Red Wood and Green resin Hollow Form

a friend of mine on Facebook contacted me and asked if I could make her a vase or a hollow farm I guess with like the one I just posted this past Friday I think anyways I'll put the link to that one that I'm talking about in the video so a friend of mine Carlisle sent me some red wood the last piece was made with Sequoia unfortunately I don't have enough of that to do another Bowl but he sent me some redwood which is very pretty beautiful it's a little on the punky side on some spots so you could tell by how that is but anyways it will work perfect for casting this is what it looks like I have two pieces so for this project even though I'm gonna put it in the pressure pot I am gonna do two pours maybe even three depending on how much this absorbs the resin I'm gonna use the slow set the three two one and it's because that's what I have the most of and since this is a big pour I'm gonna need as much as I can and I'm going to put it in the pressure pot anyway just because this is a big pour and this is gonna absorb it I figured even maybe in my mind that extra time that it takes to set it will absorb into this punky wood really good so I guess that's just my thinking and the fact that that's what I have so it's the three to one she chose moss green and grass green she wants mostly moss green with a little bit of the grass green in it these colors are in the link to the description below as well they are under color powders for resin under res and supplies I think I have it listed and they until labels just look like this so just so you know grass green and moss green is what colors I'm going to use and get that poured or get this mixed up I should say and then I'll bring you back whenever I'm adding color color yeah so that's that you I did do a second pour on this I just didn't video it because I came out real quick a couple hours later and just checked it and it was really good and soaked up so I did you can almost have a see a witness line in the project but not too much so I was thankful for that I need to learn to turn my drill down a little bit before I start mixing because I always stick it that in there and go full-bore and then resin splatters out it's like it's like you figure out learned by now but oh well it happens you I have to confess with this project I got a lot myself and accidentally drilled a hole in the wrong end it's almost the same diameter the top as it is the bottom but I just wanted that bark and how it was to be at the top of the base so it it did matter for this project so I took it over to my drill press as you seen and just drilled a 55 millimeter hole and just a mortise and and that seemed to hold pretty good it has held a couple other projects pretty good even though it's not cut in a dovetail it held it pretty good so I'm using my bowl gouge instead of a negative rake scraper because I'm wanting to take a lot of material off pretty quickly I know that there's going to be a lot of this resin that I'm gonna have to take away in order to get to the desired shape that I want similar to the other hollow form and so I'm risking you know again the the chipping out of material but I'm too impatient to go easy just to you know string it off versus chip it off and you know sometimes you just get chips even if you are going nice and slow and taking it easy I get chips more so with the irregular carbide bit versus your negative rake the bowl gouge doesn't chip out as bad if you use a regular carbide on this it it's like I don't know it seems like a hammer hit it versus you get pretty good chip out with your bowl gouge if you're not going easy but that carbide tip at least for me is rough rough on it you I hadn't left the bark on this redwood when I casted when I cast it sorry so I'm hitting these spots of bark and it's like fur just like a furry furry bark and because it was so close to the wood the resin didn't you know soak into it all the way just on the surface and it was tough to cut and you have different textures going on there anyway with the density's I should say with the resin then the wood and then there was this fur it was like weird that was in between the the bark and the wood so it it was a little tough to cut and I had to put you'll see throughout me finishing it had to put thin CA on it to stiffen up the fibers of it in order to cut some areas smooth and definitely before I sanded I had to put then say yeah thin CA on it the star bond then because it just was not it was it was weird it was a very strange hairy bark I'm using a regular carbide tip here it's not a negative rake and the reason why is because there was there wasn't a ton of resin in this particular bottom area it was mostly wood it is still chipping it out but I'm trying to take off more material to shape it it took a while to get it down to the shape normally I'll start with the bottom sort of but depending on you know how the top piece is going to be shaped and formed I try to like to get the top piece somewhat around the size of what I want at least you know - a few details and then that way I can visualize the bottom in the top so you kind of just make your top the size you want at the bottom of the size you want it and then connect the dots in between I guess if that makes any sense you I've had several people ask email and here if there was one tool that I couldn't go without that if I could only have one in my shop which one would it be and I would say hands down my Irish granbull couch it is the most versatile in my opinion with my experience tool that I have I will use it for everything until it just won't work for everything and then I will try to make it work for everything it is awesome I love the wings on it because I can hog out a ton of material especially in Greenwood I can take out a ton of material at once and the tip on it makes it possible for final find out details and I love being able to share scrape with it too and get those beautiful small little curly angel hairs I have to confess and I didn't show this in the video because it would have taken up so much time and made this video 45 minutes or longer and I didn't want to torture everybody with that when I cut this mortise it was just fine when I turned it around to hollow it out it cracked and it cracked good enough to where it wasn't stable enough