Jim in Oakville
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Have you ever put on an old pair of pants and found some unexpected money in the pocket, you know the feeling……well I had that happen to me this weekend in a way.[:0]
I bought some curly koa about 4 years ago on EBay. I had the blanks in my shop in a cardboard box I have been tripping over now all this time. This weekend I decided to turn a few of them on a Gentleman’s pen kit. Well I guess I found some treasure I had forgotten about.
These are natural, no stabilization, turned with a skew, no sanding, burnished only with the koa shavings.
The top coat is two sprayed lacquer coats that were then finish
With a plastic scratch remover paste, that is it!
The chatoyance of the curl in the wood is really hard to capture in these pictures, but as you roll the pen about in the light it catches the curl and your eyes follow the moving figure.
My thanks to Lance, who mentioned using lacquer the other day as a finish coat ... a light bulb went off in my head and I knew in an instant that I would try it on this koa...Thanks Lance!
I am very pleased with these results.[^]
So what treasures do you have in your shop that you have forgotten? I have 30 more of these blanks….I see a few more in the near future.
I bought some curly koa about 4 years ago on EBay. I had the blanks in my shop in a cardboard box I have been tripping over now all this time. This weekend I decided to turn a few of them on a Gentleman’s pen kit. Well I guess I found some treasure I had forgotten about.
These are natural, no stabilization, turned with a skew, no sanding, burnished only with the koa shavings.
The top coat is two sprayed lacquer coats that were then finish
With a plastic scratch remover paste, that is it!
The chatoyance of the curl in the wood is really hard to capture in these pictures, but as you roll the pen about in the light it catches the curl and your eyes follow the moving figure.
My thanks to Lance, who mentioned using lacquer the other day as a finish coat ... a light bulb went off in my head and I knew in an instant that I would try it on this koa...Thanks Lance!
I am very pleased with these results.[^]
So what treasures do you have in your shop that you have forgotten? I have 30 more of these blanks….I see a few more in the near future.