robutacion
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Hi everyone,
I just realised that was in June last year (2011) that I cut this lonely tree from the paddock, where it lived, the full story with pics, here but interestingly, it wasn't started as the "gift" promised to the land owners from where the tree was cut but, an urge to grab this particular log I used last week to cut a wood sample for a wood collector in Germany, was...!
I left the 2 1/2' log near the bandsaw for later storing or put back from where I got in from in my dry wood storage shed and all of a certain, late in the afternoon on Friday (29-6) I had to do something with it and that was not put it back but, cut its top (3 branch head) that I always kept in the back of my mind, for one rainy day, project...!
It happen that was a rainy day, as it has been for a couple of weeks so, and instead of finishing for the day as it was nearly dark, I decided to cut it, mount it in the lathe and give it a general shape before dinner but that didn't turn out exactly as I wanted as, I kept going until the wife would get upset of waiting to dish up dinner and come downstairs, with the broom-stick...!
:biggrin:
A 10 minute job become an almost 1 hour, as I only left it after I had if close to shape and have all the many soft spots soaked with very thin CA, for a overnight drying time...! I was lucky that it was raining like buggery for that hour and that the dinner wasn't something that had to be eaten immediately after cooked so, she didn't wanted to come out to the cold and wet but, I got a mouth full but was all...!:wink:
Was only yesterday when the wife went and had a look at that bowl I said was the reason for me being late for dinner, that she said, " Is this the bowl you promise to the tree owner...???" was then when I realise that, that though was not in my head the day before but, another very different one, where the wife would get another ornament for the house, while I had my urge settled so, I wasn't going to disappoint her and tell that, the bowl was in fact for her, I simply kept my mouth shut and, agreed to her statement/question, with a head signal...!:wink: well, wouldn't you...??? I like my "brownie" points...!:wink:
I decided to finish it with natural wood oil but I had to do something about the wood soaking far too much in many areas so, I gave if a good soaking coat of wood sanding sealer about lunch time and then just before finished for the day, I rub it good with 0000 steal wool and then a generous soaking with the "Arganoil" oil.
This morning gave it another coat of oil, another one a few hours ago and about an hour or so ago I buffed it up and took some pics, as I would be delivering it this evening, something that they, the tree owners have not a clue about...!
So, everything endup working well in the end and, I'm sure the land owner's wife, will be very pleased with it, as she had a "thing" for that lonely tree, by itself in a whole paddock...!
Hope you like it...!
Cheers
George
I just realised that was in June last year (2011) that I cut this lonely tree from the paddock, where it lived, the full story with pics, here but interestingly, it wasn't started as the "gift" promised to the land owners from where the tree was cut but, an urge to grab this particular log I used last week to cut a wood sample for a wood collector in Germany, was...!
I left the 2 1/2' log near the bandsaw for later storing or put back from where I got in from in my dry wood storage shed and all of a certain, late in the afternoon on Friday (29-6) I had to do something with it and that was not put it back but, cut its top (3 branch head) that I always kept in the back of my mind, for one rainy day, project...!
It happen that was a rainy day, as it has been for a couple of weeks so, and instead of finishing for the day as it was nearly dark, I decided to cut it, mount it in the lathe and give it a general shape before dinner but that didn't turn out exactly as I wanted as, I kept going until the wife would get upset of waiting to dish up dinner and come downstairs, with the broom-stick...!
:biggrin:A 10 minute job become an almost 1 hour, as I only left it after I had if close to shape and have all the many soft spots soaked with very thin CA, for a overnight drying time...! I was lucky that it was raining like buggery for that hour and that the dinner wasn't something that had to be eaten immediately after cooked so, she didn't wanted to come out to the cold and wet but, I got a mouth full but was all...!:wink:
Was only yesterday when the wife went and had a look at that bowl I said was the reason for me being late for dinner, that she said, " Is this the bowl you promise to the tree owner...???" was then when I realise that, that though was not in my head the day before but, another very different one, where the wife would get another ornament for the house, while I had my urge settled so, I wasn't going to disappoint her and tell that, the bowl was in fact for her, I simply kept my mouth shut and, agreed to her statement/question, with a head signal...!:wink: well, wouldn't you...??? I like my "brownie" points...!
:wink:I decided to finish it with natural wood oil but I had to do something about the wood soaking far too much in many areas so, I gave if a good soaking coat of wood sanding sealer about lunch time and then just before finished for the day, I rub it good with 0000 steal wool and then a generous soaking with the "Arganoil" oil.
This morning gave it another coat of oil, another one a few hours ago and about an hour or so ago I buffed it up and took some pics, as I would be delivering it this evening, something that they, the tree owners have not a clue about...!
So, everything endup working well in the end and, I'm sure the land owner's wife, will be very pleased with it, as she had a "thing" for that lonely tree, by itself in a whole paddock...!
Hope you like it...!
Cheers
George
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