Burled Juniper Log Floor Lamp #4: Turquoise inlay in the lamp

I was wondering how you inlay the turquoise do you hand carve it or use a router or do you place it in natural defects.The turquoise almost seems powder form, It must be plentiful in your area.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

May I ask (or is it a “trade secret”?) if that is actual turquoise mineral or is it some sort of turquoise colored epoxy, or something else (guessing, here!).

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-- The best things in life aren't THINGS.

We ise natrual defects or cracks that are alread in the wood, then we use a dremel tool to widen them out and clean them up a bit. It is real/natural turquoise. We buy by the pound from a supplier in New Mexico. We pay $160 per lb. It comes in a large chunk and then we crush it. We start out by filling the grooves with larger peices then we fillin the gaps with smaller ones and I also crush it to a fine powder which gets all the liitle nooks and cranies filled

-- Tim & Candy Hicks Custom Log Furniture www.rockymountain-twist.com Dust... What Dust

once the turquoise or malachite is inlayed, does it sand flat? then resealed after that?

thanks great work…