| Project by John | posted 548 days ago | 729 views | 3 times favorited | 5 comments |  |
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I actually found some time to turn some Christmas presents before it was to late!! Main wood is paduk. Inlay is 1/16” maple sandwiched between two 1/32” black dyed veneers. The ellipse is cut on a table saw sled at 25 degrees. I don’t cut all the way through the blank so I have some alignment when clamping. All glued with :30 minute epoxy for better end grain adhesion and to reduce glue creep. Turned them with a jacobs chuck, dowel rod and a live center. When I had the boiled linseed oil and super glue finish where I wanted I mounted the turning in a four jaw chuck and cut the stub off and finished.
One down, seven more to finish.
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Dallas
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#1 posted 548 days ago
That’s beautiful. I wish I knew what you were talking about with the finish, but I’m just kind of hanging out here with the rest of the FNG’s using store bought poly and a bit of Mineral spirits.
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ChuckM
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#2 posted 548 days ago
Nice design. Do you have any pix showing the cutting of the blanks/gluing of the inlays?
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jfk4032
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#3 posted 547 days ago
Beautiful work John! I too, would love to see the work in process of the cutting and gluing of the inlays.
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Andy123
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#4 posted 547 days ago
Nice. The knot looks great.
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mgb_2x
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#5 posted 547 days ago
very nice work!
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