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15th August 2014, 02:42 PM #1Intermediate Member
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A present for my wife.
Hi guys,
I've been turning for a little while, and I've been making lots of random things and giving them away, But I haven't kept anthing for myself and especially my wife. I suffer from acute PTSD and the turning has been my therapy and she's been through hell with me and I want to show her my appreciation.
Yes it's a bit of a sob story but i'm very intent on giving her something to show her I appreciate her.
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15th August 2014, 02:45 PM #2Intermediate Member
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This is my latest item, it took me three days but slow and steady i guess hey.
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15th August 2014, 03:51 PM #3Senior Member
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Great vase, excellent piece of wood, maybe except for the crack (I guess in a finished piece it should be called a 'feature' )
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15th August 2014, 03:56 PM #4Intermediate Member
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15th August 2014, 04:56 PM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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I love the wood, the two main colours add contrast.
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15th August 2014, 05:09 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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Looks good.Is it juniper?
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15th August 2014, 07:35 PM #7Intermediate Member
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16th August 2014, 12:09 AM #8
Nice work mate. Nothing like making shavings to escape the woes of the world at times, very therapeutic for all of us. Just watch out, sometimes you get to ponder "what happened to that wonderful piece of wood I had?" when you get to wrapped up in making shavings.
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16th August 2014, 05:23 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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You don't mention what finish you put on it .A few years ago I finished a load of juniper bowls with DO and after a while they all became tacky.I ended up stripping all the DO off and finishing with EEE and Shellawax and that seemed to fix it,still I keep hopeing I'll find another load of juniper some day.
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16th August 2014, 05:31 PM #10human termite
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great looking vase mate,what a lovely present it will be ,and you get something out of it as well,keep it up ..........bob
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17th August 2014, 07:39 AM #14Intermediate Member
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the finish is 3 light coats of tung oil, and then finished it with the two part HUT sticks. I really appreciate all the love guys as i've only been teaching myself lathe work for 6 months. with a really old lathe and second hand tools that i've picked up for next to nothing my whole lathe set up has cost me $150. But the most cost to me was a bit of elbow grease and pulling everything apart and re-lubricating it all so it would work again. I've only just stopped using my cars carnauba wax and converted to the hut sticks cause i didn't know any better...
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