Olive

[Neil Lawton]

Italian Olive 7" x 1 3/4" splits filled with leak fix filler and finished in Chestnut finishing oil (only 1 coat so far!)

 

[yorkshireman]

I like the shape Neil mate. Olive never lets you down

 

[Cumbrian Craig]

An eye catching bowl, A great result

 

[Bill Mooney]

Another beautiful bowl Neil. It must only weigh a few ounces it’s so thin.

 

[fortress]

Another real beauty Neil, excellent.

 

[Penpal]

Lovely Bowl Neil,wonderful turning.

Peter.

 

[martin.pearson]

Wow, that is really nice. I think Olive is a great wood but unfortunately I can't buy it locally. I buy Olive wood pen blanks but that is all, bought the first pen blank to make a pen when one of my Granddaughters was born & they named her Olive, it made such a nice pen I just had to keep buying it lol

Have to ask Neil, what is leak fix filler ?

 

[AllenN]

well done Neil that is lovely.

 

[Neil Lawton]

Wow, that is really nice. I think Olive is a great wood but unfortunately I can't buy it locally. I buy Olive wood pen blanks but that is all, bought the first pen blank to make a pen when one of my Granddaughters was born & they named her Olive, it made such a nice pen I just had to keep buying it lol

Have to ask Neil, what is leak fix filler ?

Leak fix is a 2 part filler designed to fill holes in petrol tanks, radiators, water tanks, etc. It dries to a dark grey colour in 10 mins and shows up black when you put a finish over it. I buy it from the local Wilco Motosave.

 

[martin.pearson]

OK so next question then is how did this come about lol, it's not the sort of thing I would think of using to repair damaged or split wood or have I missed the part in the small print where it says "Leak Fix Filler is excellent at repairing splits & cracks in Italian Olive Wood when turning bowls" lol

 

[Neil Lawton]

OK so next question then is how did this come about lol, it's not the sort of thing I would think of using to repair damaged or split wood or have I missed the part in the small print where it says "Leak Fix Filler is excellent at repairing splits & cracks in Italian Olive Wood when turning bowls" lol

I can't take credit for it as I remember another turner doing it years ago either on a forum or in the GMC magazine Woodturning.
At the time people were making black filler by adding toner or soot to epoxy resin so this was a time saver and cheap.

If you are doing solid fills of colour you can add colours or metal powders to Araldite for small fills or buy fastglas resin for medium fills. It dries pink due to the hardener but that doesn't matter, or show, if you are doing an opaque fill and it's a lot cheaper than casting resin!

 

[Pierre]

Or you could of course use the stuff designed for wood Liberon Shellac Filler Sticks - Tin of 10: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools



PG

 

[wm460]

That is a beauty Neil.

 

[Neil Lawton]

Or you could of course use the stuff designed for wood Liberon Shellac Filler Sticks - Tin of 10: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools



PG

Where's the fun in that?

 

[Chriscb]

I know I'm a bit late to this thread..... I've used coffee grinds to fill cracks and such like in bowls and pens. Drip in thin CA over the coffee and a squirt of accelerator, rub and repeat. It's a great talking point if you're showing the bowl off to someone.

As to the Olive bowl, the subject of this thread. Lovely continuous curve on both inside and outside with uniformly thin walls. Turned with great skill no wonder you're a 'Legend'. Any reason why you choose to have a flat rim rather than a rounded one?

And where did you source your Olive from - that looks very good indeed.

Regards,
Chriscb

 

[Doug]

That’s a lovely bowl Neil

 

[PetrolP]

That's a cracker!!
Great shape
Beautiful wood
Well done

Peter

 

[Neil Lawton]

I know I'm a bit late to this thread..... I've used coffee grinds to fill cracks and such like in bowls and pens. Drip in thin CA over the coffee and a squirt of accelerator, rub and repeat. It's a great talking point if you're showing the bowl off to someone.

As to the Olive bowl, the subject of this thread. Lovely continuous curve on both inside and outside with uniformly thin walls. Turned with great skill no wonder you're a 'Legend'. Any reason why you choose to have a flat rim rather than a rounded one?

And where did you source your Olive from - that looks very good indeed.

Regards,
Chriscb

Hi Chris, saw this earlier then forgot, sorry!
I bought a number of dead, rotting, and dying trees from a friends garden centre that succumbed in the winter of 2010 / 2011.
The rim itself is not flat but drops slightly to the hollow of the bowl which can give a better aesthetic than rounding over which can look a bit like oversanding the edge.