to hollow out so I first recut the mortise deeper so it would be further into the hollow form and have more meat had enough as it was but it just it continued to crack that one weak spot just kept cracking and cracking so I filled the mortise with resin overnight and let it sit have remounted it and cut a new mortise with you know that resin being in there and it cracked again and I was like oh gosh I'm never gonna be able to get this thing mounted on the lathe so they didn't crack too bad the second time and or the third time I should say so what I did is I just kind of repositioned it differently in the Chuck so that away the pressure wasn't on that crack in a specific way and I'm sorry I didn't show that problem-solving you know portion of this it just would have taken you know so much time there was just so many steps and so many things involved I figure just tell you that being said that's the reason why I decided not to hollow it out as deep I know you guys can't tell or see it but I didn't hollow it out as deep as I could have because of the fact that was you know the bottom was weaker and I just I wanted to be able to get this thing finished so I decided to leave it's probably about a they are one inch thick the very very bottom to help keep that meet you know in there and not make that crack you know more vulnerable to cracking more until I could get resin inside and on the outside you the tip on my hollower is not a negative rake it as a regular you know tip carbide tip so I kept feeling the closer I'd get to the resin I kept feeling this weird drag and a lot of that also was from the furry bark so I kept stopping as it it would just start feeling different and that carbide does once it hits that resin it just it it just chunks it out so be careful if you're using a regular carbide tip and and hollowing out with it with resin projects you'll tell when you start getting into it because you didn't feel it grab differently you at this time I was I wasn't really planning on putting resin on the outside of the piece I was just gonna re sand it again because after all that all the issues of getting it remounted the outside finish had been pulled all up so I'm just planning on Rees anding it and polishing it with OB shine juice and whatnot but I decided because of that crack that resin would be good because then it'll help seal up the crack it was a huge crack but it was enough to where I just you know I wanted to seal it so here I'm putting CA glue on those fuzzy bark pieces so I can continue sanding because it just it just sticks up and there is no I guess if I can imagine what it's like to turn a palm tree because palm trees have it's just fibers just like straw so that's what that was so I decided that I was gonna go ahead and Reese and the outside and then coat it all with resin and apparently I didn't get enough of the wax that I had applied before on it off because my first coat of resin and I'll show that in a short video and talk about it a little more had separated like oil and water so I hadn't erased the end it on the outside and then put another coat which that ended up working out just fine but I'm using the two-two-one fast hardener for this and I had left it overnight I let it I kept it going the slowest speed on my lathe and it just seemed to work out better using my my hand with the glove it just that brush kept falling apart and all the bristles were coming off at me I decide and that's so frustrating because I was just picking up bristles so I abandoned the brush idea and just dip my hand in there and apply it with my hand and that seemed to work much better I could feel the smoothness of it you can feel where the resin is and where the resident resin isn't I should say so I you know hey that's why I just used my hand and I did for the second coat as well I didn't use any special brushes and it looks like the lathe is going really fast because the video sped up but it's only going about 50 to 60 you know rpms while I'm applying this just so you know it has to be sped up otherwise this video would be 2 hours long so I'm going really slow it's not that fast and I left it spinning for about I don't know 20 minutes or so until the resin got tacky enough to where it wasn't moving anymore because this fast set it doesn't cure within 15-20 minutes it says 10 minutes to get like techy I guess but it takes about 2 3 hours for it to be no more longer sticky so I didn't video it because I came out here this morning really quick before starting school with the kids and wet-sanded from 320 to 400 which I just lightly sanded it after the epoxy dried and I applied another coat I'm getting a weird separation down here and I think it may because of wax or something that I had applied before so I'm hoping this time it smoothes it out it was really Ripley when I came out this morning so that's why I didn't just scuff it to add a coat I had to actually sand it to flatten that Ripley I was getting in here and it wasn't from it just separated like oil and water kind of look so that's what I just did sorry I didn't record that process but I wet sanded it 320 and then 400 just the outside the inside is fine I just put another coat of resin in there it's kind of hard to get that all smooth in there anyway so the resin will help make it smooth so that's that and hopefully I put you use the fast set again so what I'll probably do is come back out in another couple hours and see if it's separated again or not if it is then I will probably wet sand it with my micro I didn't have the wet sand it I just was able to use the Novus Novus plastic polish the fine grit on it and it just polished it right up and ended up perfect so I was glad I didn't have to go through all that again I have a special prayer request if you don't mind for Chris Walters he's struggling some with some loss and I like for you to lift him up but thanks for watching everybody and I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving god bless

Channel: Kim Tippin Wood Turning

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Keywords: wood turning, women wood turning, resin art, wood turning wet green wood, kim tippin, turning wood, wood art, wood pottery, wood lathe, wood and resin art

Id: 20ZwbjhZzDQ

Length: 18min 36sec (1116 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 29 2019