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01-27-2015, 01:40 AM #1
Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing.
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01-27-2015, 04:31 AM #2
An pixel just showed that if you turn lignum at the right speed, with special silver bullet tipped tools, with a little bit of mountain stream water sprinkled on it turns into a nice coors light shape. . No in all seriousness that is a gorgeous brush. 28mm!
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01-27-2015, 05:20 AM #3
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Thanked: 13234Funny how so many of us that turn/make brushes all have a personal one out of Lignum hehehehe
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01-27-2015, 06:27 AM #4
The late Bill Jack who made me a few brushes over the years told me all his brushes and bowls including this set he made were all made from lawn geen bowling balls, and quite a few of the early ones had a nice Ivory disc either end he always raved about how nice the wood was to turn, here's one he made for me a Simpsons Chubby clone including matching bowl a Chubby 1.5 with a two band 24mm knot with a 46mm loft.
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01-27-2015, 03:53 PM #5
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Thanked: 45Thanks for all the praise guys. Lignum is indeed a joy to turn, really to work with in all applications. I love that you can just sand it to a pretty high grit and take it right to the buffer! I did a run of forge-scale friction folders a while back with lignum scales
Had to take pixel's advice and wipe all the lignum down with acetone before gluing. One of the many pieces of wisdom I've picked up.Let me know if you need any help with shaving, honing, etc.
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01-27-2015, 04:04 PM #6
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01-30-2015, 03:07 AM #8
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Thanked: 2284This is saw dust from a fresh cut Lignum Vitae lawn bowl. I left it in the sun for an hour and this is what happened. The oil in the wood oxidised and turned green. I pushed some off the top to show the stuff below, which had not been exposed. Pretty cool it happens so fast.
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01-27-2015, 04:14 PM #9
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Thanked: 45Let me know if you need any help with shaving, honing, etc.
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01-27-2015, 04:22 PM #10
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Thanked: 2027Real lignum is truley one of the great woods,be carefull in buying it,Verawood and argentine so called lignum are advertized as lignum.
They are not.CAUTION
Dangerous within 1 Mile