Leo Van Der Loo
04-04-2015, 3:40 PM
I rough turned this piece of American crotch wood Elm in May 2006, a part of a very large White Elm that had succumbed to the Elm disease, I was hoping against knowing better that it would not change shape too much, anyway I was proven right that is was going to distort, and boy did it ever.
So not knowing what I really should do with it, it sat and sat and then a couple years ago it got a split init as well, darn :rolleyes:, so it sat some more, but I did like that feather and the eyes in the crotch, what to do what to do :confused:.
So a couple months ago I decided to smooth the top surface and sanded it, not easy with this severe warp in it, wiped on some Tung oil and let it harden then as I was going to add some more finish I noted that I hadn’t gotten all the tool marks out, we then had a couple of weeks out of the bitter cold here and went to Cuba, Nice, back again and by then the finish was hard enough to be able to sand it all off again :eek:.
After that I added two coats of Polymerized finish to the top and one to the bottom, also on the bottom side I left the tenon as by then, I had decided it was going to be a wallhanging :rolleyes:.
So sought a fitting hose clamp and twisted a keyring in/on it and had a try, OK that worked, now the split had to be made to stay where it was, easier said than done, as I had filled the split earlier with a coffee ground and dark wood dust mixture, the platter had shifted a bit and the two sides of the split where not even anymore, so I had sanded that down before all the finishing work.
So by now I thought that the use of a bunch of staples would be a good idea to keep things in check, (time will tell if I was right or not ;)) so made a bunch of staples and drilled the real small holes and drove the staples in, added a bit of CA to all that and hung the piece on the wall where LOML Anny liked it to go.
I made some pictures, kind of hard to do such a large piece in my photo booth, and also made one where it is hanging on the wall :).
Comments welcome as always :D
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So not knowing what I really should do with it, it sat and sat and then a couple years ago it got a split init as well, darn :rolleyes:, so it sat some more, but I did like that feather and the eyes in the crotch, what to do what to do :confused:.
So a couple months ago I decided to smooth the top surface and sanded it, not easy with this severe warp in it, wiped on some Tung oil and let it harden then as I was going to add some more finish I noted that I hadn’t gotten all the tool marks out, we then had a couple of weeks out of the bitter cold here and went to Cuba, Nice, back again and by then the finish was hard enough to be able to sand it all off again :eek:.
After that I added two coats of Polymerized finish to the top and one to the bottom, also on the bottom side I left the tenon as by then, I had decided it was going to be a wallhanging :rolleyes:.
So sought a fitting hose clamp and twisted a keyring in/on it and had a try, OK that worked, now the split had to be made to stay where it was, easier said than done, as I had filled the split earlier with a coffee ground and dark wood dust mixture, the platter had shifted a bit and the two sides of the split where not even anymore, so I had sanded that down before all the finishing work.
So by now I thought that the use of a bunch of staples would be a good idea to keep things in check, (time will tell if I was right or not ;)) so made a bunch of staples and drilled the real small holes and drove the staples in, added a bit of CA to all that and hung the piece on the wall where LOML Anny liked it to go.
I made some pictures, kind of hard to do such a large piece in my photo booth, and also made one where it is hanging on the wall :).
Comments welcome as always :D
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