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This is one of those bowls that the colour is either a love it or hate it. Turned thin from Field Maple and the 6 pierced oval panels painted with iridescent paints, Measures 6" X 2 1/2".
I recently picked up some field maple burr. I have never used it personally and thought it looked a tad rubbish. Well it has been sitting outside until I could get some replacement blades on the bandsaw and when I started I realised I had something rather special.
The translucent ones were...
Hi all, I managed to get this one done....it's been a while both in owning the blank and turning!
This is one of the last batch from Kenneth Wines, sadly I don't know when or if he will do more inlay blanks.
This one is maple, walnut and padauk
Hi all, Some might know I work at a school.... Well this week I was asked by a parent if we wanted some "free wood" apparently he runs his own joinery company, well rude not to accept then.....
If I go can I get first dibbs??
What I collected was already on a pallet and loaded via forklift...
First turning of this year. Made for our club competition.
Field Maple and measures 7 1/4" X 2" and has some light ripple in the bottom, sanded to 600grit and then wiped over with water and given a final sand of 600grit to de-nibed. Chestnut spirit stain applied with paint brushes and acrylic...
Hi All,
This was going to be for a Rollester pen kit but I decided not to fit the parts.
The wood was pretty punky and I didn't do a great job of filling. I wanted to see how this lovely Maple looked with a finish, so I completed the process.
Maple burl pen blank - YouTube
Some last minute requests by the wife for some tea lights(have to keep her sweet). 6 Tea light holders 3 left natural wood, 2 walnut 1 Field maple and 3 with coloured tops 2 Field maple and 1 ash the lower section left natural.
Another challenging Kenneth Wines puzzle blank with 6 coats of MINWAX Clear Satin Polyurethane using my Dipping Method.
Dressed it up with a Canadian Maple Leaf series Antique Silver Sierra.
Les
Hey everyone, it's been a while since I posted so I thought I'd show you all my latest pen I made.
It's got 500 pieces of maple and walnut in it and I made it to celebrate getting to 500 subscribers on my YouTube channel, one piece to represent each subscriber.
I hope you like it and if you...
Well....we all start on slims and we all think we graduate to "better" pens.....I fought long and hard on one of these the other Maple came off in ribbons, like acrylic...lol
Both finished in melamine:whistling::whistling: