Kathy Marshall
11-04-2011, 10:38 PM
African Sumac is one of the woods that continues to amaze me with the changes it can go through.
This is a piece I turned back around May or so and only just got the final finish on it. I would give it a coat of WOP and then it would sit on the workbench, lost among all the other half finished pieces until I noticed it again and added another coat of WOP. Well I finally added the final coat. I also let it sit in the sun not long after turning it, and where it was sitting on the workbench, it got additional sunlight as it was sitting beneath the skylight (open vent).
The first pics are of it after turning and with the first coat of WOP. The others were taken tonight and show just how much the color has changed. There is absolutely no dye or other coloring on this piece, it is all the effect of sunlight on sumac.
The lid will be going, there's been a little too much movement and it will barely sit on the lip (you can see in the 2nd set that it sits a little catywampus).
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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
This is a piece I turned back around May or so and only just got the final finish on it. I would give it a coat of WOP and then it would sit on the workbench, lost among all the other half finished pieces until I noticed it again and added another coat of WOP. Well I finally added the final coat. I also let it sit in the sun not long after turning it, and where it was sitting on the workbench, it got additional sunlight as it was sitting beneath the skylight (open vent).
The first pics are of it after turning and with the first coat of WOP. The others were taken tonight and show just how much the color has changed. There is absolutely no dye or other coloring on this piece, it is all the effect of sunlight on sumac.
The lid will be going, there's been a little too much movement and it will barely sit on the lip (you can see in the 2nd set that it sits a little catywampus).
211995211994
211993 211992
Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.