Sycamore

Product Description

This wood works easily with machine and hand tools, with a moderate blunting effect. Very sharp tools are advised for a clean finish. It turns, glues, sands and paints well, carves easily and polishes very well.

Please note, the image is an example of what you could create with Sycamore wood.

Sycamore wood blanks are available in squares, rounds and spindles. All sizes are listed in inches unless stated otherwise.

Sample turned by Alex Bellringer.

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Reviews

Customer Reviews

By Ken Webb on 24th January 2025

"Brilliant piece of wood. Cut really well on my bandsaw"

By Nicholas Palliser on 18th November 2024

"Excellent blank, as described and is now a lovely salad bowl."

By Mark John Parsons on 25th October 2024

"Good material at a great price!!"

By Gary Ferguson on 12th April 2024

"The usual outstanding quality and great service that I’ve come to expect from Turners Retreat. They are my number one choice for bowl blanks."

By Gary on 28th March 2024

"The quality of blanks from Turner's Retreat is exceptional. What's more they've reliably delivered this same sky-high quality for every order I've made. In a time where there's so many rubbish blanks listed on the internet it's a real relief to find a retailer like Turner's Retreat. Highly recommended!"

By Gary on 14th February 2024

"Exceptional quality at a fair price. There's so many rubbish and over priced bowl blanks for sale that it's a pleasure to buy from Turner's Retreat, where you can rely on getting really good blanks at a decent price. Thoroughly recommended!"

By Gary on 12th February 2024

"You can rely on Turners Retreat to deliver excellent quality bowl blanks at fair prices. I've bought dozens of blanks from them and I've always been delighted."

By Mike Crabtree on 23rd January 2024

"All products excellent as usual"

By Gary Paul on 23rd January 2024

"The size and quality were perfect and the price was the best I could find. Bowl blanks from here are always dry and I very rarely have splits, certainly no more than anywhere else I buy from. After buying wood from many sources this is one of only two places I purchase from now, strongly recommended."

By Brian Davis on 18th December 2023

"Excellent bowl blank, waxed around the edge to reduce the chance of splitting and cracking."

By Nigel Gratland on 15th December 2023

"Nice clean looking spindle blank. Pleased with the service I received"

By Alan Webb on 5th November 2023

"Good product at a good price"

By Phil Lawrey on 4th November 2023

"Lovely wood to work with. Great finish on turned bowls. "

By Colin on 27th February 2023

"I bought 2 blanks but one of them had a significant crack / shake through it. I did wonder if it would hold together but alas did shattered when being turned. Given what I was making I was able just to use what was left. Please in future make sure that blanks don't have shakes that could splinter when turned. Potentially very dangerous."

By Barbara Cox on 10th January 2023

"Great quality wood as always and turned lovely"

By Jeff Parker on 16th November 2022

"Not used yet but seems ok"

By KEN ward on 18th October 2022

"Really good service"

By Alistair Thomson on 17th April 2022

"Will probably reorder."

By John Ozelton on 22nd February 2022

"Used the blank to turn a fruit bowl for my daughter, who was very pleased with the end result."

By Mr Derek Drain on 2nd January 2022

"A good piece of material"

By Mr Joe Diggins on 2nd November 2021

"xxxxxxxxxxx"

By Mr Hugh Suddick on 31st October 2021

"as advertised, delivered on time, competitive pricing, would purchase again when needed."

By Robin Rycraft on 30th October 2021

"As I am fairly new to turning this is the first time I have used sycamore. The wood is easy to work with on the lathe and finishes well. Any flaws in the finishing are my mistakes and not the product."

By Andrew Crane on 29th October 2021

"Easy turning"

By PeteB on 22nd October 2021

"Happy with this"

By Phil Lawrey on 15th October 2021

"Lovely wood turning blank but not used yet"

By Ian Kingsford on 1st September 2021

"Nice piece of wood to turn, size as stated, will buy wood blanks again! definitely recommended to shop here."

By Mr David Cusick on 28th August 2021

"Made into honey dibbers"

By Mathew on 17th July 2021

"Fantastic service and beautiful wood."