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😂 Nice one!

Extreme sanding is also my favorite strategy for the inside of similarly deep forms 😅

Lovely!

Inside of my lathe, where a screw is missing. This screw was supposed to fix the indexing gear.

Inside of the lathe after adding a replacement screw.

The screw which fixes the indexing gear of my lathe became loose over time and disappeared somehow. I ordered a new screw. It was an interesting opportunity to learn about the inner parts of my lathe 😎
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I was in a garden center today ... it turned out that the shape of the flowerpots can be quite intriguing for my inner woodturner 😁

Very promising color mix in my opinion 🤩

A small plate made from some lovely maple and with a rim colored using acrylic paint 😎
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Painting acrylic paint on a round wooden piece before switching on the lathe. This silver coat was one of many coats I tried.

After applying too much silver paint, I got desperate and just pushed the still wet paint around.

Then, I sprayed some water while the piece was spinning.

This led to a very fine texture, which finally pleased me enough to call it a day 😅

Some colorful experiments on the lathe using acrylic paint 🎨
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Thank you!

Thank you!

Removing the excess of the paste. I tried to use some walnut oil, too, hoping to remove the excess easier. I am not sure if that was necessary.

Turning the inner part.

Sanding the outer rim.

Applying hard wax oil at the end.

Some more photos from the production process. (Part 2)

Initial turning.

Brushing the wood.

Dying the wood.

Applying golden paste.

Some more photos from the production process. (Part 1)

A square bowl made from oak. The outer part is dyed, the inner part shows the natural wood colors.

Side view. I sanded the rim such that the oak colors are visible there as well.

This piece took me quite a while to make. It is made from oak, which I brushed, dyed and where I applied golden paste to highlight the grain.
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Lovely design! 🤩

Fascinating work!

Once it was the leg of a cabinet used by my great-grandma. Then, it was left to rot for decades. But now it is reborn as a wooden bell 😎
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Interesting! I will keep your recipe in mind, and will try it one day. Thank you for sharing!

Looks great! How many coats will you apply?

Nice, I am also a big fan of Nick Padulla's work 😊

I had never heard about pine tar before, it would be interesting to try that one day. So many different possibilities 😊

Thank you for sharing! I like the look of your oak sample. I will give it a try one day.

I made the bowl from some old oak board lying around.
The grooves give an interesting feeling when touching them. But I can see that they might be undesirable in some scenarios. I have some plans to char some maple, too 😎

Charring the bowl using a blowtorch.

Brushing the surface. This created an interesting texture with deep rills.

Surface after applying hard wax oil. The shine is pretty nice, especially in bright sunlight.

The edge with the end grain got an interesting rough structure.

I charred the surface of this bowl made from oak. Did I make it better or worse? 😅
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Very interesting, thank you!

That's a lot of lacquer layers 😲. How many do you apply in total?
Very nice mushroom by the way 🤩

Look promising 😊

Here are two more photos from the oiling process. I used hard wax oil.

Top view. I undercut the rim, which turned out very challenging. I need more practice with that...

Bottom view of the bowl, showing the recess used to fix the bowl on the lathe.

The third (and last) bowl I made recently from some alder wood. I am starting to wonder what I should do with all these bowls 😅
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Lathe with the bowl still attached. Lots of beautiful wooden shavings were produced during the course 😅

Top view of the bowl. The rim was first burned with a blowtorch. Later, small grooves were cut with the skew.

Bottom view of the bowl.

Here is another bowl I made last week during a workshop: Alder wood with a burned rim, this time with a bit more unusual design.
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Thank you!