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turnerted
29th November 2017, 11:30 AM
G,day
Been doing a bit of hybrid casting lately .The first three are WA banksia cone screwtop boxes . The forth is a blackbut burl screwtop box .5 and 6 are a cotonyaster screwtop box with gumnuts .
7 and 8 are a bowl with sheoak cones .The gumnut box and sheoak bowl are inspired by Brenden Stemp's work .
The first is my favourite . I call it my jaguar box .I use a dental pick and compressed air to remove the seeds from the cone and I discovered that in this case , the air also removed the surrounding material so that the seed casing rim was about 1mm proud of the surface.
The resin is epoxy and the finish is polyurathane .
Comments welcome.
Ted

artful bodger
29th November 2017, 07:23 PM
Well done, they look interesting and pretty cool to boot.
How does the resin turn, sand etc?.

smiife
29th November 2017, 07:51 PM
Hi ted , you have been busy ! I like the boxes, how easily
does the resin thread ?
Good job by the way , well done:2tsup:

brainstrust
29th November 2017, 08:54 PM
larrrrrrrrrrrrv the green one :2tsup:

artme
30th November 2017, 06:46 AM
Great little collection there Edward!! Well done!!:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

turnerted
3rd December 2017, 02:06 PM
Thanks for the comments.
Artfull bodger -The resin is quite hard to turn although you can use any sharp tool . I mostly use a carbide tool to rough to shape and a negative rake scraper to finish off .I mostly power sand to 400 . Finishing with polyurathane , there is no need to go any finer.
Smiife - It is beautiful for thread cutting .The banksia threads pretty well too after saturating with CA glue .
Ted