Woodturning A Commissioned Emerging Wine Bottle

Welcome back to my shop. I've been a miss for a while and some of you might know from my Facebook that I've been doing a show, well not a show, it was a fair and I was there for a week turning and selling my stuff and I didn't have much time to plan for that fair so I took the time and prepared the stands for displaying things on and everything I needed around it and it took up all of my time so there were no videos for a little while but now I'm back in my shop everything is set up again and we're ready to make beautiful things once more. So what I have here today as you can see from the beautiful beautiful color of the moss on the wood is a piece of olive branch. Now this was given to me by a guy at the fair and he brought it in from his house from his garden and he commissioned me to make something beautiful for him. He didn't say what he told me to to just take my pick and do whatever I want with it and since I've noticed that him and his family were were very impressed by the emerging forms that I've made if you remember the emerging goblets and the emerging vase I thought it would only be fitting to prepare an emerging form for him from this piece of olive. And since we are in Italy and they are Italian I only thought it fitting that what we'll do today is an emerging wine bottle. But everything is what it is and you won't stay in pain. As you can see some of the spalting and coloration here and of course also here in the crotch side. I'm going to reverse mount it in the same way so I will be able to create the mortise here at the bottom so I will be able to chuck this into my jaws. Your wounded cries Please I'm tired with a bad disease You're torn and holy My mind is swimming in turf and time dissolving slowly Please I'm down with a bad disease You're torn and holy My mind is swimming in turf and time dissolving slowly I'm breathing this in and choking you out by the seed of the mountain spruce Please have anything To do with you My feelings and the strange power I choose I'm flying on a pilot and I'm pushing her Mountain wire, mountain wire We've made the general shape of our would-be bottle and this is my least favorite part which is drilling the hole and the reason for that is that olive is very dense and the grain goes every which way so I had very poor success so far with drilling olive Ask instruction paper Near descent another layer Miles down Bumps of devil's tongue Good lord, good lord Look, look First time I felt Where fiercest thunder revels Now, I have a bottle of wine here as a reference which I'm not going to drink because it's not wise to drink and turn and also I don't like wine so that's that I'm just going to use it as a reference for the shape of the bottle Where the leaves of you The leaves of you Dancing in their boot Glowing between me and you This is the shape of the bottle All turned and done Now, as always, our favorite part Sanding this down and then oiling it up Well, we have the piece sanded down to 320 And I will give you a better look in a second Once I get my hands gloved Very, very nice grain patterns Going here There's some bark left over here I think the shape came out really pleasing In its form And we're ready to oil this up And make the grain pop Ok While I'm doing this I would like to say a few words about sanding paper Now, one of the first thing I've learned I think it was Carl Jacobson That I've heard first say that What he said is that you should use sandpaper Like it doesn't cost anything, like you're not paying for it Don't be stringy Use as much as you need to get the results that you're looking for And after a few years of turning I've noticed that there's sandpaper and there's sandpaper And I'm not in the position To afford the most expensive, best Sandpaper on the market And when you come to think about it It's only a paper with some particles on it What is the big difference between a cheap sandpaper And an expensive sandpaper Well, the difference is huge I think in the end when you look at it If you need to use a certain quantity of sandpaper To sand a piece to the desired effect And if you're using a low quality sandpaper You will use double or third Or three times the amount of high quality sandpaper It's a world of difference It's also time consuming to sand with inadequate sandpaper I'm not saying that anyone should go That everyone should go and invest in high quality sandpaper But if you can and it's available to you It is much more recommended than cheap sandpaper Now a friend of mine from the US that works for 3M Christopher He sent me a few packages Of high quality sandpaper Let me show you for a second Just as an example This is the 3M sandpaper 240 grit And this is the cheapest sandpaper I could find In the area where I live Also 240 grit And right now I'm with gloves But if you just touch the sandpaper You can feel that this one is obviously much thicker It's on a thicker backing paper It's gonna be more comfortable to work with But when you actually sand with those two You can see the difference You can see the amount of material that is being Sanded away from the wood While using this cheap sandpaper And again I'm not saying don't buy cheap sandpaper If you can't afford anything better You do it and truthfully I can't afford anything better I do buy the cheapest sandpaper I can Which means I use a lot more than I should And it takes more time to sand than normally But I simply cannot afford the higher quality sandpaper I've done some calculations And it does come a little bit cheaper With these Even though I spend more time doing so So it's just an economic decision At the moment But this paper When run over the wood When it's spinning The amount of material that comes off it And the finish that it gives to the wood It's completely different It's really completely different And first of all I want to thank Christopher For sending me this high quality sandpaper And like I discussed with him None of us are sandpaper scientists So I don't know in the end What is the real difference In the process of making Maybe the particles are stronger From a different material Maybe the glue used for gluing the particles To the paper is different And it's stronger And it's better We don't know exactly what is the difference We just know that in the field When you're sanding The high quality sandpaper Does a much better job than the low quality sandpaper Again, that said If you can only afford the cheap stuff It will do the work Only it will take longer To achieve the same result As you can see It takes a few seconds For the oil to penetrate the wood But It makes the darker Parts of the grain So much darker And it actually shows up More grain patterns Where you didn't think there were But there actually are Different grains In different directions There it is Our emerging wine bottle Made out of olive A commissioned piece I hope you enjoyed This week's video And I hope to see you Back in my shop Really soon