"One Piece Pine Bark Box" --by RusticWoodArt

Frank, I was wondering what happened to this project. I thought that maybe you had abandoned it. I like the colors and the way they play with the bark of the Pine. Tell me more about the lacquer, please. I’ve experimented with lacquer from an auto accessory shop. The lacquer was contained in a pressurized can. What do you use?

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

Frank, excellent project. Thanks for the detail in your description. I found your handmade auger very interesting. The colored stripe really adds a nice detail to the box.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

and yet another piece of art unfolds in Frank’s talented hands.

Don’t know if I could let something wait so long between stages… I know, I know: patience is a virtue…

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

The ”grand finally” turned out to be another beautiful creation.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Hi Don;
—-sorry for taking so long to get back to you, but I’m getting busy around here lately at the farm, workshop and in the woods.

I don’t use lacquers much anymore since most of my lacquer use in the past was for traditional wood working cabinets, which I mainly mixed and sprayed with lacqure or the polys. Lacqure has such a high sheen that with rustic furniture and sculpture work I tend to find that what folks want is the wood feel of hand rubbed oiled wood. If I need to put more protection on the wood I now tend to always use hand rubbed varnish, which I find is to my way of thinking a far more superior finish. Rather then set up for using a spray gun for this project I chose to go with (5) coats of srayed on lacqure out of a can by Deft. The choice to use lacquer in this project as I was saying was to get that fast set up and dry time.

I have used the varnish on one previous colored pencil project, but then varnish is much slower on the dry time.

If I’m doing a really large project anymore that the customer wants done in lacquer I now go to a friends shop and use his spray booth and talents.

GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

That’s some great color you can get with colored pencils. I’ve seen some of (NH’s own) Jon Brooks? (methinks) work at the Currier in Manchester. The two of you are the only ones I’ve seen using colored pencils in woodworking. Makes me want to experiment with those (and all the other art supplies I have kicking around since my college days)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Hi Scott;
—-yes, the use of colored pencils has really been around for some time and in many uses.

I still do on occasion use colored pencil to fill the scratches in wood work casings, such as trim work before the finish in older restoration work. Also on some furniture where I am using old barn boards or where the wood has aged to grey and I need to cut, well again by using many shades of colors I can achieve a close to aged grey. Works for me! The use of colored pencils in ‘wood art’ is still one that I am in learning curve with, although that one photo above, I have shown and have recieved many good comments about, however it became a gift for someone and they now possess the work. I am planing on doing a sculpture this year where I am going to finish the wood in colored pencil.

I believe that Jon Brooks is now showing a piece in Concord and I also know of a place over in upstate NY where his work is on display at a gallery.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Frank, I like to use shellac as well. I have available from a local supplier, shellac that has a hardener added to it, called simply hard shellac (when you get to this page, click on the name in the left hand column.) It really gives the best of both worlds, all the fast drying and rubbing properties of shellac, and almost as much durability and moisture resistance as a polyurethane.

He can be contacted in a variety of ways.
Email: ubeaut@ubeaut.com.au

He notes ”It is often extremely hard to get time to answer emails and very, very time consuming when we do eventually get to them. If you want a fast, reliable reply, please phone us with your questions, problems etc. Otherwise it may take many days to get an answer to your email.”

Phone/Fax Australia:
03 5221 8775 PREFERRED METHOD OF CONTACT - KEEP IT SHORT - We are a small and extremely busy manufacturing business and our time is very precious to us. We are more than happy to assist if you have a genuine inquiry. Please keep it short and to the point. Your inquiry will be dealt with quickly and professionally.

Phone/Fax International: +613 5221 8775

I’m not sure whether he distributes his hard shellac in the US, but here’s the US Retail distributors.

NUFFSAID WOODWORKING
2510 West Main Street Ionia MI 48846
Phone: 616 527 2147

MI - Grand Rapids
WOOD SOURCE, INC
2715-29th Sreet SE, Grand Rapids MI 49512
Phone: 616-285-0600 Fax: 616-285-0172

MO - Pittsburg
THE WOODEN POST
HC79-BOX 3369 Pittsburg MO 65724
Phone: 417-852-7126

NC - Tyrone
PACKARD WOODWORKS
646 North Trade Street Tryon NC 28782
Phone: 800-683-8876 Fax: 828-859-5551

NE - Lincoln
HARDWOOD HEAVEN
3822 South 14th Street Lincoln NE 68502
Phone: 402-423-5993 Fax: 402 423 6337

OH - Hartville
HARTVILLE TOOL
940 West Maple Street Hartville OH 44632
Phone: 330-877-4685 Fax: 330-877-4682

PA - Philadelphia
PENN STATE INDUSTRIES (RETAIL ONLY)
2800 Comly Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154
Customer Svc & Orders Toll-Free: 800 377-7297 Tech Support Toll-Free: 800 656-4767
Local phone: 215 676-7609 Fax: 215 676-7603
Web Site: http://www.pennstateind.com/
E-mail: psind@pennstateind.com
Retail suppliers of Shellawax,
Shellawax Cream & EEE-Ultra Shine.

UT - Provo
CRAFT SUPPLIES - US
1287 East, 1120 South, Provo Utah 84606
Phone: 800-551-8876 Fax: 801-377-7742

TX - Lubbock
ACACIA HARDWOODS INC.
4614 FM 1585 Lubbock, TX 79424
Phone: 806-794-5099 Fax:806-794-3955

WV - Parkersberg
WOODCRAFT SUPPLIES CORP
1177 Rosemar Rd Parkersberg WV 26102
Phone: 800-225-1153 Fax: 304-428-8271

WA - Sumner
SUMNER WOODWORKER STORE
908 Cherry Avenue Sumner WA 98390
Phone: 253-891-9413 Fax: 253-891-1753

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

Was shuffling the site and saw this classic Frank. I love boxes of all kinds and this one is truely amazing. To see beautiful art in everything that surrounds us is a innate gift that you really have Frank. Thanks for sharing this and I look forward to seeing more.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.