dai sensei
3rd June 2007, 11:55 AM
I went to a house walming party last night and gave the below as my gift. I only had yesterday and one night last week to make it, late notice on the party, so chose Cedar as I have a fare bit.
I picked what I thought was a nice solid lump and cut out a blank 400 dia with the chain saw. I rough turned the outside only to find it full of dead wood where old branches joined and around the sap wood. I turned off most of the sap wood and cut out branch dead wood filling it with clear resin. Due to lack of time though, I had to repair any fractured resin, and the heaps of bug holes, with CA. I did manage to use my Bowl Saver for the center that I can make another bowl from.
The final bowl was only 300mm dia and finished with Shellewax/EEE/Glow. The Cedar is very pink, so obviously still a bit green, hopeully it wont crack on me in the future.
I picked what I thought was a nice solid lump and cut out a blank 400 dia with the chain saw. I rough turned the outside only to find it full of dead wood where old branches joined and around the sap wood. I turned off most of the sap wood and cut out branch dead wood filling it with clear resin. Due to lack of time though, I had to repair any fractured resin, and the heaps of bug holes, with CA. I did manage to use my Bowl Saver for the center that I can make another bowl from.
The final bowl was only 300mm dia and finished with Shellewax/EEE/Glow. The Cedar is very pink, so obviously still a bit green, hopeully it wont crack on me in the future.