Miniature?

[Ben Gastfriend]

I had some of this extremely expensive wood laying around as cutoffs from another project, so I glued them together and made this (a miniature?) The dime's there for scale (duh), it's about 1 1/4" tall and 1 1/2" wide. I used a really tiny skew chisel made out of a nail (somebody here gave me that tip and I can't remember who, but thank you) and it worked great.

Expensive dyed B/E burl, sanded to 600, EEE, and Minwax Wipe on Poly, buffed.

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[curtis rosche]

nice whats the green and whats the purple? what are all the woods

[Keith Burns]

Cool Ben !! Nice form !

[Jim Becker]

Purdy, Ben!! And probably a little less cleanup afterward, too... :D (Nice work!)

[Steve Schlumpf]

Ben - that's very nice! Lots of color! Amazing what you can turn once you start thinking - what if? Nice work - keep it up!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Awful pretty Ben. Amazing what you can do on a lathe.

[Ben Gastfriend]

nice whats the green and whats the purple? what are all the woods

They're all buckeye burl, just dyed different colors, except for the base, which is oak.

[Tom Sherman]

Pretty cool Ben, from a nail go figure.

[Dennis Peacock]

Awesome Ben!!!!!!!!!!!

I like it and the form is very well done IMHO. :D

[GLENN THOMAS]

Thats awsome. I wonder if it would be possible to do a segmented piece that small?

[Paul Engle]

Ha, Ben looks like ya nailed it alrighty.....:eek:;) Nice work for sure. just could not resist......:D:D:D