Textured Birch Bowl
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SDB777
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Happen to have a photo showing the inside?
Been wondering if I'd be to crazy to go drop a few Red Birch(Betula occidentalis), they seem to grow close to streams{not a big fan of snakes and I'd bet good cash they will be a few around the water}.
Was this 'texturing' a spray can texture? Brushed on? Inquiring minds.....
Scott (pretty neat on the outside) B
Been wondering if I'd be to crazy to go drop a few Red Birch(Betula occidentalis), they seem to grow close to streams{not a big fan of snakes and I'd bet good cash they will be a few around the water}.
Was this 'texturing' a spray can texture? Brushed on? Inquiring minds.....
Scott (pretty neat on the outside) B
Thanks all,
It is about 2 1/2" (6 cm) tall
All of the colors are Golden Acrylics.
The inside is a yellow at the bottom to red at the rim fade using transparent acrylic airbrush colors so you can see the underlying wood patterns.
In retrospect, I think I should have applied a hint of shading grey at the rim to give it more visual impact.
The outside is Golden Carbon Black opaque acrylic thinned with Transparent Extender.
I almost always try to ensure that some major portion of the woodturning is either natural wood, or use transparent acrylics / dyes. I want it to be clear that the piece really is wood, even if it has been vividly colored.
The texturing is done with a rotary tool, I use an Optima micromotor, but a Dremel would work too. I used a cheap diamond cutoff wheel from Harbor Freight in the tool to do the texturing, just lightly scoring the surface in intersecting arcs. I used a wire brush lightly to remove dust from the scoring then airbrushed the carbon black over it.
I had been tempted to use something like India ink but the piece was so thin that I was afraid it would weep to the inside, I also rejected Black Gesso which I have used in the past as I felt it would reduce the effect of the texturing. That left me with very light coats of thinned Carbon Black which did not reduce the texturing.
Most textured pieces I see tend to have a flat or no finish, but I did not want to risk the black being scratched so I tried an experiment and sprayed waterborne lacquer over it in the hope that the reflection patterns would add visual interest. I think the experiment worked reasonably well as when you hold it and move it around light reflects on the facets in a shifting pattern.
Airbrush was an Iwata HP-CS with the stock 0.35 mm needle replaced with a 0.50 mm needle to allow me to more easily airbrush thicker paints or larger particle mica tints.
Spray-gun is an Asturo conversion HVLP
Finish is Target Coatings EM6000 Clear Gloss
It is about 2 1/2" (6 cm) tall
All of the colors are Golden Acrylics.
The inside is a yellow at the bottom to red at the rim fade using transparent acrylic airbrush colors so you can see the underlying wood patterns.
In retrospect, I think I should have applied a hint of shading grey at the rim to give it more visual impact.
The outside is Golden Carbon Black opaque acrylic thinned with Transparent Extender.
I almost always try to ensure that some major portion of the woodturning is either natural wood, or use transparent acrylics / dyes. I want it to be clear that the piece really is wood, even if it has been vividly colored.
The texturing is done with a rotary tool, I use an Optima micromotor, but a Dremel would work too. I used a cheap diamond cutoff wheel from Harbor Freight in the tool to do the texturing, just lightly scoring the surface in intersecting arcs. I used a wire brush lightly to remove dust from the scoring then airbrushed the carbon black over it.
I had been tempted to use something like India ink but the piece was so thin that I was afraid it would weep to the inside, I also rejected Black Gesso which I have used in the past as I felt it would reduce the effect of the texturing. That left me with very light coats of thinned Carbon Black which did not reduce the texturing.
Most textured pieces I see tend to have a flat or no finish, but I did not want to risk the black being scratched so I tried an experiment and sprayed waterborne lacquer over it in the hope that the reflection patterns would add visual interest. I think the experiment worked reasonably well as when you hold it and move it around light reflects on the facets in a shifting pattern.
Airbrush was an Iwata HP-CS with the stock 0.35 mm needle replaced with a 0.50 mm needle to allow me to more easily airbrush thicker paints or larger particle mica tints.
Spray-gun is an Asturo conversion HVLP
Finish is Target Coatings EM6000 Clear Gloss
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pensbydesign
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what no piercings?
I have an idea for a piercing project, I almost went with piercing on this, but changed my mind and went with a different concept. The wall thickness of this could have been pierced.