Sure---sticks to wet or dry endgrain. used it for dozens of log section vase blanks to 125 #'s. Outside and hollowing (using a stabilizer wheel) and finishing as well. Use plenty of glue and a...
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Sure---sticks to wet or dry endgrain. used it for dozens of log section vase blanks to 125 #'s. Outside and hollowing (using a stabilizer wheel) and finishing as well. Use plenty of glue and a...
To reverse the piece use a glueblock and thick CA glue--it holds very well on wet wood.
Been spraying lacquer for 60 years on cars, bowls ect. At this point in finishing you will have orange peel period. a fact. Now knock it down by wet sanding with 440 SP or steel wool. Obtain some...
The rolls of duck tape faced with aluminum foil work great---the resin does not dissolve the tape glue like most tapes.
Good time to resharpen and hone the old gouge, small and pointy of course.
Beautiful mineral stained poplar. !0 years ago I found a huge supply on E-Bay. The guy could hardly give it away--after buying 15 bowl blanks I stupidly suggested he finish out a piece to put on...
Find a car finishing products store. Or a good car parts store. Obtain some high quality liquid compounds in various grits and go up the grits like on sand-paper use. follow with a good softened...
Very pretty for sure. I often dye pieces with thinned black first, sand off most and come back with 1 or 2 different colors. Try it.
Aspen can be turned easily with the above advice. Also I dry the stuff in the log for a long time--being a very soft weak wood it will hardly crack when slowly air dried with the bark on. Makes...
One problem with linseed and danish oils is that they will darken with time, a lot. Tung oils are superior in this and durability as well. Not as easy and fast but the basis of all oil bases marine...
I stumbled upon the BF grind decades ago (not alone I'm sure) and helped spread the word before there was a SC. I grind to 70-75 deg grind and maybe pass a diamond card on that too. You can easily...
Believe it or not but 2 coats of Pre-cat lac., over SS for pores, will give the finish of 8-10 coats of regular lacquer. Requires a slow retardarding thinner but is several times as tough as regular...
For heavily spalted wood(usually the prettiest) try this. Mix clear epoxy or FG resin with acetone to an almost watery viscosity. Pour in an appropiate amount along with your roughed out piece,...
After doing bowls and urns for 30 years i have observed this. Any finish you like is great. A pore free film finish will sell best. Gloss is ok--my fave is to use: SS, high gloss pre-cat. Mohawk...
Crazy but you can mount your chuck on the headstock and chuck up your #3 taper in it-with care- with the blank screwed onto it for turning. After drilling and threading the blank of course. Another...
A regular procedure around here--let it cure a day or two first.
Like most artists out west I simply sign name or initials with a pen--very casually.
I have used several types of fastening blanks to turn. My fav. is to put a single screw in the chuck--drill a pilot hole in the 1"+ hardwood glueblock--screw it on the SScrew--turn flat and...
The steel in spindles and chucks is extremely tough and hard steel. I doubt if you can cross thread one without super effort and tools--and it would show.
After finishing wood for 6 decades--of all kinds of finish--I can hardly think of a worse use of wax on a finish.. Nothing sticks to it--used as a release agent in any type of fiberglass work or...
1&1/4" x 8" threads are the "almost" standard thread on wood lathe's these days, but not universal in the machining world. There are other thread shapes out there. I have seen this problem years...
The only Deft I have used is labeled--brushing lacquer? Any semi-gloss lac. is softer than gloss--an additive that be bought and added. Rattlecan lac. if by definition very thin on solids to allow...
Dyas's info is spot on--very good info on using lacquer--have sprayed a drum of the stuff over the years--one addition though, Sandind sealer come in many different qualities--I use Mohawk's heavy...
Would love to have some of any size---any ideas??
That,s a biggun--as a grunt forester I have cut several in the 12-13" dia. size. Really bad to crack as every hard and finegrain wood is. Doing mostly vases/urns I turn mostly spindle wise. After...