Sycamore Hollow Form

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I’m trying to improve my technique with both turning and finishing. This is another piece of sycamore 6” x4” dyed with red orange and yellow dye. Finished with 7 coats of sprayed lacquer. Hollowed to 3/16”, the shoulder was a touch thinner.

-- Joe

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a1Jim home \| projects \| blog 16851 posts in 472 days posted 28 days ago	Looks great Joe -- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
JC home \| projects \| blog 127 posts in 693 days posted 28 days ago	I love sycamore turnings; nice job! It looks great dyed. The only downside of Syc is that to me it smells like wet dog when working it. Was the dye water based? Did you leave it on to dry or wipe it off? -- JC - Central PA - www.affyx.com
k9smith home \| projects \| blog 8 posts in 40 days posted 28 days ago	The smell hangs around for a while too. It is water based dye and I wiped it off with a wet paper towel after applying it. -- Joe
tomd home \| projects \| blog 216 posts in 666 days posted 28 days ago	Nice color and finish. -- Tom D
scrappy home \| projects \| blog 1618 posts in 326 days posted 28 days ago	Very nice turning. The dye turned out great also. Keep it up. Scrappy -- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!
stefang home \| projects \| blog 1650 posts in 230 days posted 28 days ago	Real nice turning. I like the color and the finish. When I first started turning I got a pretty good hunk of sycamore from a neighbor who had just cut one down. The piece I had was about 5ft long with a diameter of around 12”. I took my chain saw and cut it up into disks about 5” thick for turning. I was amazed when the next day the disks had all cracked radially, so the they were totally useless. Live and learn! -- Mike, American in Norway
MsDebbieP home \| projects \| blog 14159 posts in 1056 days posted 27 days ago	beautiful. It just begs to be touched. -- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)
k9smith home \| projects \| blog 8 posts in 40 days posted 27 days ago	Thanks -- Joe
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