triw51
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FOCSTPU (Found on curb side in trash pick up) Salt Cellar. While my daughter drove me to airport last year after I visited her family in Orange Fla., I saw this burl on top of some cut up wood waiting to be picked up and hauled off. I had her turn around and went back and picked it up and put it in my suitcase already full of splatted sycamore.
Well after a year of setting around and me trying to figure what I would do with it, how I would chuck it up etc. It is about 5.5 inches in diam.
I think the wood is oak burl and had a nice earthy smell as I turn it. The top is the foot of a wine glass I cut off when making wooden stems for the glasses. (note: Easy to cut a wine glass stem is to use an angle grinder with a thin metal cutting blade, just start the cut and the foot separates clean and easy). The nob is from a piece of wood given me by a friend not sure what it is but I included a piece in the picture.
The inside I finished with 4 layers of CA and the out side is hand rubbed orange oil/wax mixture.
Question after I finished my wife commented that the white spots on the bark are distracting. I think the white spots are moss that was on the wood so left it on. Do you think it distracts from the piece?
C&C and questions are welcome
Well after a year of setting around and me trying to figure what I would do with it, how I would chuck it up etc. It is about 5.5 inches in diam.
I think the wood is oak burl and had a nice earthy smell as I turn it. The top is the foot of a wine glass I cut off when making wooden stems for the glasses. (note: Easy to cut a wine glass stem is to use an angle grinder with a thin metal cutting blade, just start the cut and the foot separates clean and easy). The nob is from a piece of wood given me by a friend not sure what it is but I included a piece in the picture.
The inside I finished with 4 layers of CA and the out side is hand rubbed orange oil/wax mixture.
Question after I finished my wife commented that the white spots on the bark are distracting. I think the white spots are moss that was on the wood so left it on. Do you think it distracts from the piece?
C&C and questions are welcome