Kathy Marshall
10-03-2011, 1:31 AM
I posted this plate a few weeks ago after it came off the lathe. It had a lot of punky areas and rotten wood, but being a little stubborn and against good advice, I went ahead and cleaned it up and filled the voids (almost 1/2 of the bottom was gone), turned it a little thinner, sanded and finished. Since I turned off the tenon the 1st time, I glued a waste block on the base, then chucked it in my cole jaws to turn a tenon from the waste block, then rechucked it in my bowl jaws to re-turn the inside, then back to the cole jaws to finish turn the outside and turn off the was block.
About 10" x 1 1/4" (didn't measure) voids filled with epoxy mixed with black and gold metallic flakes, finished with DO, a coat of shellac, about 6 coats of WOP then buffed and Ren wax.
It's far from perfect, but I learned a few things so in my mind it was a success. This was by far the largest epoxy fill job I've done, and with that much epoxy, it's really important to get the mix of epoxy and hardner just right, and a little bit of the gold flakes go a long, long way!
Here's a before pic (all of the lighter colored wood was basically rotten and was removed in the cleanup)
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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
About 10" x 1 1/4" (didn't measure) voids filled with epoxy mixed with black and gold metallic flakes, finished with DO, a coat of shellac, about 6 coats of WOP then buffed and Ren wax.
It's far from perfect, but I learned a few things so in my mind it was a success. This was by far the largest epoxy fill job I've done, and with that much epoxy, it's really important to get the mix of epoxy and hardner just right, and a little bit of the gold flakes go a long, long way!
Here's a before pic (all of the lighter colored wood was basically rotten and was removed in the cleanup)
209021
209018209020209019
Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.