Hi, Alan Stratton, from As Wood Turns (www.AsWoodTurns.com) In woodturning, we turn a lot of different
woods.
But some woods are harder to turn than others.
This happens to be the root of a rose that I dug up a bit ago.
My yard seems to have an excess of roses.
I've tried to turn this different little vase.
It actually came from this part of this root.
The root came down to about here and then tended to flare out.
I guess it hit hard pan in the dirt.
I'm not sure, exactly, what to call this a success or not but yes, let's call it
a success.
Then I'm not sure what to do with the rest of the root.
Do you have suggestions?
Meanwhile, let's turn this piece of this root.
In preparing this chunk of rose, I first pressure washed it to remove as much dirt as possible.
Then, I trimmed the side roots but not completely – I want see if I can incorporate them into
the vase.
This root is unusual in that all roots seemed to radiate out at the same level.
We'll see.
I'm putting the cut side to the headstock on a steb center.
Since the roots radiate, I can find a place to put the live center.
Most of the side roots quickly disappeared.
I guess I do not want a Medusa vase.
I am woodturner and not much of a carver.
After just a little, I adjusted the tail stock just a little to try to center it better.
Then cut a tenon on the bottom that I can use to mount this piece of rose.
Then back to shaping the vase, little by little.
I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to get from this little rosey.
I'm hollowing with a spindle gouge to cut from the center out before switching to a
round nose scraper for the deep center and refinement.
I'm still practicing cutting with the spindle gouge, keeping the flutes closed enough to
not catch and do a nice cut.
It's good pratie.
I switched to the exterior to refine the shape mostly with a spindle gouge.
I'm trying to balance the visual sense of the roots, the voids, a smaller base, and
the thickness of the side walls.
Trying to plan ahead, I went to the back side of the lathe to cut a groove on the inside.
I want to use it to reverse and remount the vase later.
There is still a lot of bark in this piece.
I'm spending some time now to try to scrape it out from between the roots.
Right now, the top edge is really ugly and there are voids and still a lot of bark inclusions.
I'm going to try to carve the bark out; widening the inclusions, and shaping the top
edge.
I'm using my not recommended reciprocal carver.
Finally, I'm reversing the vase on to the groove I cut earlier.
This gives me a chance to refine the base just a little.
Although the wood is very wet, I'm sanding a little now on the lathe with coarse sandpaper.
Then, I'll let it dry a couple of days to make it easier for final hand sanding.
Then sand, sign, and finish with walnut oil.
My rose vase is finished.
It's growing on me.
It is unique.
The side roots and voids look like fingers reaching up.
I still have a larger chunk of the same root.
I'd appreciate ideas of what to turn with it and more yet to be harvested from my yard.
How many turnings from rose have you seen?
We'll see you again next week for another woodturning video.
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Until next week, this is Alan Stratton from As Wood Turns dot com.
Let's keep on turning.

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