The Woodshop Shed

A Bowl - OR - There's Money in Wood

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


I rough-turned this in March, last year. I re-mounted it a couple days ago. Did some more turning on it to make it round again and to make it thinner, using tools I did not have more than a year ago.The exterior finish was far too much work. I probably spent about ten hours on it. I got it acceptable and went to the interior. Spalted, wormy, punky Maple is a thing that, unlike Cocobolo, for instance, does not care to become shiny, or smooth. Not on the inside, anyhow. I think I did an okay job on the outside, as I said. There I was, busting a nut on the inside, today, and came to the conclusion that there was not much I could do to make it stop being ugly. I even went over to HF and bought some sanding balls. No joy. This Thing simply wanted to be butt-ugly, on the inside. That's why I did what I did to the inside. So you wouldn't have to see how ugly it was.I mixed some black pearl dye and Macropearl in WOP and brushed it on. A lot of it did I brush on, using a hair dryer between coats. I decided that the bark, too, was nothing to write home about. So, I mixed some WOP with Yellow Gold dye and Macropearl, and gave it the same treatment.I finished the bottom by utilizing the Styrofoam ball method, squashed up with the tailstock live center. I had a lot of leftover Gold WOP, so I applied some of that to the bottom, too. It was a lot less ugly than the inside. It probably would have accepted a full-blown finishing as well as the outside had. But (not to put too fine a point on it), I was sick of fighting with this Thing, and wanted to be done with it.The penny? Some significance? Yeah. The “significance,” as you put it, is that I just felt like it. And, also, while I possess a 3/4” Forstner bit (the size of a penny), I do not have a 45/64ths Forstner. Otherwise, it would have been a shiny dime. And, also, shut up.My Echo, my Shadow, and Me? We all apologize to thee.- If you're trying to find a needle in a haystack, use a magnet – Mark The Problem-Solver. You're welcome.- If you're having trouble making both ends meet, make one end vegetables – Mark The Problem-Solver. You're welcome.Mark The Problem Solver. (Just being cute. It pains me that life has gotten so stupid that people need to be told not to drink bleach.)

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