Vaughn | January 29, 2011
Back in June 2010 at a show I did in Malibu, some guy came up to me in the booth and gave me a piece of wood. He said it was a Manzanita burl that had been burned in one of the Malibu wildfires. Sure enough it looked like a half-burned log out of a [...]
Vaughn | February 6, 2010
This is the big ash piece I showed progress pics of in the last blog entry. It ended up about 16 1/2” wide and 9” tall to the highest tip of the edge. It’s finished with natural Watco Danish Oil, and hand-buffed lightly with a white synthetic abrasive pad. It ain’t perfect, but I’m pretty [...]
Vaughn | January 24, 2010
I usually don’t show a lot of progress pics, but the piece I turned last night was kinda interesting, so I figured I’d share it. Pardon the overabundance of photos. I started out with a piece of dried ash from recent ‘Going Out Of Business’ giveaway at a local firewood lot. This chunk had a [...]
Vaughn | January 22, 2010
Wednesday night I was turning a big ash bowl and I started hearing a ticking sound. I stopped the lathe, and did some investigating. I’ll let the pics tell the story… This was some of the wood I picked up a week or so ago at the local firewood lot. (I had thought it was [...]
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