Carribean Stick Update
Gonna add more CA and take it to high grit today, then tidy the ends tomorrow and wax. Meanwhile I’m working on the shafts. Will probably add updates. buffed to 2500 grit
Carribean Stick and Purple Object Ball Eater updates
I don’t like kicking myself in the behind but to be honest, every now and then it happens, and I turn around and I see I was right to do it, so I don’t say anything else about it. 😉 I redid the joint ends on all my sticks in progress. My initial plan for […]
CA glue going on 2 sticks
Purple Object Ball Eater and Caribbean Stick are getting CA glue today. They’ll be shiny tomorrow.
Caribbean Stick Epoxy
First coat on, second to come in an hour. Then 48 hours to cure before sanding, then CA glue, then oohs and aahs. Updated: 3 coats for Caribbean. I wanted it to look deeeeep. A lot of epoxy comes off sanding it down so it’s a perfect cylinder. Uh… Cone. Long coney cylinder thingamabob. #Wordsmith […]
First blue on Carribean Stick
(updated images below…) This will take a few hours, but the first coat is on Caribbean Stick. Others get added on top to deepen and adjust the color. The waves are caused by the wood: curly spalted maple. It’s been stabilized, but the pores are still accepting dye. The darker areas are where the ripples […]
Color test for stick 20
This is a piece of spalted and stabilized maple, the same wood as Stick 20: Caribbean Stick. The shine is 4 coats of CA glue, (not much), a quick wet sand up to 4000, and a topping of turner’s wax. The actual finish will be 2 coats of clear epoxy, 15 CA glue, and cue […]
Stick 20 at final size for coloring
Caribbean stick will be 6 shades of blue. I’ll do color tests and post them, and the stick owner will be able to give feedback on the colors… Til then, Carribean’s got her final shape (except for the final sand, which I’ll do after coloring). All spalted maple (stabilized, meaning, it’s been dried and most […]
#Stick 20 first cuts
Three videos, the first is just a milestone for Karen — your stick getting its first cuts. The second shows a little more of the stick. Third, the joint pin. One appreciates geometry when making sticks out of several pieces of wood. On this video you can see how one section (the part being cut) […]
First commissioned stick: #Stick 20: Caribbean
The client has a color scheme in mind. I’ll be testing my dyes to get as close to her intended palette as possible. The dyes will be applied to the outside of the stick, so the colors will be more consistent across the grain, rather than infused at different rates, and darknesses, according to the […]