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Everyone liked the blue brick bowl, so here's another one from a different... "angle"... ;)
Even before I posted the first blue brick bowl, I knew I wanted to try out sometime similar but with different patterns; the brick effect with the transparent resin just looks awesome! A lot of people on reddit suggested wavy wood patterns, herringbone patterns, and I totally agreed that they would all look really cool. I really wanted to try out herringbone first, but I ultimately came to realize that the core of what makes herringbone look great is the stacking of wood layers, and if I were to do one "layer" of herringbone and one layer of resin, it would really take away from the overall look. Instead, I went with the next best thing and chose do this in a chevron pattern.
I decided to make this out of maple. For the individual pieces, I first marked out 45 degrees with my angle finder and then cut them out just with a handsaw. I then trued up the ends to a more precise and flat angle with the angled fence on my disc sander. These were then glued together into 5 separate pieces of chevron with wood glue. To avoid any glue leakage, I tried to only use just enough glue to get a decently strong bond; the resin was going to add far more support than any amount of wood glue I could use anyways. Once these cured over 24 hours, I hot glued the 5 pieces down to a piece of foam core and built a mould around them. For the resin, I used SquidPoxy's Squid Cast for it's really long work time. My thought on this was as follows: for my previous brick bowl, I noticed that the oak bricks were bleeding air bubbles for quite a while before I ever even put it into the pressure pot, and it made me wonder if the pot was even necessary; with an open time exceeding 10 hours, surely all the air in the wood will have escaped? More on this in a moment.
For the colour, I wanted something to contrast with the light maple, and so I went with a really dark purple. This took a fair bit of mixing with the alcohol inks I have as I don't have a spectacular purple. Once poured, I left this to cure for about 5 days outside of the pressure pot, and unfortunately, I did wind up with a fair bit of bubbles. These were all located right near the maple wood. Lesson learned. Even with a working time of more than 10 hours, you still need a pressure pot to get a bubble-free casting. That, or I should have at least tried to seal the wood before doing my pour.
Once cured, I removed the piece from the mould, mounted it onto my lathe with a waste block, and turned the outside of the bowl/plate (it's pretty shallow, so you can be the judge of whether this counts as a bowl or not). As usual, I wet sanded it up to 3000 grit and finished it with Yorkshire grit's microfine polishing paste before spinning it around and mounting it onto my scroll chuck. I then turned out the inside and did the exact same finishing steps here.
I'm loving these "brick" projects. What patterns would you suggest I try next?
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Key equipment/products I used:
Rikon 70-220 VSR Midi Lathe: www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/...
Woodstock 1/2 inch bowl gouge: www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005...
Hamlet 1/8 inch parting tool: www.elitetools.ca/en/product/...
CA Technologies Resin Casting Pressure Pot: www.finishsystems.com/product...
SquidPoxy Squid Cast: squidpoxy.ca/collections/thic...
Yorkshire Grit: www.woodsleesummercraft.ca/pr...
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Almost Too Easy - Tomas Skyldeberg
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Fall into Place - Daxten
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