Showing posts with label finishing wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finishing wood. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Voyage to Darkness Continues

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Well, onwards and upwards. The ebonized bowl is coming along slowly but surely. Now the outside has several coats of ebony the inside is s...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

Write Away! Wooden Pens turned on a lathe.

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One of the items that we make is wooden pens. They are great fun to make. From the beginning when they are blocks of wood, to their turnin...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Paint the Rainbow!

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Tops and their finished look After matching the tops and their handles with color, then at least two coats of shellac.  In between each c...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Color; what to do when you parts don't match

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Color.  Sometimes we need to adjust the color. In making Handles for shave bowls, sometimes we have to use regular maple instead of spalt...
Monday, March 5, 2012

First Finish Layer - How does it look?

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Here is the sanded piece with 1 coat of thinned shellac. The exposure (brightness) is really turned up.  In person, the void looks sim...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Maple Spalt Filled and Sanded

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Here's the patch after being sanded.  And yes, it is lighter than the surrounding lines once the shellac is added as the first layer o...

Filling the Void and Finish

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One of favorite types of wood to work with is a hardwood that has spalted.  Through the natural processes of breaking down the tree, fungi c...