Cicip Working

Hi Everyone,

Well, it has stopped raining, snowing, and being generally crazy with regards to the weather around here so Im going to go down and take a look at the bowl.

In my last posting I indicated that I had hollowed it out more and here is a photo of that:


There is a problem here, however, and its called tear out. The grain in this piece of wood ran straight across the blank and when I cut across the grain, the ends of the fibers tore instead of cutting cleanly across. Here is a photo of that. If you look at the center of the bowl wall youll see a whitish area. That is torn grain.

There are several ways to deal with that-sanding, which can take a while to sand away, or you can stiffen the fibers with shellac or lacquer and then lightly re-cut the surface with a newly sharped bowl gouge:


And thats what Ive decided to do here. Ive sprayed some lacquer across the surface and its going to dry and harden the fibers. Then Ill re-sharpen my gouge and gently cut the surface until its smooth:


Im going to let this harden and Ill be back a little later today to work on it more.

VW

Frank Smith is having an "End of the World" sale.
Prices are discounted by up to 50%.
Dont wait! Sale ends December 21 2012!

Well, the league season at Whiteford Valley has come to an end. We ended with our yearly scrambles and dinner afterwards - a great time. Seems there is new competition between 4 of us. We decided to play our own end of year tournament for winter bragging rights. On the sixth hole, Bob Johnson blew out his left knee trying to rip a drive. His drive was in great shape, but his knee was not, and he had to sit out for the rest of the round. A rematch will take place in the next few weeks. Sorry Bob!