Bill Grumbine
11-15-2006, 4:08 PM
Greetings all
Sometimes procrastination helps, and sometimes you wonder if you should have just put it off a little longer. This is a piece of maple burl that got left out in the weather by accident. It is beautiful stuff, but boy was it a challenge to cut, and I am not sure I like the final product. I had to soak it real good with Minwax Wood Hardener to get it to cut well, and hollowing, while easy, left a very rough surface on the inside. I usually don't worry too much about that, but it seems that more and more people think that they should be sanding the insides of hollow forms! :eek: Let's hope that customers don't start to think that way!
It is relatively easy to see inside when you look through the hole where the bark inclusion used to be (although not in the picture). It is rough rough rough, but there is not much I am going to do about it. Rough it is, and rough it is going to stay. This piece is fragile and I am not going to booger it all up with a sanding disk. I will just have to find a customer who doesn't know about the requirement to sand the insides. It is finished with Bush Oil, and I am trying to figure out what else might help it. There is some MWH from the soak that is making some of the points on the NE shiny, but I am not sure how to either buff them down or bring up the shine on the rest of the piece. Suggestions anyone?
Thanks for taking a look.
Sometimes procrastination helps, and sometimes you wonder if you should have just put it off a little longer. This is a piece of maple burl that got left out in the weather by accident. It is beautiful stuff, but boy was it a challenge to cut, and I am not sure I like the final product. I had to soak it real good with Minwax Wood Hardener to get it to cut well, and hollowing, while easy, left a very rough surface on the inside. I usually don't worry too much about that, but it seems that more and more people think that they should be sanding the insides of hollow forms! :eek: Let's hope that customers don't start to think that way!
It is relatively easy to see inside when you look through the hole where the bark inclusion used to be (although not in the picture). It is rough rough rough, but there is not much I am going to do about it. Rough it is, and rough it is going to stay. This piece is fragile and I am not going to booger it all up with a sanding disk. I will just have to find a customer who doesn't know about the requirement to sand the insides. It is finished with Bush Oil, and I am trying to figure out what else might help it. There is some MWH from the soak that is making some of the points on the NE shiny, but I am not sure how to either buff them down or bring up the shine on the rest of the piece. Suggestions anyone?
Thanks for taking a look.