Marbling Wood Turning

Trees are typically 65 100 feet tall with a maximum base diameter of 2 feet.

Marbling wood turning.

The chisel was almost 1 4 shorter after cutting a 1 4 mortis through 3 4 birch. Heartwood is a yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks. Marblewood lumber turning wood hobby wood and instrument wood. Woodturning is the craft of using the wood lathe with hand held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation.

No two patterns are ever alike. While the sapwood is usually bears the same distinctively pale yellow color as the heartwood only the heartwood features the trademark striping which makes the wood so appealing to turners. Like the potter s wheel the wood lathe is a simple mechanism which can generate a variety of forms the operator is known as a turner and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery. Marblewood tree is known for the highly distinctive stripes ranging in color from dark brown to even purple or black.

The chisel felt good in the hand to start but as soon as i choked up the plastic would bite my finger with every tap. Texture is medium with open pores. Figured marblewood scientific name marmaroxylon racemosum is from northeastern south america. Heartwood is yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks paler sapwood is about one inch thick and is solid yellow lacking the contrasting streaks found in the heartwood.

The striping is random and irregular. Chose a piece of birch and marked a 1 4 mortis and a light wood mallet. I turned a blank of cherry wood to the shape i wanted then created 3 circular grooves to put. I found the grain.

Grain tends to be straight or slightly interlocked. Video shows how to marble on small woodturned ring boxes. In pre industrial england these skills were. This week i wanted to try using different milliput colours to see if i could create a marbling effect.

Our facility produces birdseye maple lumber curly maple tiger maple lumber and we stock over 70 species of exotic wood. Blade stayed sharp and shows no sign of damage.