Cherry Burl

A friend dropped a large Cherry Burl by the shop, It has been sitting for 5 years in a barn!! Talk about dry! well I got arround to turning it, even got a cored bowl (gift for the givers of the burl)

4 coats of finish, looks pretty good!

Deep Hollowing III

Here are the stats the bar is 52 length 22 trap section 30" reach of 1 3/4 DOM with a solid plug on the holder end, drilled to fit custom tool holders as well as many of the popular tools (Jordan, Stewart etc).Trap is 36 wide with a 2" roller on the bottom and fixed upper bar. It has an 8" adjustment to accomodate many different lathe heights.Cutter holder, I have made a 90, 60, 45 and straight all will hold many differnt shapes of cutters that are on the market!

more Deep Hollowing

The side view of the system on my Vicmarc short bed.

Deep Hollowing

I couldn't get all the Pictures on the AAW site so here they are!


This is the deep hollowing bar

The trap
better view of the trap











below is a close up of the boring bar with
oval cutter and slight angle holder