audrey rainer collection
Wood Turning
​
- The art or process of fashioning wooden pieces or blocks into various forms and shapes by means of a lathe.
Preparing the wood is critical to the wood turning process. Precise measurement is required to find the center point of the wood. Additionally the wood may be trimmed on a bandsaw. Both techniques ensure a balanced rotation on the lathe.
Lathe:
noun
-
1.a machine for shaping wood, metal, or other material by means of a rotating drive which turns the piece being worked on against changeable cutting tools.
Using special tools the wood is then shaped on the lathe into art pieces like this lovely spalted live edge red oak bowl.
Spalted
​
adjective
-
1.(of wood) containing blackish irregular lines as a result of fungal decay, and sometimes used to produce a decorative surface.
Live Edge
​
​adjective
-
Method of design that uses the natural contour of the bark side of a log as the top rim edge of the bowl.
In this red cedar bowl, purple epoxy is added for a pop of color. A mold is formed to hold the epoxy until it sets. Oftentimes pieces are placed in a pressure pot.
​
​It is then sanded, sealed and polished into the final product.
Pressure Pot
​noun​
-
Pressurized pot that is used to remove air bubbles from epoxy resin objects.​​
