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Ash & Stone Bowl

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Just been experimenting with combining wood and stone for the first time. Ash and stone bowl. Pleased with the overall result.

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A stoned bowl Steve,beaut combination it works so well, makes a statement. Great centrepiece. The Moat effect is startling certainly making it so wide a strip of stone, difficult to turn and worth every bit of time it took.

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Nice work, Steve - experimenting and doing something new is brilliant fun!

Thanks Stewart! Loving this woodturning lark and building up my confidence/skill level to a point where I can start to experiment like this... nice to create less firewood now!


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A stoned bowl Steve,beaut combination it works so well, makes a statement. Great centrepiece. The Moat effect is startling certainly making it so wide a strip of stone, difficult to turn and worth every bit of time it took.

Peter.

Thanks Peter! It was a challenge! But took my time planning it out first... as opposed to the usual... looking at a piece of wood and imagining what might be revealed! Lol thanks again for the wonderful comments.


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I agree - looks fabulous. What did you go. Is that crushed stone put into a void? What is the stone you used and how do you deal with any gaps?
 

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Hi Phil

This was a genuine experiment with something I found whilst my wife was looking around hobby craft...

I turned the outside of the bowl as normal and then faced off the top to make it level. Then turned a deep recess to hold the stone effect textured paint. masking off the rest of the bowl, I preceded to build up 20 layers of this textured paint, letting it dry between each coat.... took about a week. Then I turned the central bowl and sides down to be flush with the "moat" and finished with Hampshire Sheen. The effect turned out better than expected and it looks and feels like stone (and I have left enough bulk in the bowl to give it weight).

I have now ordered some crushed stone to try an incorporate it into narrow recesses and also some metal powder to try the same.
 

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Crushed Stone works fine I have a mate who incorporates this natural material in his document boxes made from Burl that has exclusions in it . The infill is impressive.

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The time spent on the inlay has payed off and produces a nice looking bowl
 
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