I turned this from the 'scrap' piece off the back side of a long crotch piece. Turns out the scrap was WAY prettier than the feather crotch! I haven't been turning but for a year, but I've never seen figure like this in a piece of wood. Simply amazing. The dye really makes the grain pop and it looks almost like stone or maybe granite. I finished it with lacquer and buffed it out with the Beall buff wheels. C&C appreciated.
My one disappointment in the piece is that the chatoyance is very muted. When the lacquer was wet the grain looked wonderfully deep and even 3D, but dry and buffed to a shine it looks flat. Almost no chatoyance at all. I love the result, but I would have preferred to have the depth show up like it did when it was wet. What would be a better finish or method to coax out the chatoyance for future pieces?
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