Thread: Wood Gloat

Oh yummy just beautiful. Definitely skite worthy. Especially the one with the dark areas should make one hot pen
Toni

Wow, great looking wood! Let me guess what you will be working on over the weekend lol. I have got to get this stabalizing thing figured out. I have so much of that hackberry and cottonwood (actually, almost unlimited supply), but it really should be stabalized.

Cheers,

Rick

If any unstable ones fall off the table , send them too------ me. Amos

Nice one Darren.

What are the stabilized ones stabilized with? I have my pressure pot now and was thinking of stabilizing my Scribbly Gum burl blanks. I was going to use casting resin, but I believe there are thinner better products.

Neil the dried substance is yellow and it smells like a poly uerathane. Because it has been in the stuff and a vacuum has been drawn it is water logged and when dry it is rock hard. Even the borer sawdust. If you used casting resin you would need a consistancy of thin CA, the same if you are using a plexi solution. I am getting a 4 litre jug of stuff tomorrow and will be stabilizing some of my Spalted Mango that I was given. If it works I will contact you.
Darren

Yum! Gotta get more blanks !

Eeeeek, I think I just discovered that there is no such thing as "enough" !

Originally Posted by bdar

Neil the dried substance is yellow and it smells like a poly uerathane. Because it has been in the stuff and a vacuum has been drawn it is water logged and when dry it is rock hard. Even the borer sawdust. If you used casting resin you would need a consistancy of thin CA, the same if you are using a plexi solution. I am getting a 4 litre jug of stuff tomorrow and will be stabilizing some of my Spalted Mango that I was given. If it works I will contact you.
Darren

Thanks. I have been heating the resin, but still worry it isn't thin enough, and looking for alternative.

You have been having fun,share with you your gloat,wish you well with your chemistry set up. Sharing means looking,worked it out tother day I have enough blanks for a thousand pens or more.Bought some fiery Cocobolo,Figure,quilted Ironwood,blaze Huon Pine,and extraordinary pieces.

Scroll sent me a variety of beaut colours shapes and pure excitement,got twenty specs from Queensland and 60 from a dealer in Griffith NSW,some sticks of pink carob tree from mid west australia and a swag of olive from bethlehem that will need to be gold plated from the blokes claims and price.Bethlehem is in lockdown so it will be tops only when I have received from Israel via a friends daughter who lives there.

I am in the meantime wrestling with those all important pipes in the ground that we depend on for storm water and that other stuff,in lock down till I solve that under concrete of course.

Send me a pm with your home phone number,been trying your mobile without success.Have news for you. Peter

Nice score Darren I am interested to see how your stabizing comes out too