Curly maple w/ crushed turquoise inlay rim

[Nathan Hawkes]

This is a recent one of mine, Curly silver maple (I thought it was silver anyway, could be sugar maple) with a shallow turquoise inlay on the rim. Turquoise is a pain to crush with a mortar & pestle. Pretty hard! Finish is Minwax Antique Oil. I'm new to photography. Sorry bout the lame pics. Its about 13" by 4" tall.

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[robert hainstock]

Very nice work Nathan. I love the understated foot. You are probably right about it being silver maple. Sugar maple doesn't display the dark grsin variations seen your piece.
Bob

[Dave Stoler]

Nice form and finish...I,ll bet with those outside curves it feels good in the hand.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nathan - beautiful bowl! Love all the curl! Great colors, form and finish! I do like the inlay! Very nice work!

[Dewey Torres]

You can buy the turquoise already crushed for cheap here:

http://stores.ebay.com/GILMER-ROCK-SHOP

[Steve Cook]

Beautiful work, the curl is magnificent and the turquoise band really pops. What size crush did you use for the turquoise or is it a blended crush?

[Nathan Hawkes]

Thanks folks! I don't know how to answer about the size; I just kinda tapped away until it looked about right. I suppose the pieces were about 1/32" -1/16" on average, down to powder in size. I put down a bead of thick CA glue and put in big pieces, then filled it in with smaller pieces and med. glue. I bought the pieces from a jeweler's cutoff supply on Ebay.

[Nathan Hawkes]

You can buy the turquoise already crushed for cheap here:

http://stores.ebay.com/GILMER-ROCK-SHOP


Thanks for the link. If i'd known about this site, I could've saved hours of tap tap tapping away.....turquoise is pretty hard compared to other inlay stones.

[Jarrod McGehee]

Nathan, great bowl the figure is nice and I like the inlay. But have you done an inlay with mixing the material with epoxy and inlaying it? I was told about that way also and I'll try that on my table most likely. I'll put info on how it goes.

[Nathan Hawkes]

I haven't tried that yet. I think that would work well with voids in a bowl, or with very fine inlay material to mix with the epoxy and just drip into a crack. If the turquoise had been finer, I think that might work very well.

[Allen Neighbors]

Nothing wrong with this one!!

For Turquoise: Colbaugh Processing (928)565-4650
They sell floor chips @ $15/lb. That's unstablized turquoise, so it's easier to crush.
They take checks or credit cards with a $50 minimum. They ship U.P.S.

Ask for Josh Colbaugh, he'll know what you want. "Floor sweepings"

You can crush it in a pipe with a cap, into which you insert the chunks of turquoise, then use another, smaller, pipe with cap, which you insert on top of the turquoise. Just beat the tar out of the turquoise with the inner pipe. ;)

Or you can make a crusher like this one: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=94298

Hope this helps someone. :)

[Don Carter]

Wow Nathan! I love this one. The form and the color really caught me eye. Great work. Congratulations!

All the best.

Don

[Andrew Derhammer]

Arizona silhouette carries different types and sizes of crushed stone.

[Bernie Weishapl]

The bowl is a beauty. Nice form and finish.

[David Christopher]

Nathan, that is a very nice bowl....great job

[Jim Kountz]

Thats one slick looking bowl, I love the inlay and the overall form too!!

[steven carter]

Great looking bowl! The turquois really sets it off, love the curl in the wood, outstanding!

Steve