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4th February 2015, 11:55 PM #31Senior Member
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The final product
Here is the final result of my turned post with rail and banisters. (Yes the switch plate is crooked because I haven't tightened the screws down yet)
Found a few other chunks of wood behind the shed for banisters, planed them down, googled for a few arty-farty flowers, got busy with the jigsaw, and turned out okay for a first attempt.
I recently was involved in cleaning out a hoarders house(9 x 6metre skips from in the house!) and acquired a boot full of exotic hard woods, ranging from black ebony to purple eucalypts, to many others and here, a hand rail made of Bocote. I'd never heard of it before, but it comes from Mexico, and it is like machining steel, not so much in hardness, which it is, but because it is so incredibly dense, almost wax like. The varnish coats it more like a plastic coating rather than adhering to the grain. All in all, it was a lot of fun.
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5th February 2015, 08:19 AM #32
That is a swrrt looking job. Wrll done
Dave TTC
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5th February 2015, 09:57 AM #33
Well done on completing this project and thank you for sharing.
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