| Project by Jay Neale III | posted 113 days ago | 328 views | 0 times favorited | 6 comments |  |
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Here are a couple of candle holders I made out of the spalted pecan I picked up at the sawyer’s a couple of weeks ago. They are the same size, though the base/feet configuation is different. One of them now belongs to my wife, and the other is for sale online.
I finished them with two coats of tung oil, one coat of wipe-on gloss polyurethane and three coats of wipe-on satin polyurethane. In my experience the gloss poly dries harder, and the spalted wood is pretty soft, so I used the gloss to strengthen the wood. I could have flooded it with super glue, but it wasn’t that fragile.
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6 comments so far
a1Jim
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posted 113 days ago
simple but nice
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Ben Kahmann
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posted 113 days ago
Simple but nice design. Good finish
-- Ben Kahmann Dayton, OH
Innovator
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posted 113 days ago
The spalted pecan has some nice figure to it.
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scrappy
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posted 113 days ago
Nice candle holders. Great spalted pecan.
Keep it up.
Scrappy
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ellen35
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posted 113 days ago
Jay,
That is beautiful wood! The design is simple but elegant.
Should sell easily!
Keep them coming…they are a joy to view!
Ellen
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Tim Marko
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posted 113 days ago
Those are nice Jay. The figure in the first one is outstanding.
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