...I was at long last able to set up the lathe on my balcony yesterday and have some brush handle-making fun. Reason #87 for getting the heck out of an apartment and into a house: seasonal woodworking restrictions.
Anyway, this will hold one of the 30mm high mountain white knots that have been taunting me since last fall. It's a big 'un. :)
Walnut, copper, faux ivory, finished in tung oil (2 coats on so far, many more to follow). What looks like a crack in the back there is just a bit of epoxy that dribbled there when I was gluing a dowel down through the centre.
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Many thanks to Bill (pixelfixed) for the knowledge he has shared along the way. I would not likely have thought of stacking material like this without it, and had I actually thought of trying it, I probably would not have got it right. :chapeau