I spent Saturday @ Poolesville day.  The day started with a parade that was very small town.  These are the parades that I am most familiar with.   My friend Pam is a potter and is making a nice little business of it.  She has her wares in several venues, has done large pottery shows with multiple potters under one roof, but she is just starting this craft booth thing and only the second time with the booth.   She has been a gently pushing me to get my stuff out and start selling.   She said that I could put stuff out with her on Saturday and I took her up on it.  She made some nice sales, not a great day but did ok.  I on the other had got one bottle stopper sale.   It was the first sale to a non-friend that I have had.  I got to see my kids playing drums on the "band wagon" in the parade, had a sale, sat around with friends in the shade.  It was a great, hot, fall day.

ebony challenge part 2

Along with the first piece there was a second piece.  At the thickest part it was about 3/4 inches thick.   Since piece one is so plain and very black, I think it needs to have some color.  I ordered some faux ivory but it is taking probably 2 weeks to be delivered.  I made a couple of ash balls to see how they look and what size I needed to make for the final.  

While waiting for the ivory, I decided to make some out of the ebony and the sap wood.  I didn't have jaws to fit the small piece of ebony that I cut out.  I drilled a hole in a scrap piece of wood and cut some slices in it so that it could grip it better...didn't work as well as I had hoped but CA glue worked fine

ebony challenge

At my last MCW meeting we were given a bag with ebony piece(s) in it. I am not very familiar with, nor do I have the shop to do it,  taking pieces apart and re-assembling them.  I have been seeing pieces and some "how to" on WoodCentral with multiple scopes on a plane.  I thought I would try this..  here is what I had to start with....

 

I wanted to keep the surface plane parallel like it will sit.  I tried using expanding foam.  It may not have been the best but seemed to work well enough.  I put tape around the piece of wood to keep the foam off of it.

I used the tail stock to center the piece on the spot I plan to turn.

I made some errors on this first one but sanded it out.. Made it a little flat bowl shape but not too bad...

Lined up for the center cut.

And the third..

Added a few more and this is the end of day 1...will there be more?  I don't know yet..

maple day 2

I got some time to turn the blanks today.  First I made them round and put a tenon on them...

This created a large amount of  shavings..

My first coring went well with the smallest.  The next smallest with the large tenon was the one with the most ambrosia, and I am pretty sure I went too deep.

Then when I tried to do the largest one, it came flying off, (not that some of the smaller ones didn't) but it grazed my elbow and I chose to stop, get a grip...maybe tomorrow...

today in the driveway

  

BEFORE

Spent 2 hours turning these two logs into turning blanks.  would have liked to spend another 2 hours turning them round but duty calls and have to take my family to a zip line @ national harbor.  Maybe tomorrow!

AFTER