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Figured Olive wood bowl with turquoise inlay

Completed Olive bowl with turquoise


Surprise,  It had a baby....





Mounted with revolving tail stock.
 Figured Olive wood bowl with turquoise inlays and a live edge. wood turnings, using a lathe, you can see mounted in a nova chuck. On the outside, I have filled the inclusions with real turquoise stone, and using "CA", thick glue to fill the recesses over the the turquoise and the entire exterior.  I have used my shop made carbide chisel to remove the high portions of stone, and a lot of sanding to follow, starting with 150 grit. This will take at lease 10 3" disk on my air powered angle sander. I then will sand up to at least 800 grit, followed by my mixture of shellac/alcohol/ walnut oil.
Her you see the bowl with patches of "CA" glue as I add turquoise. 



Her is the picture of the preliminary shape with the tenon, before it went into an air kiln. It did warp a little, as suspected.






Here you can see it remounted with tail stock in place, and I have cored it, in order to get another smaller bowl, less waste you know....
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