Author: Clayton

Stick 19 ready to sand/finish

Stick 19 ready to sand/finish

Purple Object Ball Eater is 18.9 ounces and 60.5 inches. It looks as if the butt is much longer than the shaft, but part of that is the joint protector. It’s waaaay long and will be cut back. Won’t fit a bag. Bus aside from that, the butt is longer, and this stick has a […]

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Stick 14 glued and named.

Stick 14 glued and named.

The less degraded wood took less dye and resin, and remains yellowish/orangish. The rest took a lot, and some places are so porous they are yet to be filled. That’ll happen with epoxy containing green mica, which autocorrect wants to be mice. 52 inch, probably around 19 ounces, carbon fiber shaft, hickory/maple core. Oh yeah… […]

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Stick 3 holes filled

The blue wood is maple, with dye added to the stabilizing resin. The adjacent wood is black cherry with significant red rot. The purpose of the first coat of epoxy is to fill the holes that remain after the stabilizing resin did its best to restore physical integrity to the red rot. Keep in mind […]

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Stick 17, Plain Ash Stick, glued

Stick 17, Plain Ash Stick, glued

Yeah, the stick is glued… but look at this eye!! The stick is spalted ash with no dye. Ash is naturally porous. Like stick 19, which is purple, stick 17 has knots that look like eyes with pupils. The completed stick will feature natural pink and black pigments left by the fungi that worked over […]

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Stick 19 gets a deep purple bath

Stick 19 gets a deep purple bath

The idea is to fill the pores with epoxy that augments the color scheme…. in this case, purple so heavy it looks black. Almost all comes back off. This stick will be sane back to wood, all the way up to 4000 again, then coated with 2 layers of clear epoxy, then 15 of CA.

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