Kathy Marshall
07-18-2012, 8:56 PM
We have a little hf swap going on over at WTA and my swap partner Mike Cruz just received the piece I sent him (and I just received the beautiful piece he sent me, Thanks Mike, but I'll let him post that), so I decided it would be a good time to post it.
This was turned from a piece of BLM burl I picked up at San Jose (really nice wood to turn!). The way the blank was cut, left me with a nice big void, made for easy chip removal and I was able to go pretty darn thin since I could watch the cutter almost all the way to the bottom :D.
I 1st applied a light coat of brown dye (don't have any black) then sanded it back and added a nice coat of blue dye and lightly sanded that back. The yellow in the wood gave it almost a turquoise-ish look. I painted the inside and the edges with black gesso on the advice of John Keeton and I really like the look. Finished up with many coats of WTF, sanded back after about every 3 coats because i was getting ridges (too hot in the shop and it was drying too quickly), then finally beale buffed and waxed with renwax.
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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.
This was turned from a piece of BLM burl I picked up at San Jose (really nice wood to turn!). The way the blank was cut, left me with a nice big void, made for easy chip removal and I was able to go pretty darn thin since I could watch the cutter almost all the way to the bottom :D.
I 1st applied a light coat of brown dye (don't have any black) then sanded it back and added a nice coat of blue dye and lightly sanded that back. The yellow in the wood gave it almost a turquoise-ish look. I painted the inside and the edges with black gesso on the advice of John Keeton and I really like the look. Finished up with many coats of WTF, sanded back after about every 3 coats because i was getting ridges (too hot in the shop and it was drying too quickly), then finally beale buffed and waxed with renwax.
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Thanks for looking!
Comments and critiques are welcome.