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New Bowl Project for today and probably tomorrow... African Padauk
AndrewB posted a topic in Wood Turners
Started off on a new project this morning. Got it in the works already. This one is turning out already 100 times better shaped it in a matter of minutes. Started sanding on it its only at 60 grit but that took care of pretty much all of the tool marks on the outside of the bowl so I'm quite happy with this one. I think I will keep working with the tung oil finish on it. It should work quite well... It did okay with the purple heart I just had to do three coats of it instead of one or two. But the main reason I dislike this type of wood is the danged orange dust it just gets every where. Glad I have an air compressor with a blower air blower piece. But this one is turning out quite nicely.
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So going back to the hollowing troubles I had I put that on the back burner for now. My purple heart and padauk blanks arrived this morning. I decided to run with the purple heart not having the right sort of mask I don't think at least for the Padauk. I've been running the blanks that I get right off the bat, so far I have NOT had any issues with working on them with the wax sealer on. In fact it actually makes it easier getting the sealer off just carving into it. So I think I've been prety lucky on that part of it. How ever I was expecting the purple heart to be a bit moist with the sealer on it... how ever I was dead wrong on that assumption it is dry as a bone. Not sure if I bit off more than I could chew being a noob turner. Yep using EWT rougher on this one and its working beautifully. I've got a rough idea in mind for this one since I want to do an actual BOWL instead of a cup like bowl. This is the 6x6x3 I ordered so I think that should give me plenty to round it down and put a tenon rather than mortise onto it. For some reason I've always been quite fond of purpleheart. But not sure if I should even be trying to attempt this but I'm crazy enough to. (I do apologize for the double thread today.)
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