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.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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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-- If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?

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