Platters

[Steve Walker]

Here's a couple of platters I turned for a swap on another site. One now resides in California, the other is in Maryland.

First one up is walnut, finished with walnut oil, and beall buffed.
16" x 1 1/2"

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And..... Ash with a persimmon insert and chrome beauty rings top and bottom. The back side is dyed with black shoe dye, then the whole thing is finished with Formby's tung oil and buffed.

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Comments, critical and/or analytical are welcome.

Thanks for looking, and Happy Turning (if you're a turner)

Steve

 

[419Tomb]

COOL!

 

[NYWoodturner]

Very nice Steve - I especially like the chrome beauty rings. That is a new treatment I have never seen before. I like it! Well done
Scott

 

[barry richardson]

Those are sweet! Did you fabricate the rings, or are they a product you buy? Looks like that shoe dye works pretty well, Mike is gonna love them!

 

[Steve Walker]

Barry,
A little of both. I bought the rings at the big name Hobby store, but they only came in even number size increments. The ring on the top side needed to be 7", so I had to cut a section out of a 8" ring and re-roll it to close it back up. They also had brass, but not very many.

Mike got the ash piece, the other is in California. And yes, I do believe he liked it.

 

[DKMD]

Nicely done, Steve-O!

 

[Dane Fuller]

Very nice, Steve. I really like #2.

 

[Kevin]

Very beautiful. I don't like the shoe polish but I am a narrow-minded hardheaded idiot so that opinion doesn't count. Excellent work Steve.

:welldone:

 

[Wes Murphy]

Excellent work Steve. I like both of them.