Dai Sensei
Member
I couldn't resist turning a few of the banksia blanks I've been casting over the past weeks. Broken wrist is driving me nuts and I am bored, and pens are the only thing I'm willing to turn single handed.
Apart from the colours, you can really see how variable the "pattern" is on the banksias. Difference in seed hole size and spacing, and extent of the black fury bits. I've been casting the smaller ones trying to get larger holes, but in doing so, I get more fury black bits.
I can't get Ultraseal here in Aus and stabilizing with the special water thin epoxy hardener seems to have worked the best. It makes the timber very hard and helps stick the resin filled holes. I still lost the odd hole when they got close to size, so I still used thin CA at 1-2mm off size
Very hard to photograph and I can't get the colours to match the real appearance. The first set is green, blue, copper, yellow and gold. The second white, pale green (mix of green and white - special order), purple, blue/purple, candy pink. Kits are a mix of satin chrome, satin copper, black ti and black chrome gold.
I've got around 50-60 new blanks made, just have to stabilize them before putting them up for sale.
Cheers
Apart from the colours, you can really see how variable the "pattern" is on the banksias. Difference in seed hole size and spacing, and extent of the black fury bits. I've been casting the smaller ones trying to get larger holes, but in doing so, I get more fury black bits.
I can't get Ultraseal here in Aus and stabilizing with the special water thin epoxy hardener seems to have worked the best. It makes the timber very hard and helps stick the resin filled holes. I still lost the odd hole when they got close to size, so I still used thin CA at 1-2mm off size
Very hard to photograph and I can't get the colours to match the real appearance. The first set is green, blue, copper, yellow and gold. The second white, pale green (mix of green and white - special order), purple, blue/purple, candy pink. Kits are a mix of satin chrome, satin copper, black ti and black chrome gold.
I've got around 50-60 new blanks made, just have to stabilize them before putting them up for sale.
Cheers