry. #woodturning

A bit of ambrosia maple on the lathe tonight. There was more curl in it than I had originally thought! #woodturning

A shallow walnut bowl with a little decoration. #woodturning #cnc

Big green piece of beech on the lathe today. Just a bit of spalting. #woodturning

Beyond round (at least at the rim). #woodturning #cnc

No bandsaw required for cutting the perfect hex rim. #woodturning #cnc

I was singing to myself during my drive to work this morning. I clicked the "next" button on the steering wheel.

Had some passengers. #woodturning

How in the world did it take me this long to discover Half Man Half Biscuit?

Maybe it is just one of those days/weeks/months, but I find myself being more and more annoyed when artists self-describe their work in social media posts as "amazing" "beautiful" "fabulous" etc. Aren't you posting so I can make that determination?

Back to doing hexes. Operator error led to an alignment problem so I tried to make it look like little hexes spilling through the larger gap

Specialty CNCs require specialty toolpaths. I've now pretty well worked out how to take any 3 axis Gcode and transform it into 4 axis coordinates that follow the workplace profile. #cnc #woodturning

Lasering on a simple apple bowl. #woodturning #cnc #laser

A little different fluting approach. Linear 3-axis gcode is mapped on to the surface profile of the bowl. Some calculus was used (poorly, still lots of improvements in the works) #woodturning #cnc

Can't stop fluting. With some extra. #woodturning #cnc

Fluted cherry. I put a coat of sanding sealer on. I might just stop there.

More fluting. #woodturning #cnc #LatheEngraver

Using the drinking fountain outside my new office feels a bit dangerous.

Fun with flutes. #woodturning #cnc

A couple of pewa in a punky piece of apple. #woodturning #woodworking #cnc

Dots and dashes. Cherry. #woodturning

Nearly have all the code for generating a variety of flutes done.

Maple root burl. I have hated nearly everything about this. Voids were full of mud and rocks, killing some chainsaw blades and whacking tools. I didn't get the rim well balanced. It is a pretty piece of wood. #woodturning

Basket illusion lines, fast! I've been working on being able to set the range. Custom plugins used in @octoprint.org #wooturning #cnc #laser

Found a lovely little site, eschersket.ch , for doing spirograph-like geometric patterns that are fantastic for engraving box lids.

Vesicles. Worked on wrapping 3d objects.

You cannot even tell it neglected to wipe off the dust when it is top lit. #woodturning #cnc

3rd or 4th attempt trying to get this to work the way I've wanted.

Stumbling my way through my first business venture: www.transpirationturning.com Special thanks to @ldojason.bsky.social for helping me make this real, and the Friday crew for listening to me ramble about it over the years.

Hexagons.

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