About a month ago I posted a vase turned from a cherry burl I had retrieved from the woods behind my house. There were actually two burls. I turned the larger one but just set the small one aside.
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Growing a bit tired of roughing out green stuff recently, I went back and mounted this one between centers.
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Roughed out what I thought might be a usable shape.
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Turned it around, did a little more refining, then gave it a coat of shellac and put some CA in any cracks since I am pretty slow at hollowing.
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Found plenty of ants inside but that wasn’t all. After sanding the little nub from where I parted it off, I used the airgun to blow off the dust and found myself being mooned.
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I wanted to take a picture of its business end, but sqeezed a little too hard pulling him out. ( the wet spots)
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