Pyrography
Posted on August 20, 2007 - Filed Under Surface treatments | Leave a Comment
Started to pay attention to surface treatment and finished my first image on the side of a bowl.
Learning’s:
I bought the “Detail” burning system. I am not at all happy with the replaceable tips, they heat intermittently. The fixed tips work better but are more expensive.
I went down to Craft Supplies and got a Razor tip [...]
Weird OAK MAN Bowl
Posted on August 20, 2007 - Filed Under Bowls | Leave a Comment
I got this weird idea to turn a log transversely and this was the results.
I didn’t care much for it, way to heavy.
Oh well you have to experiment to learn.
Note: my first attempt at pyrography.
Unlike the name the wood is spruce :)
New Arrivals
Posted on August 20, 2007 - Filed Under Rattles | Leave a Comment
I had two granddaughters arrive this summer so I thought that I would turn a simple heirloom.
Made from maple and mahogany with black eyed pea rattles. Finished in walnut oil.
Made to US Consumer Safety “Requirement for Rattles, 16 C.F.R Part 1510.
The final coffee cup
Posted on August 18, 2007 - Filed Under Metal Spinning | Leave a Comment
Here is the formal picture of the completed and USED coffee cup.
Everything worked well and it was fun to go to corporate meetings with this cup, it was very distracting.
My finger is almost totally healed.
Learning’s:
The epoxy and silicon adhesive works great.
It would be better if the lip was thinner.
Hybrid wine glass
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Hollow Forms | 1 Comment
I just read a technique in a forum where the turner cuts the stem from a cheap wine glass and turns a wood stem to replace it.
I think I’ll try it!
I’ll post when I get my first wine glass.
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