W.Y.
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Looked up on a shelf this afternoon and spotted three spalted horse chestnut blanks that were too punky to turn last summer so I soaked them for a week in a 50/50 polyurethane mixture and then set them up there to dry. Forgot all about them until spotting them there today behind some other stuff .
Put one piece on the lathe that looked like this. It was shallow on one side so I knew it was going to be a dish rather than a bowl.
Turned the bottom and added a tenon
Reverse chucked and hollowed out inside and sanded to 600 grit.
Put on vacuum chuck to turn the foot.
Foot turned and sanded bottom to 600 grit.
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At this point I began thinking about a finish for this one. But seeing as it had earlier been saturated with urethane I figured it might just come up nice with nothing but buffing.
Went through tripoli, then white diamond and then wax and it came up with a sheen that not only looks pretty good but it feels like velvet to the touch.
The entire project took a little over an hour from start to finish.
Put one piece on the lathe that looked like this. It was shallow on one side so I knew it was going to be a dish rather than a bowl.
Turned the bottom and added a tenon
Reverse chucked and hollowed out inside and sanded to 600 grit.
Put on vacuum chuck to turn the foot.
Foot turned and sanded bottom to 600 grit.
At this point I began thinking about a finish for this one. But seeing as it had earlier been saturated with urethane I figured it might just come up nice with nothing but buffing.
Went through tripoli, then white diamond and then wax and it came up with a sheen that not only looks pretty good but it feels like velvet to the touch.
The entire project took a little over an hour from start to finish.
