Thread: Mini Turning Day Sunday 3rd August

Chipman changing to other finishes wont always fix the problem.

Go to the Melbourne show on the saturday or sunday and get a closer look at how it is done.

I dont recomend friday as that is usually the busiest time and you may not get the attention you want.

Well, if it was a bowl, yep use the Cream.

The prob solver page suggests some options to recover from patchy - eg. cut with EEE and recoat.

That said, some bits of timber even within the same species will yield different quality finishes. Redgum is one of them.

To add to that ... FWIW, I accept Ubeaut's claim that Shellawax and S. Cream are easy, yewbeaut products and all that.

Their website instruction and problem solving pages would be the best in the business.

They acknowledge that there's no silver bullet.

Which is true for all finishes.

So: try the EEE cutting back and S recoat. Try the Cream. (Didn't someone advertise a seconds special on the Cream?).

Having gone back over those product pages, I note that now S. uses hard Shellac, which is enough to get me interested again. Big concession from a committed DO finisher.

Thanks for all the advice...one thing for sure, I haven't given up on shellawax yet! After seeing what others have done with it, I will eventually learn to master it.

Just by way of interest, I finished one of my red gum clocks with lacquer over danish oil. I burnished it with oil, several weeks apart... and after a few more weeks gave it effectively about 12 light coats of lacquer with a cut back with wet and dry after about coats 4 and 8 and 10 and it is fairly gleaming. Now while that is nice, I want to learn how to do the "finishing off the lathe" as it is not only convenient but it is often more effective than trying to spray it after the fact.

Cheers,

Chipman

Originally Posted by DJ's Timber

Hasn't been touched since Sunday but Jeff is coming back here on Friday and hopefully between the 2 of us, will get the final form turned down and sanded then, so if you haven't got anything planned on Friday Chipman, you're welcome to turn up

never even got in the shed today, doing a log recovery this morning before Jeff was to arrive but I had a snapped fitting on one of my stabilisers on the crane truck and got stuck on site for about 4 hrs whilst Pirtek tried to chased up a new fitting and repair it so I could could back on the road, eventually we end up cutting the pipe shorter and brazing a new fitting on it and put in a short section of hydrualic hose as they couldn't get one for a week or so .

Had to ring my neighbour to pass a message onto Jeff, again I'm sorry to muck the day up Jeff, as I said on the phone just sing out when you ready to come back down this way and we'll get it done .

Some pics of the snapped fitting and the load that I was doing.

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DJ

No worries about today - IT happens!

We'll catch up in a month or so and finish that yellow box burl bowl. That piece of blackwood I gave you looks great too, so turn something out of it if you can to make my mouth water.

I had a great time at the mini turnfest - putting faces to names was terrific. As was the instruction from all, particularly from you and . I must admit I was a little worried when the Vicmarc started dancing across the floor. And the clouds of dust.

The problem with these events is the effect on my wallet. All those new tools and gadgets!

I'm about a week behind in my thread reading / responses, so more to come. Two days worth of lessons from deserves some special attention - maybe some other beginners on the lathe will benefit.

Jeff

Bummer DJ... it bugs you even more when you get stuck on a job knowing that somebody else is waiting for you somewhere else.