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Found the right URL..ummm...maybe too big now........

Sorry 'bout that, used all my memory up here & having to post from Imageshack.
Can't find the URL to allow the pics to open up.....

Here's a couple of closups though........

I thought I would post a few pics of my last project. Started segmented turning a few months ago, and after a few vases I thought I would try something different, and this I what I came up with.
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Here's a few pics of it finished with 4 coats of wipe on poly. I'll probably apply a couple more coats yet.

All I need now is to learn to play it properly, as in cyclic breathing, coz I'm running...

This was my first attempt at a musical instrument.

It is a 456 piece segmented didge made from silky oak, Aussie cedar with a top & bottom cap in Tassy Myrtle.

Almost finished sanding so I...

This one is previous to and smaller than my other posting of Silky & Cedar Vase.
It is 520mm high and 290mm diameter and is made from Silky Oak, 150yr old Aus. Cedar and Bimble Box for the centre...

Haha, not with my jet midi I won't.........lol

Trying different timbers as feature panels but so far I like the bimble box with its natural voids, great for turquoise inlaying.

Thanks for the nice comments ppl.

It is actually my 5th piece in 2 months since I started segmented turning.

For hollowing out I built the vase up from the base and hollowed as I went. I then...

Started turning about 3 yrs ago, the usual bowls etc.

Got inspired a couple of months ago to start doing some segmented turning.

This is my 5th effort over the past 2 months. It is made from...

Started doing some segmented turning a few months ago, and came up with the idea of a segmented ring to support the globe after picking up the globe at Aldi's for $50.

It's a 300mm globe, and the...

Very nice piece!

After getting my hands on some cooibah burl recently, I can fully appreciate the effort in your piece.
It would be the hardest timber on chisels that I have worked with,...

I have recently purchased a powered respirator on US ebay.

Cost was less than Au $160. delivered.

The link is
Neoterik Permissible Powered RESPIRATOR Mask Filter Sys - eBay Protective...

Have you tried casting resin to fill with?
And then top coat afterwoods with a 2 pack like wattyl.

That's what I am currently doing with a cedar oblique slab for a coffee table.

Only problem...

Small world,

I drove through Tevan yesterday on my way to Alstonville to pick up Some cedar logs and a beautiful big cedar burl I bought on ebay.

Maybe Barry and Don (being local) or anyone...

Average weight for a male mastiff is about 80kg or 180lb.

Ever seen the movie "Sandlot Kids" ?
He was 143kg
However that size is a freak.
I have bred mastiffs and used a stud dog from Sth...

Here's my big baby..........

English Mastiff, bloody big 80kg baby!
Had them for 25 yrs, excellent family dogs.

The biggest one is over 150kg!