A couple of months ago a demonstration at my woodturning club prompted me to start experimenting with dyes. Dyeing and coloring is one of those subjects that can be pretty intimidating. There are so many colors out there where do you start? Well, my first step was to buy myself a color wheel.
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I took some pictures of the natural edge bowl I turned in the video “Turning a Natural Edge Bowl”. Burnt natural edge bowl Burnt natural edge bowl As you can see, once again Mother Nature did a beautiful job. The spalting in the sweet gum is amazing. The bark had fallen off Well, I’m still experimenting with ebonizing. I turned the bowl, but left it mounted on the chuck. The rim was ebonized and left to dry overnight. Then I mounted the bowl back on the lathe and took so light cuts on the inner and outer profiles so that I could get a clean transition This is an update to my post on Ebonizing Wood from a couple days ago. In that post I mentioned I was having trouble getting a shine on the aluminum without knocking the ebonzing off. I found the solution. Patience. I was not giving the ebonzing solution time to dry. I made another pen  Ebonized Maple Pen Click to enlarge In the June 2009 issue of Popular Woodworking there was an article by Brian Boggs that really caught my attention. The article was on ebonizing wood. As I read the article I imagined a pen made from ebonized maple inlaid with aluminum. Why not just use ebony? Well, a couple of reasons. Firstly, though not a huge factor when dealing with pen blanks, maple is a lot cheaper. Secondly, maple is a lot easier to work with. Finally, ebony has a tendency to crack and split. I laminated a maple pen blank with some aluminum, turned it and then followed the steps outlined by Brian on ebonizing. The picture above shows the results. Read on to see what is involved and my thoughts. |
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