olsenla
Member
Hi folks,
I really liked the Maglites that Rick (rherrell) had posted a while back. I really wanted to make some for gifts and he had posted a nice tutorial on how to make them. Alas, I didn't have the right equipment, so I ordered and turned a couple of PSI pen lights to see if that would scratch that itch. No such luck!! So a metal lathe and a bunch of tooling later, this is my attempt at doing them. The blue is the first one and is curly maple from BryanJon dyed with food coloring and CA finish. The black is the second one and is Amboyna burl that I had stabilized a few years ago. It is also finished with CA. Thanks Rick for the tutorial and thanks to all you people who have metal lathes and post tips for using them. I have picked up quite a bit just reading the posts even though they didn't directly apply to what I was doing at the time. These were a lot of fun.
Thanks for looking,
Larry
I really liked the Maglites that Rick (rherrell) had posted a while back. I really wanted to make some for gifts and he had posted a nice tutorial on how to make them. Alas, I didn't have the right equipment, so I ordered and turned a couple of PSI pen lights to see if that would scratch that itch. No such luck!! So a metal lathe and a bunch of tooling later, this is my attempt at doing them. The blue is the first one and is curly maple from BryanJon dyed with food coloring and CA finish. The black is the second one and is Amboyna burl that I had stabilized a few years ago. It is also finished with CA. Thanks Rick for the tutorial and thanks to all you people who have metal lathes and post tips for using them. I have picked up quite a bit just reading the posts even though they didn't directly apply to what I was doing at the time. These were a lot of fun.
Thanks for looking,
Larry