Sometimes you get lucky

[Jim Keenan]

Sometimes you get lucky. 9in X 3.5 in Norfolk Is. Pine. Heavy spalting and turned to minus 1/8”.

I had roughly shaped the outside and was hogging out some material from the inside when !!Shazam!!, the “malalo” (Hawaiian for flying fish) appeared. I cleaned up and finished the inside and switched back to shape the outside to “save” the figure.

 

[Odie]

That certainly is an interesting piece of wood Cap'n Jim......

Did you put a stain on that?

otis of cologne

 

[Jim Keenan]

Aloha Odie,

There is no stain. This is just a very spalted piece of Norfolk Pine turned very thin (1/8th minus) so it has some transparency. The finish is a combination of BLO and Poly and the piece was submerged for about 12 hours, the excess was wiped off and it was allowed to dry. It was then buffed back to the wood with tripoly and then with white diamond. It was again submerged and the process was repeated until there were no dull spots after buffing. A final coat of carnuba wax completed the process.

 

[Charlie Knighton]

It was again submerged and the process was repeated until there were no dull spots after buffing

me thinks that he probably never counted the repeats, just kept doing it til he was satisfied

very nice 😀

 

[Jim Keenan]

me thinks that he probably never counted the repeats, just kept doing it til he was satisfied

very nice 😀

Thanks Charlie,

You are correct in the counting process. Sometimes after most of the finish is near done, you can treat small areas with a wipe instead of a soak but the dry and polish process remains the same.