Woodturning a Tamarack Burl - Part 1

[@MRBRADSTER96]

Can’t wait for part 2 Frank. Love the vids.

[@frankdidomizio]

thanks

[@gwynnfarrell1856]

It's great that you can get cores out of the wood. Looking forward to seeing that big bowl all finished!

[@frankdidomizio]

thanks

[@williamswhistlepipes]

Great work, I’d like to try some stuff this size but my current lathe a union graduate gives me 10 inch over bed on the bowl turning side . Im looking into a floor standing tool rest. Good work I like your style of turning 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@frankdidomizio]

Thanks for the nice comments, yes 10" over the bed is ok for smaller burls, but often they have wings which require an even larger swing.

[@chrisjohnston2449]

very nice sized burl. I have the same core system. I find it easier to do the bigger bowl first. I turn a tenon or a recess on the small bowl area, core out the big bowl, then I can turn it around to put a tenon on that end to turn it around again to get the small core. I am looking forward to the next video. keep up the good work.

[@frankdidomizio]

thanks, yes , i have heard that some people core the way you describe. it is a bit safer so you are sure to get a large tenon on all the cores, but I have got used to doing it this way which i think is a bit faster if you are into coring a lot of pieces.

[@area50juan]

Nice, i keep eyeballing the corepro's but they're so expensive.

[@frankdidomizio]

Thanks, yes, I agree. I went for many years and did many cores before I decided to make the jump to the Korpo bits. For wet wood I don't think it makes much difference, but if you are trying to core dry burls or anything with epoxy it is really hard on the HSS bits, so that is the main reason I purchased a few of them for my Oneway hollowing set.

[@robertcornelius3514]

Nice, but I'm soo sorry you have to turn on such a cheaply built lathe. Ha

[@frankdidomizio]

thanks, you must have one as well or one from the competition 😁