Kathy Marshall
04-10-2011, 11:48 PM
It's been a busy weekend! Cold, rainy, wet day on Saturday, perfect weather for spending time in the shop (although sunny and warm works too :D ).
Decided to start the day off with a HF from an arborvitae log.
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It's about 5" x 4 1/2" with just a coat of DO so far. I have to say this stuff cuts very nice, it's fairly soft but there was never any tearout. It cut so cleanly that I wouldn't have needed to sand except for some tool marks I left.
When I finished that one, I was going to start on a little mesquite HF, but there was still a pretty good sized chunk of waste wood left on the faceplate (as you can see it the 1st pick) and it would have been a waste to toss it, so I turned a little ring bowl.
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Finished the ring bowl then decided I better work on some finishing before I started the mesquite HF. I had about 16 pieces in various stages of finish on the workbench :eek: . Added coats of finish to some, took some steel wool to others, then finally started on the mesquite, all I had time for was to rough out a blank and get the center drilled, then stopped for the night.
Back in the shop Sunday morning and finished up the mesquite (will post picks when the finish is done), then back to the finish work.
Here are a few that got to the buffing wheel.
Spalted Birch. These are from the same log, but were turned in different orientations. The one on the left was turned end grain (spindle orientation). Don't know that I'm wild about the form, but after cleaning up some punk and cracks I was left with a narrow top, so this is what I came up with. The piece on the left was turned face grain and I like this form much better, I also think it shows the spalting better. Finish is DO and WOP, then Beale buffed and Ren wax.
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Olive. The one on the left is the 1st piece I turned from the load of olive I picked up. Wanted to do something quick just to see how the grain looked, so there's not much form to it. They're both finished with DO and WOP, then buffed and Ren wax. The one on the right was soaked in DO for 24 hours, then left in a ziplock bag for about a week which gave it a darker look. The pic doesn't show it very well, but it's kind of a grayish-brown, where the one on the left is lighter. The colors are a little truer in the 2nd pic.
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I've also got a pic of the Pistachio HF finished , which I'll post in a reply with the original to show the color change from using the ziplock bag method.
Decided to start the day off with a HF from an arborvitae log.
191080 191081
It's about 5" x 4 1/2" with just a coat of DO so far. I have to say this stuff cuts very nice, it's fairly soft but there was never any tearout. It cut so cleanly that I wouldn't have needed to sand except for some tool marks I left.
When I finished that one, I was going to start on a little mesquite HF, but there was still a pretty good sized chunk of waste wood left on the faceplate (as you can see it the 1st pick) and it would have been a waste to toss it, so I turned a little ring bowl.
191079
Finished the ring bowl then decided I better work on some finishing before I started the mesquite HF. I had about 16 pieces in various stages of finish on the workbench :eek: . Added coats of finish to some, took some steel wool to others, then finally started on the mesquite, all I had time for was to rough out a blank and get the center drilled, then stopped for the night.
Back in the shop Sunday morning and finished up the mesquite (will post picks when the finish is done), then back to the finish work.
Here are a few that got to the buffing wheel.
Spalted Birch. These are from the same log, but were turned in different orientations. The one on the left was turned end grain (spindle orientation). Don't know that I'm wild about the form, but after cleaning up some punk and cracks I was left with a narrow top, so this is what I came up with. The piece on the left was turned face grain and I like this form much better, I also think it shows the spalting better. Finish is DO and WOP, then Beale buffed and Ren wax.
191088
Olive. The one on the left is the 1st piece I turned from the load of olive I picked up. Wanted to do something quick just to see how the grain looked, so there's not much form to it. They're both finished with DO and WOP, then buffed and Ren wax. The one on the right was soaked in DO for 24 hours, then left in a ziplock bag for about a week which gave it a darker look. The pic doesn't show it very well, but it's kind of a grayish-brown, where the one on the left is lighter. The colors are a little truer in the 2nd pic.
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I've also got a pic of the Pistachio HF finished , which I'll post in a reply with the original to show the color change from using the ziplock bag method.