dai sensei
15th July 2007, 01:52 PM
Ok this started as a green lump of Morton Bay Fig from Soundman. I few members mentioned this stuff was crap, and after this exercise, I tend to agree. When green it has beautiful figure and a whitish colour. Unfortunately as it dries it goes a horrible mouldy grey colour.
I tried putting it in shavings drying it slow, drying it fast (that caused cracks :(( ), drying it slow again, spraying it with Exitmould - nothing stopped the mould. The Exitmould did turn it white on the surface, but underneath it was that horrible colour.
I turned it, being very careful with a mask because of the mould, then sprayed it with Exitmould again, even dropped it in bleach for a while, but I couldn't get it back to the orginal white all over. So after sanding to 1200 I dyed it blue - I used Ubeaut's stuff. I used Ubeaut's sealer first to try and get an even coat. Then used hot water mix to start with, but ended up with staight out of the bottle to get a beautiful deep blue.
As I sanded it again, with just 1200, some areas still reverted to the lighter colour which I didn't like, but those areas did show the chatoyance (3D effect). So I went back through the sand paper grades to sand back and show the chatoyance all over, but that didn't work either and I ended up with a half and half.
The photo doesn't show the chatoyance too well, but can't say I'm happy with the overall result anyway. My son just said - "that looks pretty crappy" :doh: :U It's finished with Shellewax and Shellewax Cream.
Cheers
I tried putting it in shavings drying it slow, drying it fast (that caused cracks :(( ), drying it slow again, spraying it with Exitmould - nothing stopped the mould. The Exitmould did turn it white on the surface, but underneath it was that horrible colour.
I turned it, being very careful with a mask because of the mould, then sprayed it with Exitmould again, even dropped it in bleach for a while, but I couldn't get it back to the orginal white all over. So after sanding to 1200 I dyed it blue - I used Ubeaut's stuff. I used Ubeaut's sealer first to try and get an even coat. Then used hot water mix to start with, but ended up with staight out of the bottle to get a beautiful deep blue.
As I sanded it again, with just 1200, some areas still reverted to the lighter colour which I didn't like, but those areas did show the chatoyance (3D effect). So I went back through the sand paper grades to sand back and show the chatoyance all over, but that didn't work either and I ended up with a half and half.
The photo doesn't show the chatoyance too well, but can't say I'm happy with the overall result anyway. My son just said - "that looks pretty crappy" :doh: :U It's finished with Shellewax and Shellewax Cream.
Cheers