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Well perhaps not so much of the former, but definitely the latter in spades! I’m referring to turning camphor laurel. The (late) evening was spent turning a CL bowl, and the aroma permeated the shed. I had a face shield, and an air filter running, but by the end of the night, I still looked [...]
Filed under: Finishing, Lathe | Tagged: Bowl Turning, Camphor, Glow, Ubeaut | 3 Comments »
Otherwise known as try, try and try again. The timber of this bowl made a recent appearance here, after being bought back from the discard pile (well, not exactly: like many woodworkers I rarely have a discard pile, I have an “offcuts, but I’m sure there will be a future job to use that scrap [...]
Filed under: Lathe, Project | Tagged: Bowl, DVR XP, Nova, Ubeaut | Leave a Comment »
More often than not, probably 9 times out of 10, when I head out to the shed, I have no pre-conceived ideas of what I am going to do out there. Some times I may be doing a bit of clean up, some times a re-organisation, some times nothing more than a beer, listening to [...]
Filed under: Lathe, Shed, Timber | Tagged: Bowl, Timber, Turning, Ubeaut, Whisper | 9 Comments »
It has been out for a little while now, but for those who haven’t seen it yet, Ubeaut have a new product- a foodsafe oil for wooden cooking utensils (chopping boards, salad servers etc), and it would also be suitable as a safe finish for children’s toys if you wanted to maintain a natural timber [...]
Filed under: Finishing | Tagged: Foodsafe, Ubeaut | 6 Comments »
After leaving the Hall Table in the shed for a couple of weeks (or however long it has been), I found the table was still looking a lot duller than I was expecting. On having a closer look, it appeared to have a wax coating over the whole surface, and rubbing through that revealed a [...]
Filed under: Finishing, Techniques, Tools | Tagged: Hall Table, Swansdown, Ubeaut | Leave a Comment »
There is a pen style to suit everyone, from the thinnest slimline designs, through to the bulkiest, heaviest ones. The price can vary from a few dollars to $100 or so, simply for the mechanism. You’d certainly want to be on your turning game when working with the expensive models. There are stacks of different [...]
Filed under: Lathe, Manufactures and Suppliers, Techniques, Tools | Tagged: Abrasive, Accelerator, Acrylic, Bush, CA Glue, Cyanoacrylic, Elegant Beauty, Emperor, Hut, Live Centre, Nova, Pen Mandrel, Pen Mill, Pen Press, Pen Sandpaper, Pen Vice, PPP, Sandpaper, Sedona, Shithot, Sierra, Superglue, Superjaws, Tube Inserter, Ubeaut | 1 Comment »
Sometimes a memory box isn’t important just for what is inside, but the box itself – the materials it is made from have as much significance as the contents. This is one of those boxes, and was one I made as a Christmas present this year for my Mother-in-Law. The request for this box came [...]
Filed under: Techniques, Timber | Tagged: Beading, Crocodile, Dovetail, Gifkins, Leather, Present, Rosenstein, Tung Oil, Ubeaut, Wax | 5 Comments »
Christmas came and went with such a rush, that I completely forgot to even take some photos of the two boxes I made as presents. These are a few photos of one of those boxes (taken by my old man) of the box given to my Mum. The sides are Tasmanian Oak, from Misan Timbers. [...]
Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Timber | Tagged: Box, Dovetail, Ebony, Misan, SITCO, Tasmanian Oak, Ubeaut, Wax | 1 Comment »
A few years ago when I was making my entertainment unit using pine veneered onto MDF (at the time it was what I could afford, and meant I didn’t have to do massive amounts of joinery to get the large panels I needed). At that stage, the company I used (Australian Wood Panels) had an [...]
Filed under: Finishing, Manufactures and Suppliers | Tagged: Cabinet, Dingo, Entertainment Unit, Pine, Ubeaut, Veneer | 3 Comments »
Suppose that is a little misleading – I have made boxes before, but not with an attention to the joint, nor, from memory, with the use of nice timbers and it to have cosmetic appeal as well as a function. Who knows why – I’ve gone as far as proving the joint can be made [...]
Filed under: Finishing | Tagged: Box, Mulga, Swansdown Mop, Traditional Wax, Ubeaut | Leave a Comment »
EEE Ultrashine (pronounced Triple E) was one of those amazing products – a cut and polish for woodturners. The name was a play on Tripoli – the mineral (like talc) that is used as the cutting agent in the wax. Unfortunately, too many out there just didn’t “get it”. Not whether the product was any [...]
Filed under: Finishing | Tagged: EEE, Tripoli, Ubeaut, Ultrashine, Wax | Leave a Comment »
I’m a big fan of the UBeaut range of products – and particularly the Shellawax products. As you may gather from the name, they are a combination of shellac (used for French Polishing) and wax (I also use a lot of UBeaut Traditional Wax, which has a higher melting point than beeswax, which makes it [...]
Filed under: Finishing | Tagged: Neil Ellis, Polish, Shellawax, Ubeaut | Leave a Comment »
