Our pet died in April.....since then, I been working on this urn. That's a 4" square to the left.
Bubbles was 17. She was cremated.
The urn is QSWO, ebony, walnut burl, and Holly stringing.018.JPG021.jpg
The top is solid burl; the base is veneer on the QSWO.
No fasteners-just hot hide glue.
As it came together, I asked my wife-doesn't it look too masculine? She said-no, it's perfect. So I carried on.
The HHG was great because I messed up the 4 point ebony match on one face (brown streaks in ebony required that). When I realized my error, I simply got my WM $10 iron out and fixed it w a hard roller.
Then, the stringing on one of the corners wasn't so great, so I rehydrated/heated that (Weller variable temp solder iron), and inserted a fix. Excellent.
The finish is super blonde dewaxed shellac flakes from Homestead; 3/4#cut. Borg DNA. Then Renaissance wax.
(Once sealed, the tone of the base burl was not quite dark enough, so I ran some tests w some BORG Zar Chestnut oil-based dye (no pigment) and settled on just a slight darkening. Stained the base burl, more shellac, then a couple coats of wax.)
The lining is white felt over a poster board frame w cotton blanket binding @ the top; Green felt on feet.
And, because she was such a Princess-I will give a picture of inside-the top of her urn.
Thanks to everyone who helped me figure out how to do all this-my first HHG and shellac project. (I'm sold.)