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Dyeing for Color

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.  I also [...]

Burnt natural edge bowl.

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 the piece [...]

Ebonized Cherry Bowl

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 from [...]

Update on ebonizing wood

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 and demonstrated [...]

Ebonizing

Ebonized Maple Pen

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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 [...]