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09-09-2007, 02:14 AM
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| Banned  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wynndel, BC, Canada
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|  I Just Had To Try It. I have seen so many nice miniature wood turnings on the internet so I figured it was time to try my very first one. This is bocote wood . It isn't REAL small but is a good starting place to hone my skills a little and make some specialized miniature tools to make some smaller ones. Here is bocote goblet beside a Canadian dime . Or maybe it's an egg cup for a very tiny birds egg . . Hee... Hee  And here is bocote goblet sitting on top of a stick pin (tack)  I was a little amazed at how easy these actually were to make. Sorry about the out of focus pictures. W.Y. Last edited by William Young : 09-09-2007 at 03:10 AM. |
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09-09-2007, 08:57 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wynndel, BC, Canada
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| I tried to get a better picture this morning. This one was taken in the great outdoors. Pretty hard to beat good old natural light. The miniature still shows black but that was because that piece of bocote was almost as black as ebony. W.Y.  |
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09-10-2007, 02:40 AM
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| Retired  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Fergus Falls, MN
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| Nice mini-goblet!!!! And thanks for reminding me how BIG those Canuck dimes are 
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09-10-2007, 04:38 AM
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| Banned Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wynndel, BC, Canada
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| When you have goblets that small you also need a small bottle of wine so you don't waste any while filling the goblet. So I made one of those today as well . It is red wine . . . or is it just that I made the bottle with purpleheart wood so it looks like grape wine hee hee . W.Y.  |
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09-10-2007, 03:25 PM
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| Happy to be here member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MA USA
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| Gosh....you are one talented guy. Such a cute little bottle. WD |
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09-10-2007, 03:54 PM
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| Pajaro Studio Dallas  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: If it ain't Texas, it Just ain't livin.
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| small is small Ya big show off!!!!!! Just kidding. Gee why so small. Great job
__________________ Pajaro Pete Blue Bird of Happiness Member " Scrollsaw Association of the world " Excalibur EX-21 fanatic One of the Chosen few "If you work real hard, and you get everything you've always wanted, is it worth it? Not if your dog doesn't like you" (Charles M Schulz)  |
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09-10-2007, 04:27 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wynndel, BC, Canada
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 I know some have turned miniatutes out of toothpicks so I have a LONG way to go . It was fun trying though. I know a few turners that sell miniatures for big bucks to collectors but their quality is much better than mine. But hey . . its my first attempt so there is hope for me yet . W.Y. | |
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09-10-2007, 05:03 PM
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| Pajaro Studio Dallas Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: If it ain't Texas, it Just ain't livin.
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| Do you still have all your fingers. How did you hold on to it? Cut it out of a big chunk of wood?
__________________ Pajaro Pete Blue Bird of Happiness Member " Scrollsaw Association of the world " Excalibur EX-21 fanatic One of the Chosen few "If you work real hard, and you get everything you've always wanted, is it worth it? Not if your dog doesn't like you" (Charles M Schulz) |
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09-10-2007, 06:21 PM
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| Wanabe scrollsawer  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Nottm
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 | they look just great to me bill, and for your first attempt too, i can foresee lots of great stuff heading our way. i recently turned a vase and a lidded vessel, i also turn the inside of the items too, but always get stuck when trying to flatten the inside bottom of them, i need some sort of scraper tool to flatten it, so if you invent one, please let me know how you did it. |
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09-10-2007, 07:49 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Hammond, IN
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Try using the end of an old file. Carefully grind a bevel on it first.
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