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Aaron Craven
10-20-2015, 11:26 PM
So thanks to a great friend, I was gifted with a couple of walnut blanks. These are the first pieces of walnut I've ever had the opportunity to work with and I was floored by the figuring and chatoyancy in this wood. The finish is a coat of walnut oil (allowed to cure for a couple of days) topped with wipe-on polyurethane. I did not do anything to seal the pores in the wood, and I'm actually glad I didn't. It's not a mirror finish, but I rather like the surface grain.
I was very excited about this one, so I thought I'd share.
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Brad Barnhart
10-20-2015, 11:46 PM
Wow!!! Awesome looking walnut bowl, Aaron!!! Good job!!!:)
Prashun Patel
10-21-2015, 10:10 AM
that's beautiful. I like the setting too!
Dave Carey
10-21-2015, 10:22 AM
Nice! You've also got a nice friend.
Aaron Craven
10-21-2015, 11:55 AM
Nice! You've also got a nice friend.
Oh, very much so! He called me up one day and told me he was cleaning out his shop if I wanted some free wood...
Well, yeah! Of course I want free wood!
He loaded up my trunk with bowl blanks (cherry, maple, spalted oak, a couple of walnut, and a bunch of other stuff)... then told me to let him know if I ran out! So... yeah... nice doesn't begin to cover it.
Curtis Myers
10-21-2015, 4:00 PM
Nice job be it your 1st or 50th.
Allan Ferguson
10-21-2015, 4:13 PM
Very pretty. Allan
Thomas Canfield
10-21-2015, 9:30 PM
Nice work. It looks like you are hooked.
Aaron Craven
10-21-2015, 10:35 PM
Nice work. It looks like you are hooked.
Hah! Yes. The vortex has me firmly in its grasp!
Robert Marshall
10-22-2015, 8:14 AM
"Chatoyancy" -- learn a new word every day! Cats-eye. Had to look it up.
Nice word. Nice bowl. Thanks!
Aaron Craven
10-22-2015, 3:35 PM
"Chatoyancy" -- learn a new word every day! Cats-eye. Had to look it up.
Nice word. Nice bowl. Thanks!
I forget where I picked up that word, but it is very fitting for the effect. I wish there was a way to show it in photos, but since it really depends on moving the bowl, I suppose the only way to really show it would be a video.
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