Marbling Wood Turning

Heartwood is yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks paler sapwood is about one inch thick and is solid yellow lacking the contrasting streaks found in the heartwood.

Marbling wood turning.

Our facility produces birdseye maple lumber curly maple tiger maple lumber and we stock over 70 species of exotic wood. I found the grain. Grain tends to be straight or slightly interlocked. 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.

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. 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. 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. Chose a piece of birch and marked a 1 4 mortis and a light wood mallet. Blade stayed sharp and shows no sign of damage. Video shows how to marble on small woodturned ring boxes.

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

Figured marblewood scientific name marmaroxylon racemosum is from northeastern south america. 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. I turned a blank of cherry wood to the shape i wanted then created 3 circular grooves to put. Trees are typically 65 100 feet tall with a maximum base diameter of 2 feet.

Large pores in no specific arrangement few. Heartwood is a yellow to golden brown with irregular brown purple or black streaks.