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

Blog entry by Tim & Candy Hicks posted 164 days ago 308 reads 0 times favorited 3 comments Add to Favorites Watch
« Part 3: Turquoise in the base Part 4 of Burled Juniper Log Floor Lamp series Part 5: Completed Lamp »

Here are progressive pictures as I am inlaying turquoise in the lamp.

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


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a1Jim

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posted 164 days ago

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

posted 163 days ago

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!).

d.

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

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Tim & Candy Hicks

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posted 163 days ago

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

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