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Woodturning | The Wood Brick Bowl
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Today's video:
I've seen a number of pieces that have imitated a brick look using wood (some also use resin as a sort of mortar), and they've inspired me to try it out myself. For this project, I took a long strip of oak that was 0.5" thick and 1.75" wide and sawed it into many ~1.5" long wood bricks. I then hot glued them to a piece of foam core while using a thin strip of wood (0.25" thick) to maintain an even distance between all the pieces. Foam core walls were added to make a mould. Because I was going for a transparent look, I REALLY didn't want any bubbles in this casting. For the seal coat, I used SquidPoxy's Squid Cast, which isn't exactly meant for this purpose. It's extremely thin, almost like water, with a very long working time, and so, unfortunately, most of the resin dripped off the wood before curing. Thankfully, it didn't end up being a big issue. Once it reached a gel consistency, I poured the rest of the epoxy, again using SquidPoxy's Squid Cast, mixed with blue alcohol ink. I let the entire cast cure in a pressure pot for 72 hours, and despite my less than stellar sealing job, I'm happy to say it came out virtually bubble free! I then demoulded the piece, cut the corners off to spare my cutting tools, and tossed it on the lathe. Although my initial goal was turn it down to a bowl, I really didn't cast a very thick piece (again, only about 2 inches thick), so it wound up being somewhere between a bowl and a plate. For both top and bottom, I sanded the piece up to 3000 grit and finished with Yorkshire Grit's micro polishing paste.
If I were to do things differently:
This is probably my favourite piece I've done to date, and I honestly wouldn't change much of what I did. The only thing I wish I could have redone is the depth of the bowl. This was my first time successfully pulling off a mortise, and since I wasn't used to the technique, I thought I was getting closer to cutting through the bowl while turning out the top than I actually was. In the end, the bowl came out quite a bit thicker than what I'd been going for. Then again, I do like bowls/plates to have some thickness, so I'm not really upset.
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Key equipment/products I used:
Music provided by Epidemic Sound
Paradisio - Sum Wave
Perfect Colours - Tomas Skyldeberg
Weekend Love - Tomas Skyldeberg
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Today's video:
I've seen a number of pieces that have imitated a brick look using wood (some also use resin as a sort of mortar), and they've inspired me to try it out myself. For this project, I took a long strip of oak that was 0.5" thick and 1.75" wide and sawed it into many ~1.5" long wood bricks. I then hot glued them to a piece of foam core while using a thin strip of wood (0.25" thick) to maintain an even distance between all the pieces. Foam core walls were added to make a mould. Because I was going for a transparent look, I REALLY didn't want any bubbles in this casting. For the seal coat, I used SquidPoxy's Squid Cast, which isn't exactly meant for this purpose. It's extremely thin, almost like water, with a very long working time, and so, unfortunately, most of the resin dripped off the wood before curing. Thankfully, it didn't end up being a big issue. Once it reached a gel consistency, I poured the rest of the epoxy, again using SquidPoxy's Squid Cast, mixed with blue alcohol ink. I let the entire cast cure in a pressure pot for 72 hours, and despite my less than stellar sealing job, I'm happy to say it came out virtually bubble free! I then demoulded the piece, cut the corners off to spare my cutting tools, and tossed it on the lathe. Although my initial goal was turn it down to a bowl, I really didn't cast a very thick piece (again, only about 2 inches thick), so it wound up being somewhere between a bowl and a plate. For both top and bottom, I sanded the piece up to 3000 grit and finished with Yorkshire Grit's micro polishing paste.
If I were to do things differently:
This is probably my favourite piece I've done to date, and I honestly wouldn't change much of what I did. The only thing I wish I could have redone is the depth of the bowl. This was my first time successfully pulling off a mortise, and since I wasn't used to the technique, I thought I was getting closer to cutting through the bowl while turning out the top than I actually was. In the end, the bowl came out quite a bit thicker than what I'd been going for. Then again, I do like bowls/plates to have some thickness, so I'm not really upset.
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Key equipment/products I used:
Music provided by Epidemic Sound
Paradisio - Sum Wave
Perfect Colours - Tomas Skyldeberg
Weekend Love - Tomas Skyldeberg
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