Playing with color 5

[Jonkou]

Playing with dyes today and came up with these… makes up for the cracked burned one from earlier.




a new recipe…

 

[Don Ratcliff]

You are seriously onto something revolutionary imho

 

[Eric Rorabaugh]

WOW!!!

 

[Peter White]

These all look very good a lot better than the burnt ones.

 

[Nature Man]

Second one could possibly qualify for Mardi Gras! Chuck

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

The second one is unusual .

 

[Jonkou]

You are seriously onto something revolutionary imho

Thanks, it’s messy and time consuming but worth it for the unique look. Goal is to make plain wood competitive with the fancy stuff at the galleries.

 

[Karl_TN]

@Jonkou I wanted to say thanks again for trading the oil candles because I'll have some nice presents to give out this year.

Here are my results from applying Chestnut Spirit Stain colors on some figured maple. I wanted to pass along these pics since you also have access to curly maple that would look great dyed for the Christmas season.





This last one is dog wood that I used a beading tool to try something different.


Please no praises on these pics. This post was not meant to take away from this John's hard work refining this look over the years. If any has any ideas on making different style then pass those along.

 

[Jonkou]

Very nice work Karl, they’re addicting aren’t they.

 

[Karl_TN]

Very nice work Karl, they’re addicting aren’t they.

Yes, very addicting and a whole lot less work than hollowing out a bowl. It's your fault that I've not been turning any bowls lately.

I took off work today for a service project to help cut up a large oak tree that came down in a recent storm. As luck would have it the oak tree damage a wild cherry tree that also needed to come down. I'm already thinking about cutting these cherry blocks for oil candles blanks instead of bowl blanks.

 

[BurlyBurl]

How did you do that?

 

[SENC]

You are seriously onto something revolutionary imho

You need to show Maya. That would make a great Heart of Pele v3.

@Jonkou , those are awesome!

 

[Tclem]

Those are pretty cool. What candles do you use for those

 

[Jonkou]

Those are pretty cool. What candles do you use for those

Thanks, Firefly

 

[Jonkou]

How did you do that?

Process of layering, burnishing and sealing the colors, it’s still an experiment in progress.

 

[Don Ratcliff]

It would be wonderful if you did a how to on the process.

Please please purdy please with sugar on top

 

[BurlyBurl]

Process of layering, burnishing and sealing the colors, it’s still an experiment in progress.

Well it’s coming out amazing. That chromatic hue makes those colors really nice on the eyes, fantastic work. I have some hickory id like to see that purple on.

 

[Tclem]

I’m going to have to try that. I make a lot of hairsticks and mostly use ebony. Snakewood and a lot of webbwood or dymalux. I don’t use spectrolay. Not dense enough but I want to try coloring maple sticks. After 11 years of making 10 million hairsticks I should have tried this by now.

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

Might want to try staining Bradford pear as well. It is fairly light colored and doesn't have any major grain to catch on those small turnings. Also apple sapwood should do you a treat as well.
I made my chopsticks outta Bradford. Worked like a charm and it was dry.