Marbling Wood Turning

Chose a piece of birch and marked a 1 4 mortis and a light wood mallet.

Marbling wood turning.

I turned a blank of cherry wood to the shape i wanted then created 3 circular grooves to put. Video shows how to marble on small woodturned ring boxes. In this video i take a piece of willow and certainly make it weep you can probably tell by the video that i made it up as i went along. 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.

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. Figured marblewood scientific name marmaroxylon racemosum is from northeastern south america. Heartwood is a yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks. Large pores in no specific arrangement few.

No two patterns are ever alike. This week i wanted to try using different milliput colours to see if i could create a marbling effect. Grain tends to be straight or slightly interlocked. In pre industrial england these skills were.

Marblewood tree is known for the highly distinctive stripes ranging in color from dark brown to even purple or black. Blade stayed sharp and shows no sign of damage. The striping is random and irregular. I found the grain.

Marblewood lumber turning wood hobby wood and instrument wood. The chisel was almost 1 4 shorter after cutting a 1 4 mortis through 3 4 birch. Sapwood is paler than the heartwood and is a solid yellowis. 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.

Texture is medium with open pores. 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.