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    Ornaments

    Getting ready for the Holiday season with some ornaments. Our club has an ornament exchange at it's December meeting, a local Arts Center is having a fund raiser and looking for local artist to donate ornaments to be auctioned off. Just trying to get ahead of the season rush. They include two Sputnik Urchin ornaments one with black dyed Maple finials and one with black painted finial, a mushroom shaped urchin ornament with black dyed Maple finial and a bell ornament, painted black and accented with iridescent paint.

    Bobby
    Louisiana
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    Very nice work!
    The sputnik shells are pretty tough but the urchin ones can be rather thin. Do you reinforce them at all? I have heard of some people putting non-expanding foam spray in them and also painting with epoxy. I've done neither but they are fragile.

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    Really nice work, inspiring.

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    I coat the inside with several coats of Mod Podge and spray lacquer on the outside.

    Bobby
    Louisiana

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    Cant walk, Running, Christmas Time's a Coming! Those are excellent!
    Best Regards, Maurice

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    Very nice work Bobby, especially on the finials! Really well done. You could give classes on finials
    Don't let it bring you down,
    It's only castles burning,
    Just find someone who's turning,
    And you will come around

    Neil Young (with a little bit of emphasis added by me)

    Board member, Gulf Coast Woodturners Association

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