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Glenn Hodges
02-02-2005, 12:03 PM
This one is large for South Georgia 15 in. wide X 5 in. high, polymerized tung oil solution, then buffed. When this thing dried it was really hard, it took me a long time to sand some tear out, but I hope it was worth the trouble.
Michael Stafford
02-02-2005, 12:37 PM
Locust is one hard wood and Glenn in your capable hands it was definitely worth the trouble. :) As usual that is one beauty of a bowl. :)
Did you find that you had to sharpen your tools more than normal? :)
Bruce Shiverdecker
02-02-2005, 1:39 PM
I like the Honey Locust, too. That is a great bowl.
Honey Locust is plentiful around here, so I get to turn a lot of it.
Bruce
Alan Ryalls
02-02-2005, 2:23 PM
now thats nice glen
Jeff Sudmeier
02-02-2005, 3:27 PM
That looks good! The effort you put into it was well worth it.
Wolf Kiessling
02-02-2005, 5:59 PM
Wonderful bowl. As you said, it is really hard. I used to use it to carve stylized pieces, meaning minimal detail. I really liked it for that because of the finish it takes.
Great job.
Fred Chan
02-02-2005, 6:57 PM
Good looking bowl! Is that dark line under the lip a camera flash shadow or a accent stripe?
Glenn Hodges
02-03-2005, 11:14 AM
Thanks for the comments, yep turn and sharpen, turn and sharpen, and the stripe I burned on it with a wire. I wanted to make the lip really seperate from the body.
Mark Singer
02-03-2005, 11:17 AM
Beautiful!!!! Just great work!
Rick Prevett
02-03-2005, 11:32 AM
Glen, very nice bowl. I like the burned accent line very much.
Was all your sanding done by hand or did you powersand? On a hard wood like this, maybe a little mechanical help to cut down the sanding time?
Glenn Hodges
02-03-2005, 2:45 PM
Rick, I do most of my sanding with a drill and disk attached. It still took a long time with this thing because I had some tear out to deal with.
Steve Inniss
02-03-2005, 9:43 PM
Glenn,
Worth the trouble indeed. -Steve
Mark Cothren
02-04-2005, 11:01 AM
Looks great to me! Thanks for sharing the picture!
Mark
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