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I had some aluminium savings from my metal lathe. So I decided to incorporate them into an epoxy resin project. I decided to make this mallet. I think it came out pretty interesting.
First of all I placed the metal savings in a plastic cap. Then I mixed some resin and added black pigment. I poured the resin in the cap and the I de-gassed it in the vacuum chamber.
Then I used a wood off-cut that fitted my chuck’s jaws and I epoxied the blank in place. To prevent the piece from moving around while glue up, I used a bamboo stick as a pin.
I did most of the turning using a round nose scrapper. I then Used a centre drill countersink bit to drill the centre. Then I used drill bits and forstner bits to hollow the epoxy head of the mallet.
I then sanded from 100 to 320 dry. I wet sanded from 400 to 1000 grit. Finally I polished the epoxy with fine and super fine abrasive paste.
I parted the piece off the lathe. I then used my bowl bottom chuck and reversed the piece to finish it’s other side.
I then turned a piece of mulberry on the lathe to make a handle. I used the roughing gouge and the round scrapper. I also used a flat chisel to make the tenon. I also used the skew to make the entry points for the wire burning tool.
I epoxied the head in place. The I cut the piece off the lathe and used the belt sander to clean the cut parts.
I finished the mallet with a coat of mineral oil.
Aluminium savings and black epoxy resin worked really nicely together creating a really interesting material.
I am really happy with the way my mallet came out. But that was it. See you soon with a new project video.
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