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In this video I make a unique top out of resin and a piece of spruce.
A long time ago I found a spruce door casing in the garbage.
I turned a piece true on the lathe using my roughing gouge. With a straight chisel I created a dovetailed tenon on one end so I could mount the blank on my chuck.
I then set my lathe at low speed and begun hollowing the blank. I begun with a drill and moved on to forstner bits. I finished hollowing the end grain with my hook tool.
I wanted the wood itself to act as a mold for the resin.
I mixed my resin and de gassed it in my vacuum chamber. I coloured parts of my resin with blue and green dyes. I then used a bamboo kebab stick to try and add some texture in my resin.
Once the resin was fully cured I begun turning the blank on the lathe.
As I was turning I discovered a huge gap in my resin. Probably caused by trapped air. It was impossible to save it, so I cut the resin off. I then I reversed the resin. I flattened both the wood and the resin and glued them together with 5 minute epoxy.
I then used my round scraper and a spindle gouge to shape my top.
I also carefully marked the diameter of the nail’s head.
On the drill press I drilled the hole for the nail which I add in the bottoms of all my tops.
I then sanded the top with 100, 220 and 320 grit sand paper. I begun wet sanding with soap water at 400. I moved on to 600, 800 and 1000 grit. Then I moved on to my micro mesh pads.
At this point I parted the top off the lathe and sanded the handle.
Then I buffed it with my buffing wheel system.
Finally I glued the nail in the bottom of my top with 5 minute epoxy!
Although the texture I wanted to achieve didn’t really came out as I wanted, I think my top is really nice and beautiful.
But anyway, that was it! See you soon with a new project video!
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