Purple Acrylic polished to 12000 Mico Mesh. I really like the look of this one! SOLD Jatoba (AKA Brazillian Cherry) with homemade friction polish SOLD And a couple of Walnut bracelets also with homemade friction polish SOLD
Curly Maple with a shiny CA finish. SOLD Maple & Yellowheart with a CA finish. SOLD Mesquite with a shiny CA finish. SOLD Corian (The countertop material) Polished to 12000 grit. SOLD Purpleheart with a shiny CA finish. SOLD Zebra Acrylic Polished to 12000 grit. SOLD
I was in Santa Clara last week for training and visited this place. It was like a wood turners Mecca. They also have slabs and lumber, but I've got a local place that does that too. What I don't have is three rows of shelves stuffed with exotic turning blocks! And the prices were great. Global Wood Source Exotics: Lumber & Slabs $123 Claro Guitar slabs Domestics: ($4 per lb Maple burl.) I also hit up their scrap bin and scored a 2x3x12 block of Olive and a small block of zircote for $5 each. A portion of the olive has already been turned into some bottle stoppers. A very cool shop!
Even with the shear number of folks selling woodworking items on Ebay, I still have managed to sell more pens via Ebay in the past 2 months then I ever did from a year of being in a shop. Plus I get more for each item while it cost the end user less! All this because I don't have to split my sales with a shop, or deal with the possible product loss or poor product placement. Just when I thought Ebay was becoming irreverent, it goes and surprises me.
I love the colors on both of these, for different reasons. Yellowheart SOLD is just so happy. It's odd to see such a bright yellow in nature and I have trouble not being awed by it. CA finish. The second is a Redwood Burl. SOLD A beautiful pen, with loads of figure and a grain. CA finish.
I finally got my toggle clamps and digital angle gauge in the mail. The Wixey gauge eliminated all the fiddling and guess work. What a great tool! Soo... cut another 16" chunk of maple and started again down the box making road. Planning to 3/8 I then rebuilt my crosscut sled and tried to eliminate all the slop in it. I added my new Chinese toggle bolts and clamped a stop block at 3". Clamping before had been downright scary with a 3" side and 45 degree bevel. Not anymore. I wrapped a couple pieces of mdf in packing tape as my cauls for the 3/8 box sides. Result? Really nice and tight miters! (a bit of tear out, but I can fix that) Next weekend, on to the spline cutting jig!
