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A friend's neighbor took down an old tree in their yard, and my friend talked the neighbor out of a couple big chunks of the lower trunk. The tree was dying, and the wood was starting to rot and a lot of it was very spongy, so some of it was not usable. There were a few good pieces, though, and this one seemed like a good candidate for some practice with the McNaughton rig. I was told the wood was eucalyptus, but it doesn't smell like any of the eucalypts I've turned in the past. I never saw the leaves, so I haven't really tried to identify the wood.
I'm still getting the hang of using the McNaughton coring tools. To some of you guys, this is old hat, but to the guys who haven't done any coring, maybe this will help you see one way to do the process.
I used a compass and a lumber crayon to roughly lay out a circle...
Got it cut on the bandsaw into something resembling a circle...
Mounted it to the lathe with a faceplate...
Knocked the bark off with a Monster "Indexer". It's essentially an Oland-style tool with a 1/4" bit on one end and a 3/8" bit on the other. Stick it in a handle (I happened to be using the handle from my McNaughton rig) and it's great for "rough" roughing...
One the bark was off, I removed most of the wood with a Ci1, then used a bowl gouge and a square-nosed scraper to get the final shape.
It's important for the McNaughton blades to be set to cut right at the centerline, so I have a block of scrap wood that's cut to the right size for setting a tool rest at the correct height...
I failed to take pics of the first core in progress, but after the first one was removed, I turned it around and used the mother bowl as a jam chuck to put a tenon on the daughter blank...
Continued in next post...
I'm still getting the hang of using the McNaughton coring tools. To some of you guys, this is old hat, but to the guys who haven't done any coring, maybe this will help you see one way to do the process.
I used a compass and a lumber crayon to roughly lay out a circle...
Got it cut on the bandsaw into something resembling a circle...
Mounted it to the lathe with a faceplate...
Knocked the bark off with a Monster "Indexer". It's essentially an Oland-style tool with a 1/4" bit on one end and a 3/8" bit on the other. Stick it in a handle (I happened to be using the handle from my McNaughton rig) and it's great for "rough" roughing...
One the bark was off, I removed most of the wood with a Ci1, then used a bowl gouge and a square-nosed scraper to get the final shape.
It's important for the McNaughton blades to be set to cut right at the centerline, so I have a block of scrap wood that's cut to the right size for setting a tool rest at the correct height...
I failed to take pics of the first core in progress, but after the first one was removed, I turned it around and used the mother bowl as a jam chuck to put a tenon on the daughter blank...
Continued in next post...