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I had made a few candle holders last christmas as gifts and even though they turned out nice, I felt that I could do better. So after the first of the year, I worked on a new design with a little more character. It was also an opportunity to try out my new band saw.
The first picture is maple and jatoba and the second is maple and padauk. I also use walnut and purpleheart on the same design. They are finished with General Finishes Arm R Seal. I buy the glass votive holders at Michael's. I have searched all around the Internet and have not found these for anywhere near the 99 cents they sell them for. A few months ago, they had a buy one, get one free and I bought all they had (over 60).
I got lucky with the figured maple. When I walk into my lumber supplier, I tell them what I need and they forklift a pallet out to the floor and I pick through the boards until I find what I want. I was looking through the boards one day and spotted heavy figure on the bottom of the stack boards. After a lot of unstacking and restacking, I walked out with 70 board feet of tiger stripe soft maple for the price of standard maple. Some of this went into these candle holders.
The first picture is maple and jatoba and the second is maple and padauk. I also use walnut and purpleheart on the same design. They are finished with General Finishes Arm R Seal. I buy the glass votive holders at Michael's. I have searched all around the Internet and have not found these for anywhere near the 99 cents they sell them for. A few months ago, they had a buy one, get one free and I bought all they had (over 60).
I got lucky with the figured maple. When I walk into my lumber supplier, I tell them what I need and they forklift a pallet out to the floor and I pick through the boards until I find what I want. I was looking through the boards one day and spotted heavy figure on the bottom of the stack boards. After a lot of unstacking and restacking, I walked out with 70 board feet of tiger stripe soft maple for the price of standard maple. Some of this went into these candle holders.