pete00
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A few days ago i was playing, had a hunk of cherry, intended to make a bowl for wife, went from this
just about done..was saying "yes im a genius.... a real norm abraham junior". All i had to do was take off one small mark....put down my friendly gouge and picked up the ........skew.
Two seconds later
another one of my famous kerchunks.....
Now im mad its bad enough my hot chocolate froze, and I had to chew it .. now i have nothing to show for my cold morning.
Decided to take it out on lilac bush in back of house. Grabed a saw, went out back and attacked the first peice i came to. It was about a foot long and a good 2" round.
What did i get.
Inside was really pretty. The real supprise was how i finished the outside. After turning and sanding to about 320, never really planned on doing anything with it. I grabed a hand full of shaving and continued to sand (burnish)with that. Holly cow, it just shined to beat the band, and got as smooth as a baby skin.
I have read of others using sawdust, shaving, and a piece of pine to do that , but never tried it. Will have to continue to try this.
Of course your thinking now I have a pretty piece of wood to make a pen from right...wrong..while i was warming up in the nice warm house the lilac had another supprise.
Warm house+frozen wood = a whole bunch of cracks.
pete
just about done..was saying "yes im a genius.... a real norm abraham junior". All i had to do was take off one small mark....put down my friendly gouge and picked up the ........skew.
Two seconds later
another one of my famous kerchunks.....
Now im mad its bad enough my hot chocolate froze, and I had to chew it .. now i have nothing to show for my cold morning.
Decided to take it out on lilac bush in back of house. Grabed a saw, went out back and attacked the first peice i came to. It was about a foot long and a good 2" round.
What did i get.
Inside was really pretty. The real supprise was how i finished the outside. After turning and sanding to about 320, never really planned on doing anything with it. I grabed a hand full of shaving and continued to sand (burnish)with that. Holly cow, it just shined to beat the band, and got as smooth as a baby skin.
I have read of others using sawdust, shaving, and a piece of pine to do that , but never tried it. Will have to continue to try this.
Of course your thinking now I have a pretty piece of wood to make a pen from right...wrong..while i was warming up in the nice warm house the lilac had another supprise.
Warm house+frozen wood = a whole bunch of cracks.
pete
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