Love that green and gold.Still need to finish these up but thought I would post a pic here. I would love to see other folks post pictures of their stabilizing and casting work!
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Those are sick!Still need to finish these up but thought I would post a pic here. I would love to see other folks post pictures of their stabilizing and casting work!
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That Burl is actually pretty cool! Good luck stabilizing those after you have casted them. I’ve never tried that before I would be interested to see how that goes.Love that green and gold.
This is a large block pour for pen blanks using a really horrid oak burl. Will cut my blanks and then stabilize. I know its backward but as I said the burl was horrid.
Turned a kindergarten pen to see what it would look like turned.
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Will try to let you know. Am waiting a third week for my pump. My pot has been here almost 10 days.That Burl is actually pretty cool! Good luck stabilizing those after you have casted them. I’ve never tried that before I would be interested to see how that goes.
I would love to see other folks post pictures of their stabilizing and casting work!
Thanks for that! You had some great looking pieces in that thread! Hope your still going at it and I would love to see more pictures. My wife thought it was a phase 2 years ago when I jumped into this but I haven’t slowed down a bit, just love creating these things!Those are nice!
I don't recall how much casting is pictured there, there is definitely stabilizing work pictured, but here's a thread showing off in this section: https://woodbarter.com/threads/whats-cooking.30281/
Thanks for that! You had some great looking pieces in that thread! Hope your still going at it and I would love to see more pictures. My wife thought it was a phase 2 years ago when I jumped into this but I haven’t slowed down a bit, just love creating these things!
@Sprung so there are other people like me! I'm so glad that I am not alone in this world. I have the same type of mind set. Once climbing up to the peak of a skill I move on. As for acquiring all the skills to climb the peak in woodworking I know that I will be here for years and years. As a reference to where I am at, I just getting my backpack loaded for the clinb.It's been probably 2 years, or fairly close to that, since I've done any stabilizing work. I have a tendency to, once I master something, get bored of it and move on to something else. After a lot of stabilizing work - at one point I had four vacuum chambers - I had decided it was time for a break for a while and to move on to another area of woodworking. I moved back into furniture building. But not long after that, we moved. More than a year after moving, my shop is finally pretty much set back up and ready to build. I've got a number of furniture projects lined up. Then who knows what area of woodworking I'll dive into next! Someday I will likely do some stabilizing again, but it's most likely to be just for myself, and maybe the occasional extra piece or two to sell. I did keep one chamber and my vacuum pump.
And you ain't getting your chamber back unless you ask really, really nice!!