Progress on the stump is going well. For the past week, every evening rather than working out in the cold shop, I have had a comfortable seat on the couch inlaying turquoise and copper. At first I only planned on doing a few inlays, but as the cold weather continued, so did my inlays. This project should be pretty awesome when I’m all done!!
My uncle made me a really handy stone crushing tool that takes the mess out of smashing up turquoise into small pieces and dust.
Once I sand these all down, I will have to go back and fill a few holes that will happen when the sander pulls out a few stones. Then another round of sanding and I will be ready for the oil finish.
-- Juniper Canyon Design
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jaykaypur
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#1 posted 161 days ago
This is gonna really look nice when finished.
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gfadvm
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#2 posted 160 days ago
Coming along very nicely. Love the shop made “rock smasher”. Not sure I see the copper. How do you do that? Copper filings or ???
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Bluepine38
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#3 posted 160 days ago
I like the western motif on your rock crusher, nice and solid also. The wood is looking very nice with the
turquoise setting it off.
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junipercanyon
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#4 posted 160 days ago
gfadvm: I have some pieces of copper flat sheet that I cut small strips off of and lay in the cracks, then fill in around it with turquoise. You can see a little bit of it in the third inlay picture. Once I sand everything down smooth you will be able to see the copper snaking through the stone. I also use a file to make shavings and fill smaller cracks with it. I really like the way copper looks with juniper.
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junipercanyon
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#5 posted 160 days ago
Bluepine38: I’m sure my uncle chose to use the horse shoe for the handle out of convenience rather than style, LOL but I agree, I really like the western motif…..and it works very good.
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gfadvm
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#6 posted 160 days ago
Thanks. I can see where copper would look cool and I suppoose if sealed off from the air it won’t turn green as copper is wont to do.
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