First Cheese platter

[Ron Hipp]

Curt, Thanks for the advise. This is a first cheese platter for me 8 3/4 X 5/8" wood is Popular with a Mineral oil finish. Comments are welcome..

[Bernie Weishapl]

Ron looks mighty fine to me. I did several like those but put a marble insert in the middle to cut the cheese on. Well done.

[Pete Jordan]

Ron,

Great job on some wild wood!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Good looking platter Ron! Really like the grain pattern!

[Tony Zona]

Very nice. I like. Get's me interested in doing some turning, and I just might have a little walnut and poplar to cut into.

[Tom Sherman]

Very nice platter Ron.

[Alex Elias]

It looks very nice. Congrats. By the way what kind of of is the popular you are refering to. Is that a new kind :)

[Skip Spaulding]

Very nice , real pretty wood.

[Ed Scolforo]

Ron, nice platter and crazy wood. Ken, don't look at the photo on the right, your vertigo will return!

[Ron Hipp]

Alex, I was impressed by Curt Fuller's write up on platters being turned from 3/4 inch stock so I went to Lowe's and I purchased a 1X12" by 10' piece of popular off the shelf. Being a new turner and not wanting to mess up a good piece of wood for a first try on a new project. I bought this cheap popular before using expensive woods. So as an answer to your question The popular came from Lowe's . Popular is normally fairly plain however this piece stood out from all the other pieces with all the grain. The LOML love's wood grain so she snatched this one as soon as I put the oil on it test piece or not. :o

Ed, just finishing up a sewing thread caddy and a pedestal cake platter for the LOML using more of the same wood with three coats of Min wax antique finish and carnuba wax. The gloss finish makes it eaiser on the eye.:cool: