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What did you do in your shop today?
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Finished an arborvitae bowl that came from my parent's front yard last year.
Filled in by the knot hole with brass from key cuttings.
About 5" x 11"
Filled in by the knot hole with brass from key cuttings.
About 5" x 11"
Love the grain...nice work 
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@steve bellinger So glad you decided to finish the desk up, it is very special and beautiful. Great work my friend.
I installed more lighting above bandsaws. Yikes why did i wait so long
I need to put a LOT more lights up in the shop as well. Tony
It's more about what I'm going to do in my shop tomorrow... two ash, two pear, and two pistache rounds
I packed up the showroom to go sit at a show in pouring rain to make less than 100.00. At least the entry fee was only 10.
Not in the shop, but just outside the door.
Getting this one up and running.
Getting this one up and running.
Did a little cutting, a little waxing, and a little turning... lots more to do next weekend.
Four pear mill blanks, a small pear roughouts two pistache roughouts, a few pistache pen/striker blanks, and one finish turned, rocker bottom pear bowl sans finish... gonna let it warp and dry before final sanding and finish.
Four pear mill blanks, a small pear roughouts two pistache roughouts, a few pistache pen/striker blanks, and one finish turned, rocker bottom pear bowl sans finish... gonna let it warp and dry before final sanding and finish.
I like to take advantage of the wet woods movement & reshaping it does. Makes for more sanding time but the piece is usually more interesting!!
Finished up a vase I started on several weeks ago. Soon as I find a shady spot someplace I can take a picture of it, I'll post one, but it's a tad on the shiny side and I couldn't get a decent picture tonight. Prior to final polishing and buffing however I did get a couple on the lathe... @Anthony should appreciate it!
Overall height is 9 inches, Diameter at widest point is 2 1/4" - Bored for 1 1/2" x 7 1/2" bud vase to set perfectly and discreetly flush! Finish is oh... rattle can and a half of Spar Varnish. Wet Sanded with BLO, now buffed out with Novus 2 polish, since it was a pain on the buffing wheel.
Then I attempted Barry's cholla pen, and that failed miserably! Did figure out how to dye cholla though!!
Moving on from there I tackled Trev's pen that I owe him for the California Pepper Wood...
Stabilized Spalted California Pepper on a Gatsby Gum Metal and Gold, finish is CA wet sanded with BLO to 3000 grit, then polished.
Then I turned a Busy Bee in Stylus Pen, and matching Busy Bee Stylus for the daughter...
And, cooked off a batch of pen blanks I'm dying, sanded those down and got them back in dye. Cleaned up my molds, so I can stick them back together. And, get ready to do a few more interesting casts.
Overall height is 9 inches, Diameter at widest point is 2 1/4" - Bored for 1 1/2" x 7 1/2" bud vase to set perfectly and discreetly flush! Finish is oh... rattle can and a half of Spar Varnish. Wet Sanded with BLO, now buffed out with Novus 2 polish, since it was a pain on the buffing wheel.
Then I attempted Barry's cholla pen, and that failed miserably! Did figure out how to dye cholla though!!
Moving on from there I tackled Trev's pen that I owe him for the California Pepper Wood...
Stabilized Spalted California Pepper on a Gatsby Gum Metal and Gold, finish is CA wet sanded with BLO to 3000 grit, then polished.
Then I turned a Busy Bee in Stylus Pen, and matching Busy Bee Stylus for the daughter...
And, cooked off a batch of pen blanks I'm dying, sanded those down and got them back in dye. Cleaned up my molds, so I can stick them back together. And, get ready to do a few more interesting casts.
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Nice stuff! All bowls?
Not sure yet. I've still got two ash, a pear, and a pistache in the round.
Got some gluing to do..... I have thousands of feet of random moldings and trim I got from a bankruptcy auction, mostly mahogany and cherry, so I decided I need to get busy and do something with some of it. gonna be a segmented vessel, each row of pieces will become a ring. I've made a lot of segmented turnings in the past, but it's been a while. all the work is in cutting and gluing, the turning is fun and goes quick....
Are you going to do a build thread? I would love to see that step by step! Tony
oooh nice love that calif pepper wood
I made a black walnut bowl for my neighbor...
Its been crappy rain outside so i couldn't get good pix outside. And I gave it to em already...
Its been crappy rain outside so i couldn't get good pix outside. And I gave it to em already...
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The bark in the first pict looks like a volcano showing the magma inside & heat moving the air above it!
