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Just outstanding I love working with raw wood , sadly being disabled at the moment I have to make do with pallet wood lol .. fantastic creative work and I just love the chess board
Absolutely beautiful!@Mick p @pat from Marck thank you guys, Mick I'm absolutely obsessed, if I'm not turning wood I'm watching YouTube for ideas and inspiration, I've got a notepad dedicated to sketches and drawings of ideas.
Got this morning off work so decided to spend it in the makerspace, i decided to leave it "open" so after spending hours picking the bark and soft bits out of the burl I then rounded it off a little more and sanded it to 500g then liberally brushed in linseed oil and allowed it to soak in for 20-30 minutes before putting a cardboard box over it and turning it on to spin off the excess oil, I'm really happy with how it turned out, still no idea what the wood is but I don't think it really matters with this piece
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This is all I've mAde lately, an office in our space and a 4 hour work bench! Complete with a torn out kitchen cabinet. And a record vice I found at dump Walmart! ( they have a shack at the dump where people put stuff that is too good for garbage) I think someone died and they send dads tools to dump as they could have sold vice for $250.00 easily. Oh and I threw in a neighbours garage foundation. I have to get to my lathe, it's been tooooo long! Today I get to pile 100 dump truck loads of top soil. Not my favourite job!
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Stigmorgan
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Thanks Glen, I have few other burl pieces but they are a little awkward to find a use for as they are more like little growth along a stick rather than single lumps, they'd be ideal for resin work but resin isn't something I'm in a position to start yet.
Stigmorgan
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So a colleague is leaving and I was asked if I could turn something as a leaving gift for him, so I decided to use the opportunity to do somethi g I've wanted to try for a long time now, a captured ring goblet, I'm super happy with the goblet, the ring is not perfect but considering I only had my bowl gouge, skew and narrow parting tool it's pretty good. Used a piece of the red conifer I got from my arborist and sanded it to 500G, sanding the ring was not fun.
you are getting better by the day. !
So you can drink, and play with your ring at the same time
Stigmorgan
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I did use a food safe finishSo you can drink, and play with your ring at the same time
unless splinters are your thingNo splinters, I hope!
Do you know I think your getting good at this.... but then it's only skill and practice, maybe a bit of hard work.
Large raised planter made from 100 plus year old studding and pallet boards. mortise and tenon construction with rebates for cladding
Next I used a blowtorch to yakisugi it i do this with all outside items it provides insect and water repellant properties
Next it was oiled on outside
The sides on inside lined with visqueen then a permeable landscape fabric
Next I used a blowtorch to yakisugi it i do this with all outside items it provides insect and water repellant properties
Next it was oiled on outside
The sides on inside lined with visqueen then a permeable landscape fabric
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Which oil did you use, out of interest ?. Linseed or Tung or what.
Linseed
Stigmorgan
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Stigmorgan
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2 more hazel bud vases finished in oil and an oak pencil pot/desk tidy finished with wax, getting to the bottom of the inside was a complete pain, it's not flat but its good enough, will be a gift for our academy new CEO who starts soon.
So the chap next door said "I have some timbers from my Victorian house and the wood is like nothing you can buy these days. It's 160 years old and good as the day it was installed. Can you use a lump for anything?" So I thought what can you make with a bit of 4 x 2? It smelt delightful whilst turning it.
It's a Friday, and nearly beer o'clock so perfectly acceptable!Not sure I should admit this, but @rob1693 is it bad that the first thing I saw was the Jagermeister
