dai sensei
11th January 2010, 10:10 PM
Well these puppies have taken a while to finish, and not without plenty of miss-haps. After my cheese platter/cutting board stuff-up for my nephews wedding present, that I have ended up keeping :rolleyes:, they requested one of my pepper grinders as an alternative gift.
Rather than my usual large timber ones, I had a few WA large banksia staring at me, and with all the casting of banksias I've been doing lately I thought well why not :roll:. Due to my broken wrist still playing up, I also can't get into any larger turning job, although I have found WA banksias are pretty hard (especially when effectively soaked in CA :(). Each grinder took 2 banksia, with the left-overs made into candle holders (in a bit of a hurry :-, time is running out). One is cast with pearl white pearlex, the other silver pearlex (that comes out swirling dark grey & silver), overall height 170mm.
All are finished with Shellewax/EEE/Glow. I'll leave for a week, then re-buff with HUT.
Learning: When turning grinder body with jam chucks and you are using lots of CA, use plenty of wax on the jam chucks :rolleyes:, otherwise they stick permanently :doh:
http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=126556&stc=1&d=1263207743
http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=126557&stc=1&d=1263207743
http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=126558&stc=1&d=1263207743
Rather than my usual large timber ones, I had a few WA large banksia staring at me, and with all the casting of banksias I've been doing lately I thought well why not :roll:. Due to my broken wrist still playing up, I also can't get into any larger turning job, although I have found WA banksias are pretty hard (especially when effectively soaked in CA :(). Each grinder took 2 banksia, with the left-overs made into candle holders (in a bit of a hurry :-, time is running out). One is cast with pearl white pearlex, the other silver pearlex (that comes out swirling dark grey & silver), overall height 170mm.
All are finished with Shellewax/EEE/Glow. I'll leave for a week, then re-buff with HUT.
Learning: When turning grinder body with jam chucks and you are using lots of CA, use plenty of wax on the jam chucks :rolleyes:, otherwise they stick permanently :doh:
http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=126556&stc=1&d=1263207743
http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=126557&stc=1&d=1263207743
http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=126558&stc=1&d=1263207743