bluntchisel
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Hello, Guys,
Today I braved the icy workshop (dressed up like Scott of the Antarctic!) and made one of Dan's Omega rollerballs. I've dressed her in a stick of red meranti. As always, I was stunned at the grain that lies just beneath the surface of this beautiful wood (which came to me free of charge - see footnote).
Finished with grits to 600, grain popped with a wipe of white spirits, six coats of thin CA, and given a little polish.
Footnote; A couple of years ago I was given a pallet which had been used to transport Indian stone. Because the pallet looked to have been made from mahogany I reduced it to the planks, threw away the ruined wood, and kept the rest. The "mahogany" was in fact meranti, and I turn a couple of pens from it every six months or so (I don't have much of the red meranti left so I'm a bit of a Scrooge when using it!) The moral to this is to go out and grab pallets where ever you can legally take them because you never know what you might come across. What is a real sin is that these hardwood trees are felled and then used for packing cases and pallets - what a waste, huh?
Regards to all,
Bob.
Today I braved the icy workshop (dressed up like Scott of the Antarctic!) and made one of Dan's Omega rollerballs. I've dressed her in a stick of red meranti. As always, I was stunned at the grain that lies just beneath the surface of this beautiful wood (which came to me free of charge - see footnote).
Finished with grits to 600, grain popped with a wipe of white spirits, six coats of thin CA, and given a little polish.
Footnote; A couple of years ago I was given a pallet which had been used to transport Indian stone. Because the pallet looked to have been made from mahogany I reduced it to the planks, threw away the ruined wood, and kept the rest. The "mahogany" was in fact meranti, and I turn a couple of pens from it every six months or so (I don't have much of the red meranti left so I'm a bit of a Scrooge when using it!) The moral to this is to go out and grab pallets where ever you can legally take them because you never know what you might come across. What is a real sin is that these hardwood trees are felled and then used for packing cases and pallets - what a waste, huh?
Regards to all,
Bob.