George Overpeck
03-03-2011, 12:55 AM
Hey all - I made this thing and I'm not sure what to do with it. I wanted to try the half elmers/half water trick and my only piece of punky wood was quite large. I have a full tree of it and some of the color in more distant sections is pretty amazing, and this was my most disposable piece since the rest was going to be reserved for elmers/birch masterpieces.
I turned the profile, soaked it, dried it for 2 days and when I did my second pass I didn't have any ability to make the punky wood cut right. But the wood surrounding it was cutting pretty nicely and since it was so light and easy to cut I decided to hollow it. A piece of the shoulder where a branch had rotted out opened to make the big hole which was convenient for getting shavings out so the time commitment was a little less also and I ended up making it fairly thin since I could see inside well.
a few questions - should I have soaked it longer? Dried it longer? Hollowed it and soaked it from inside? Does this method work on wet wood or does it need to be dry? It occurred to me that maybe one could saturate it with DNA to force the moisture out and then do the glue soaking and get a better penetration. Thoughts?
On the form - would you knock the punky walls out and make it a open hollow form? Or use something (fingernail would work fine) to accentuate and even the roughness in the punky section? Use a superglossy finish on the good wood and blowtorch on the bad wood? Saturate with CA and sand? Start turning pens?
thanks for looking, thanks for ideas - George
I turned the profile, soaked it, dried it for 2 days and when I did my second pass I didn't have any ability to make the punky wood cut right. But the wood surrounding it was cutting pretty nicely and since it was so light and easy to cut I decided to hollow it. A piece of the shoulder where a branch had rotted out opened to make the big hole which was convenient for getting shavings out so the time commitment was a little less also and I ended up making it fairly thin since I could see inside well.
a few questions - should I have soaked it longer? Dried it longer? Hollowed it and soaked it from inside? Does this method work on wet wood or does it need to be dry? It occurred to me that maybe one could saturate it with DNA to force the moisture out and then do the glue soaking and get a better penetration. Thoughts?
On the form - would you knock the punky walls out and make it a open hollow form? Or use something (fingernail would work fine) to accentuate and even the roughness in the punky section? Use a superglossy finish on the good wood and blowtorch on the bad wood? Saturate with CA and sand? Start turning pens?
thanks for looking, thanks for ideas - George