mimpi
3rd August 2011, 04:15 PM
I had a few hours on Sunday to fiddle. I decided I need to do some practice turning coves and balls and things so combined that with making a wand for my five year old.
having never done it before it was quite new to me. I started at the tail stock end and did about 1 " sanded to 240 and applied eee and cream. I noticed my confidence grew the closer i was getting to the head-stock. which may or may not be evident haha I did everything with a skew. I tried using a spindle gouge at first but felt more at ease with skew.
I know the proportions are outta whack and it doesn't taper properly and its very busy for a wand but hey it was great learning experience for me and I am keen to have another crack at it. i had a go at burning some lines with a bit of wire wrapped around a 6" nail. I learnt from this that you have to burn in before you apply the finish as the finish was very heat resistant / just very low coefficient of friction so not much heat built up.
Wood was off-cut of old redgum fence post.
I also made my first rolling pin out of a bit of cherry. I was pleased with how this one turned out. Its perfect size for my kids to roll out some dough for baking biscuits. polished this with 240 as well and finished with olive oil.
having never done it before it was quite new to me. I started at the tail stock end and did about 1 " sanded to 240 and applied eee and cream. I noticed my confidence grew the closer i was getting to the head-stock. which may or may not be evident haha I did everything with a skew. I tried using a spindle gouge at first but felt more at ease with skew.
I know the proportions are outta whack and it doesn't taper properly and its very busy for a wand but hey it was great learning experience for me and I am keen to have another crack at it. i had a go at burning some lines with a bit of wire wrapped around a 6" nail. I learnt from this that you have to burn in before you apply the finish as the finish was very heat resistant / just very low coefficient of friction so not much heat built up.
Wood was off-cut of old redgum fence post.
I also made my first rolling pin out of a bit of cherry. I was pleased with how this one turned out. Its perfect size for my kids to roll out some dough for baking biscuits. polished this with 240 as well and finished with olive oil.