Walnut platter with crushed malachite inlay

[Jeremy Leasure]

Finished this up today, really digging the contrast walnut has with malachite. I was going to taper the bottom and thin it out more but the hole left by the branchlet gets even larger below the surface and I like the way it was as is. So I left it.

12.5" C&C welcome.

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[Roger Chandler]

I like that contrast as well! Nice work!

[Steve Busey]

Great looking platter, Jeremy! Looks great against that natural greenery background, too!

[John Keeton]

Well done, and a beautiful piece of walnut, too!

[Baxter Smith]

Great contrast and great walnut make a great platter!

[Jason Ritchie]

What a beautiful platter! I love that green malachite fill. It adds a nice touch and contrasts nicely with the wood. What do you use to glue it in? CA? Epoxy?

[steven carter]

Very nice Jeremy. I too like the way the malachite works with the color of the walnut.

[Jim Burr]

Sweet platter Jeremy!!! The malachite always seem to bright to me...turquoise or red coral would work cool with this too! Did you fill and sand or fill and scrape? Stuff wears out an edge in a hurry!

[Jeremy Leasure]

Thanks for the comments :) I used CA as a binder.

Jim, I have 3 pounds of turquoise waiting for experimentation as well :) I sanded, I didn't think of trying to scrape. Is it any faster scraping and refreshing the edge? I'd be more than willing to do it if so, because sanding eats up even my ceramic heavy backing disks quickly.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Very nice! Love the color combination!

[Lori Kleinberg]

Very nice looking piece Jeremy.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful walnut and love the color combo.

[Steve Vaughan]

That is so nice! Love the colors and the ring with the infill in the knot works well!

[Melissa Messick]

Oh WoW beautiful!

[Pat Scott]

I like the color contrast as well. I would be afraid scraping would pull the stones out? For sanding you might want to look at Diamond sanding discs, they'll last a lot longer. The Sanding Glove sells them, they are pricy, but if you're going to sand a lot of stone it might be worthwhile. I've seen several demos on this subject, if you don't use diamond discs I would use the cheapest sanding discs you can buy since the stone wears out regular discs so quickly.

[Jim Burr]

I've done it both ways. You always lose a little of the filler regardless of the removal method. For those small pits, I just use the powder as the last fill. I have a Thompson scraper that is huge!! Fresh burr on that guy and it peels off smooth!

[Jeremy Leasure]

Never would have thought that would work, and probably wouldn't with my Pinnacle cheapo scrapers. Good excuse to add another brick on the "place another order from Doug Thompson" side of the teeter totter.

[Doug Reesor]

That is a really cool piece. I like the color contrast and the delicacy of the inlay. It is very balanced. The inlay really compliments the wood.

Well Dine!