The making of a sphere jig for the wood lathe, on the fly.

Willow Acacia; The turning process of wet/green wood. From the pictures at the bottom. You can see the amount of cracks I needed to attend to. After  the first turning and each time I finish a turning, I add a mixture of shellac, walnut oil (which I didn't like, and used lest of each time.) I also tried tung oil mixed with shellac and two parts alcohol. I can say, as you can see, no other cracks or larger cracks developed. I consider my process a success. the moisture meter is now reading 7.5 to 10% .                            The third picture from the top shows a clear coat finish of cyanoacrylate, sanded to 1200. 

 Filling with azurite, gold dust,silver dust, turquoise .

 Carving out the existing cracks.

 Covering, with excess fall off, to help slow the drying process.

 My hollowing method used.

 All tooling handmade

 LED LIGHT, very helpful. found at Costco

 Colt drilling system

 Parting off, what started off ss the top.

 Home made steady rest, with inline skater wheels

 Here's where I began, to nurture a shape, a design from this piece. I was going to hollow from the right, and chisel down the left to a point. As you have seen above, I went another direction.
The moisture content was well above 25% at the beginning,  and it's right around 8% two weeks later. I will be trying the same technique on the next turning... Stay tuned for further updates. Visit me at  https://www.etsy.com/shop/GMStudiosPens