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Ash bowl with liming wax

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Been experimenting today... found an American Ash bowl blank in the shed and tried liming wax for the first time to highlight the grain in white.... work in progress...
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That's looking good Steve. It makes the grain really stand out. Ash is nice ebonised then rubbed with gilt cream to bring the grain out.
It's good to experiment.:thumbs:
 
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Bill Mooney said:
That's looking good Steve. It makes the grain really stand out. Ash is nice ebonised then rubbed with gilt cream to bring the grain out.
It's good to experiment.:thumbs:
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Thanks Bill! Not ebonised anything yet.... adding to the list as we speak!


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OK Steve the turning looks great nice and clean and finished well the only thing I don't like unfortunatley is the shape it is what many discribe as a dog bowl, As Bill said would be better if it was stained or ebonised to show the liming up. With Ash it is such a light coloured wood the liming does seem to get lost a little try something like a piece of darker Oak and you will see what I mean.
Just out of interest did you take the chucking point off
 
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Dalboy said:
OK Steve the turning looks great nice and clean and finished well the only thing I don't like unfortunatley is the shape it is what many discribe as a dog bowl, As Bill said would be better if it was stained or ebonised to show the liming up. With Ash it is such a light coloured wood the liming does seem to get lost a little try something like a piece of darker Oak and you will see what I mean.
Just out of interest did you take the chucking point off
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Thanks Derek.

Know what you mean about the shape... but that's the shape the wife wanted and after nearly 22 years of marriage - I have learnt that she is always right!!

This was my first experiment with liming and I used the first bowl blank I had with a grain that I thought would take it well. Unfortunately I have nothing to ebonise it with, so had to make do with the wood "au natural" so to speak. And it was just an experiment - learning every day!

I have turned the chucking point off this morning. Leaving a small foot - just enough to keep the base off the surface it sits on.

Thanks again for your comments and critique - always welcomed.


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steveisfound said:
Thanks Derek.

This was my first experiment with liming and I used the first bowl blank I had with a grain that I thought would take it well. Unfortunately I have nothing to ebonise it with, so had to make do with the wood "au natural" so to speak. And it was just an experiment - learning every day!

I have turned the chucking point off this morning. Leaving a small foot - just enough to keep the base off the surface it sits on.

Thanks again for your comments and critique - always welcomed.


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Ash is the right type of wood in as much that it has a nice open grain but it does need to be a little darker or even ebonised to do what you want. So anything with a nice open grain works well.
Experimenting is half the fun sometimes it works and other times it just flops as long as you leave the chucking point on until you are happy you can always remount it and try again without losing to much of the original shape



steveisfound said:
Know what you mean about the shape... but that's the shape the wife wanted and after nearly 22 years of marriage - I have learnt that she is always right!!
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Many here know that feeling mate:funny::funny::funny:
 
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