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[BAD ORCA]

 

[thinwater]

This winter I made wooden turned Bavrian-style icicle earrings for a number of family members from recycled floor from the boat we used to cruise. I liked the connection. I left them with a nice burnished finish. They were tiny, so I actually turned them on my metal lathe rather than the wood lathe (I have a wood-turning tool rest for it and it does high RPM). Curiously, you use full-size chisels even for such tiny work. You just work delicately.

Not a good image, but something I snapped of a few. Fortunatly for me, you really can't see both earrings at the same time, so slight difference are OK.

 

[john6206]

Nice work!

I salvaged a garage full of flooring from my daughter’s house and made some projects out of it. Not nearly as meaningful as the sole of your boat.

 

[BAD ORCA]

This winter I made wooden turned Bavrian-style icicle earrings for a number of family members from recycled floor from the boat we used to cruise. I liked the connection. I left them with a nice burnished finish. They were tiny, so I actually turned them on my metal lathe rather than the wood lathe (I have a wood-turning tool rest for it and it does high RPM). Curiously, you use full-size chisels even for such tiny work. You just work delicately.

Not a good image, but something I snapped of a few. Fortunatly for me, you really can't see both earrings at the same time, so slight difference are OK.
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Those are pretty cool. Its just so hard to throw away all that amazing wood on our boats right?. The teak in some of our older boats is probably from trees that were growing in the 1800's. I wish i had a giant warehouse. I would collect it all haha.

 

[BAD ORCA]

Nice work!

I salvaged a garage full of flooring from my daughter’s house and made some projects out of it. Not nearly as meaningful as the sole of your boat.

Thank you. The pictures are from a photographer/ fellow sailor 'Lauric Thiault' https://lauricthiault.com/. Him and his partner are sailing around the world. The pics are from their time in Patagonia. I'm going to give them to my sister who built her own cabin in Maine and is a talented clay/potter artist. I think she will absolutely love them.

I absolutely love seeing people turn reclaimed wood into something completely new and different than what it was originally used for, but keeping it recognizable in its previous form in some way.

 

[capta]

This winter I made wooden turned Bavrian-style icicle earrings for a number of family members from recycled floor from the boat we used to cruise. I liked the connection. I left them with a nice burnished finish. They were tiny, so I actually turned them on my metal lathe rather than the wood lathe (I have a wood-turning tool rest for it and it does high RPM). Curiously, you use full-size chisels even for such tiny work. You just work delicately.

Not a good image, but something I snapped of a few. Fortunatly for me, you really can't see both earrings at the same time, so slight difference are OK.
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And here I thought they were fids for these new fangled lines we're using now.

 

[Will Gilmore]

Most of my projects are from reclaimed wood, but none has come from a boat, and very little of it looks so finished and meaningful.

Absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for posting.

-Will

 

[PaulK]

Not as fancy as you guys. I had some 2x framing left over from adding on to the house.

 

[dLj]

Those are pretty cool. Its just so hard to throw away all that amazing wood on our boats right?. The teak in some of our older boats is probably from trees that were growing in the 1800's. I wish i had a giant warehouse. I would collect it all haha.

Good grief... I still have left-overs from when I was building boats in Spain in the 1980's... Now think about that for a second - that means I actually shipped it all back to the US when I came back in the 1990's... I've used numerous bits and parts on projects but I still have a stash...

dj