{"id":262,"date":"2015-01-23T23:41:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T07:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-03-09T22:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T05:32:47","slug":"teak-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Teak Dinner Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-263 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-001-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Teak plate 001\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-001-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-001-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turning a plate on a lathe is a challenge because of the difficulty in holding the relatively thin piece of wood.\u00a0 However, the task has been made much easier in recent years with a 4-jaw, self centering chuck that can grip either in expansion mode inside a turned, shallow void on the bottom, or contraction mode around a turned ring on the bottom.\u00a0 (Click on any image to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-264\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-003-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Teak plate 003\" width=\"371\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Teak-plate-003-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teak is a naturally oily wood.\u00a0 For a plate on which food will be served, and which is then going to go into soapy water, the natural oil helps preserve the wood and keep it from drying and cracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning a plate on a lathe is a challenge because of the difficulty in holding the relatively thin piece of wood.\u00a0 However, the task has been made much easier in recent years with a 4-jaw, self centering chuck that can grip either in expansion mode inside a turned, shallow void on the bottom, or contraction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teak Dinner Plate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,8],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bowls-2","category-woodwork","tag-teak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}