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Turning Cork?

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Bill21:
Anyone tried it? From what little I’ve read it’s difficult to turn but rather needs sanding to size and shape.

Wood spinner:
Being soft flexable and unstable I think it would be a challenge and a half

chunkey monkey:
I think you should start by drinking the contents first !
After that you can turn anything!

Peter Hollis:
I've done it. Bought some optic corks for making bottle stoppers but got wrong size. Made a sort of mini Jam chuck, slid cork on (nice and tight). Used good sharp skew at high speed. Finish turning too big and take down to exact size with sandpaper (I thing I went straight it at 320 grit). Probably lost 20%.

BrianH:
I once turned a vase/hollow form thing from a log of cork oak I lifted from a roadside in Portugal [I think]. The differing density between the wood and its thick cork coating made life extremely interesting. Cant for the life of me remember the exact method but I did succeed so it can be done. I seem to remember that the cork shrank away from the wood slightly, leaving a small step, but it wasn't enough to ruin the finished article, which kicked around here as a novelty for years.
Brian

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