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This vase is a piece of Norfolk Island Pine I picked up at a club meeting, turned wet to about 1/16" to 3/32" thick and left to warp as it wanted. The bottom inch or so of the walls is a bit thicker, about 1/4" or so, since the bottom itself was already pretty thin (about 1/8") and didn't want to blow it up. It's 9" tall and between 6 1/4" and 7" across the top, depending on where you measure. The finish is multiple flood coats of Lee Valley polymerized tung oil thinned 50-50 with mineral spirits. (The Lee Valley stuff is already 50% mineral spirits, so the mix ended up being 25% tung oil and 75% mineral spirits.) I let each coat soak in for a few minutes, then wiped it off with a cotton rag. After the tung oil cured for a few days, it was buffed with PL compound and and waxed with Renaissance Wax. The wood came out nice and translucent (except for the thicker part at the bottom), and the oil seemed to bring out a fair amount of chatoyance.
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Comments, critiques, suggestions, and questions are all welcome.
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Comments, critiques, suggestions, and questions are all welcome.