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Thread: Mallee Root Ball casting
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23rd February 2017, 07:38 PM #1
Mallee Root Ball casting
I score a pallet ,lad of mallee roots off Big Stan a while back. There were some solid pieces, but most were hollow with burls, perfect for casting.
mallee roots1.jpg
I heard I had beaten Dinkidi to them, so agreed to sell some of them to him, but started cutting the rest up into manageable pieces. Last weekend I took one of those pieces down to my bandsaw and cut them up into casting blanks and started casting them into pepper grinder blanks, with the leftovers cast into knife scale/pen blank blocks.
Flouro green pepper grinder blank
big flouro green red mallee pepper grinder blank.jpg
and some knife scale/pen blanks
flouro green red mallee block2.jpg flouro green red mallee block.jpg
Some small salt & pepper matching blanks, pale pink Pearlex for salt and some antique silver Pearlex for pepper
pink rock salt and antique silver red mallee pepper grinder blanks.jpg
Some more small salt & pepper blanks, blue Pearlex and purple Pearlex
purple and blue red mallee pepper grinder blanks.jpg
Left over red and white Pearlex for "strawberries and cream" knife scale/pen blank block
strawberries and cream red mallee block.jpg
and of course with left over strawberries and cream resins, some peach stone pen blanks
strawberries and cream peach stone pen blanks.jpgNeil____________________________________________Every day presents an opportunity to learn something new
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23rd February 2017, 09:15 PM #2
Neil, I might be interested in the pen blanks . . .
Pat
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24th February 2017, 02:43 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Dai Sensei, Would you be partial to selling any blanks (notably the green) either in Pen blank size or Bottle stopper size (50x50x75)?
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24th February 2017, 12:02 PM #4
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24th February 2017, 02:39 PM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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They look good. Interesting to see some of these PM blanks finished Neil
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24th February 2017, 09:39 PM #6
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25th February 2017, 06:35 AM #7Intermediate Member
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As a complete novice may I ask what resin you use for the casting?
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25th February 2017, 04:11 PM #8
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25th February 2017, 04:48 PM #9Intermediate Member
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OK and thanks,it all looks amazing to me. I saw some other stuff you did in another thread and immediately thought of the mini she oak cones.
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14th March 2017, 08:30 PM #10
Here is the turned Peaches and Cream blank.
Peaches & Cream 04.jpgPeaches & Cream 03.jpgPeaches & Cream 02.jpgPeaches & Cream 01.jpgPat
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15th March 2017, 05:45 PM #11Intermediate Member
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You certainly get into those different colours.
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19th April 2017, 11:06 AM #12Skwair2rownd
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Yummy looking stuphph old son!!
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26th June 2017, 10:51 AM #13New Member
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What kind of resin do you use down in australia. Up here in canada we cant get the european resins.
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