♫ εηdεd ♫ How is this for a start?
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On one of the 2 book matched J, DOgwood pieces the bark inclusion goes clear through, just so you know. I personally love filling pieces like this but if you want me to cut it down I can. THey are about 15x 2 7/8 x 1 and the wider is 3 1/2. I'm sure I can find some nice Mahogany boards and who knows what else but I wanted to get this rolling.
Sprung what do you use to fill in pieces?
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I don't know about Matt but I have used sawdust, bronze shavings but so far my favorite is I go to the beach and collect just the shells that are eroded down to the translucent, iridescent layer. I crush them to different particle sizes and use a mix of sizes. I have also used clear epoxy and amber poly resin. I have mica and feldspar I have been meaning to crush and use.
It depends on the project. I don't have a lot of experience filling in on flatwork projects thus far, but I've used epoxy with success.
In turnings, and right now I focus on smaller turnings like pens, wine bottle stoppers, beer bottle openers, tool handles, etc, I've used black CA, coffee grounds or ebony sanding dust or another sanding dust with thin CA. I've also used medium CA for some smaller fill in. I'd like to try turquoise, but haven't ponied up the money for some yet.
Here's a pen I did from a piece of Olive Burl that had a lot of small checks throughout it. When I glued the tube in, I did so using black CA so the black CA would fill in the checks from that direction. (Rather than having clear CA show the tube.) When close to final size, I filled in all the checks with black CA. This is one of my favorite pens I've made and it's in good hands - I sent it to another member here. I'd really like to get my hands on some more olive burl with this level of small checking - I'd really like to make a few more pens like this one, including one for myself.
That looks great what is CA?
CA is short for cyanoacrylate - aka, super glue. Though I don't use the cheap stuff you'll find at the hardware store. I currently use CA from Satellite City - it's what I mainly use to finish my pens at the current time.
Kevin, few here could teach you as much about turning as Matt, at least with small things like pens. His work is stellar!!!!! Tony
I don't know about that, Tony... My knowledge of turning doesn't extend very far and I'd still got lots and lots to learn. There's a few things I can do very, very well, such as pens and the like, but what I know in turning only scratches the surface in the world and realm of turning. I do, however, appreciate the vote of confidence, lol.