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Wobbly Finishing
Try hand finishing.
Anonymous wrote: I just turned my first bowl (yay!) and all has gone pretty well until now. I seem to have turned the sides too thin. They have a bark inclusion and the mix of hard & soft places on them has left me with a slightly out of round condition. For the most part that has presented no real problem but now I am having a difficult time finishing it. It's a piece of maple about 6" dia. and about 2" high. I've tried CA and it looks fantastic all the places the sand paper can hit. I then gave shellac (1# cut) a trial. Ooooh shiny! But the shellac 1) streaks and 2) suffers the same problem with unevenness. Is this bowl beyond hope or is there some crafty technique that, once mastered, will let me finish and wobbly bowl I encounter for the rest of my troubled life? I'm leaving this thing on the chuck for now ... which means I am waiting for answers from the newsgroup before I can start the next bowl. Bill |
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For something the size of a bowl I find it easier to use a wipe on finish,
like danish or tung oil finishes, off of the lathe. They are pretty fool proof, apply liberally, wipe off. Apply coats until you are happy with the sheen, oh, and sand between coats with a brown paper bag. Tony Manella ndd1"at"prolog.net (remove "at") http://home.ptd.net/~ndd1/ Lehigh Valley Woodturners http://www.lehighvalleywoodturners.com/ "Anonymous" wrote in message newsan.2004.09.07.21.27.30.516072@notarealserver .com... I just turned my first bowl (yay!) and all has gone pretty well until now. I seem to have turned the sides too thin. They have a bark inclusion and the mix of hard & soft places on them has left me with a slightly out of round condition. For the most part that has presented no real problem but now I am having a difficult time finishing it. It's a piece of maple about 6" dia. and about 2" high. I've tried CA and it looks fantastic all the places the sand paper can hit. I then gave shellac (1# cut) a trial. Ooooh shiny! But the shellac 1) streaks and 2) suffers the same problem with unevenness. Is this bowl beyond hope or is there some crafty technique that, once mastered, will let me finish and wobbly bowl I encounter for the rest of my troubled life? I'm leaving this thing on the chuck for now ... which means I am waiting for answers from the newsgroup before I can start the next bowl. Bill -- http://cannaday.us (genealogy) http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening) Uptimes below for the machines that created / host these sites. 17:21:02 up 28 days, 1 min, 4 users, load average: 0.34, 0.21, 0.11 17:08:00 up 125 days, 1:09, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 |
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