Inlay bowl.

**Little Festo** · 10th March 2005, 05:29 PM

A small Darwin Black wattle bowl 180mm X 100mm with a crused stone (Malachite) inlay. The stone was set with thin CA glue and shaped with 80 grit paper working down to about 1200 then polished with EEE. Bowl finnished with danish Oil. I would imagine there would be danger of pulling out the stone if gouges etc were used so it the 80 grit tool.

Peter

**ptc** · 10th March 2005, 05:35 PM

Very nice.
not allowed to give you a brownie for it. [green]

**Harry72** · 10th March 2005, 07:35 PM

Very nice, can we have a pic thats shows the inlay better?

**AlexS** · 10th March 2005, 08:10 PM

What Harry said about some more pics, please.

I really like your imaginative use of the malachite - its a good combination with the acacia.

**martrix** · 10th March 2005, 11:36 PM

Veyr nice work Mafesto, what is malachite, and how did you fix it to the timber?

**Little Festo** · 11th March 2005, 09:32 AM

To set the malachite into the top rim I cut a channell trying to follow the shape of the wall, then I put the crushed stone into the channel, then applied thin CA glue. I built up the depth with 3 or 4 applications - stone then CA. The top of the rim looked a bit of a mess - lumpy with sharp bits of stone but this sanded down ok. I tried to ensure that all voids were filled. After sanding i again checked for voids then filled with thick CA. There weren't many but this gave the rim a smoother feel.

See attached photo.

Peter

**RufflyRustic** · 11th March 2005, 10:39 AM

Beautiful work, love the green flecks in the stone!!

Inspiring work!

Thanks
Wendy

**reeves** · 11th March 2005, 11:03 AM

Now thats is nice, very nice indeed !!

did u actually turn the stone....tricky job..?

**oges** · 11th March 2005, 11:07 AM

Looks awesome, adds that extra appeal to a nice bowl

**Little Festo** · 11th March 2005, 03:28 PM

"Reeves" -the stone was shaped using sandpaper.I used scraper to carefully remove the wood on either side of the channel the the sanding.

Peter

**martrix** · 11th March 2005, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by Little Festo

To set the malachite into the top rim I cut a channell trying to follow the shape of the wall, then I put the crushed stone into the channel, then applied thin CA glue. I built up the depth with 3 or 4 applications - stone then CA. The top of the rim looked a bit of a mess - lumpy with sharp bits of stone but this sanded down ok. I tried to ensure that all voids were filled. After sanding i again checked for voids then filled with thick CA. There weren't many but this gave the rim a smoother feel.

See attached photo.

Peter

What is CA glue?

**AlexS** · 11th March 2005, 07:45 PM

Peter, where did you get the crushed malachite. Is it readily available?

**Utuk_Xul** · 12th March 2005, 12:21 AM

CA glue is Cyanoacrylate.. or Crazy Glue

**StockyLil'Ozzy** · 12th March 2005, 12:48 PM

that stone is amazing it has simmilar colours to powa shell (kiwi). looks great set against dark timbers.

**ptc** · 12th March 2005, 07:04 PM

Opal chips would look good.
Malachite has all the shades of green to nearly black normally in swirls
but its a shame to break it up.

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