Tuesday, September 29, 2020

How to make a pine cone and resin pendant - Woodturning

 






















Tools and materials I propose:

Vacuum chamber kit

Buffing kit

Resin

Lathe

Wood turning tools set

Chuck kit

Mini machinist’s lathe


In this video I create a pendant out of a pine cone and epoxy resin. This project was mostly woodturning but I also used my mini machinist's lathe to make a small brass hanger. 


I begun by sanding the pine cone on my belt sander. I did this to fit the cone into the mold better. I used a small wood block and a rubber band to keep the cone from floating into the resin. 


I mixed my resin and added a drop of green pigment.  Then I degassed the resin in the vacuum chamber.


I like to keep small blocks of wood that fit my chuck from my old turning projects. So I used a block like that to glue the blank on and then turned it on the lathe. 


Most of the turning for this project was done with a round scraper which worked really nicely with resin. 


I dry sanded from 100grit to 320. Then I wet sanded with soap water from 400 to 1000grit. I used fine and super fine abrasive pastes for the polishing. To use the paste I set my lathe at it’s lowest speed and used a paper towel. When the paper does not catch paste anymore I am done. 


I then parted the piece off the lathe and used my bowl bottom cleaning jaws to clear and polish the other side of the pendant. 


Finally I did the final polishing with my buffing wheel system. 


I made a small brass hanger with my mini machinist’s lathe. I then epoxied the hanger in place and my pendant was ready.


It came out really nice but that was it. See you soon with a new project video. 


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