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Good for barbecuing… and looks good sitting atop a wine bottle. Another one of my favorite woods, very hard, but turns so smooth and precious stone like. This piece has a little heartwood and a little sapwood making for one nice looking – almost cork sized stopper.
I had a couple of mahogany blanks prepped to turn, but apparently drilling and tapping the blank made for a loose fit. I guess that wood is a little to soft or weak for that. I’m sure I can come up with a solution to that with a superglue treatment prior to tapping (or re-tapping) ... but until then, I grabbed this block and started from scratch to turn out this beauty. Certainly did not have the same problem with tapping this hard wood.
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sedcokid
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#1 posted 503 days ago
This is a beautiful stopper…..........Do you have it sold?
Thanks for sharing
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#2 posted 503 days ago
Don’t like wine at all, but your stopper is sure nice. Nice job.
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
scottb
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#3 posted 503 days ago
Thanks! Not sold… yet. Will be heading off to the gallery in VT once I make a few more. (unless someone calls dibs ;)
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#4 posted 503 days ago
Another cool stopper.
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