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Well let's see. Hurts my eyes...............the finish could be a little more subdued unless you're trying to have aliens visit.
The rim seems to be a little rough, but you could have been looking for a Rustic look.
The texturing really hides your fantasticly smooth tooling. OOPS, that was positive!
Seems to float, so I believe that it has a foot, but can't see it.
It's soooooooooooo thick sided that you must be expecting it to hold a lot of ice cream.
Hope this "Floats your Boat"
Bruce
"The great thing about Wood Turning is that all you have to do is remove what's not needed to have something beautiful. Nature does tha Hard work."
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Attaboy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not just anyone can spin out an 'Anti-Alien-Mind-Probe'.....
GREAT finish on there! The only thing I can say, based on everyones edjumicated critiques of my work, is it's in 'one-size-fits-all' and not adjustable. Please fix that on the next try, please.
Joe
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Travis, This piece looks a bit Clunky IMHO...Next time for a piece like
this I would go with WD-40 for a low gloss finish.....
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Originally Posted by Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan
Wow, I like it, but I would not put icecream in it, but fill it with hot buttered popcorn!!
Better yet, microwave it first!
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Great form, and that's some mighty impressive aluminum burl, but it looks like you had a lot of chatter from your roughing gouge -- or maybe you ran out of sandpaper. And I've gotta disagree with the WD-40 finishing suggestion. I think it'd look better with a nice 10W40 gloss finish IMHO. Of course, it might already be glossy, and it's just that your photograph is sub-par. It's always so hard to tell with you amateur guys.
- Vaughn
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Ok, brutally honest.....what the hell is it? It looks kinda neato and the fact that you turned it is......................fascinating(?) but I have no idea what it is.
Mark Rios
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Travis I believe your nibbling pin has fallen out of your wobbling shaft, and quite possibly the muffler bearing has siezed up and there was one other thing.........oh yeah your differential is different. Other than that I like it.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]Tom
Turning comes easy to some folks .... wish I was one of them
and only 958 miles SE of Steve Schlumpf
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Oooohhh....I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I gotta git me one of dem-dar Aluminum Burls!!!!! Beautiful form and finish Travis.
Thanks & Happy Wood Chips,
Dennis -
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Travis - Once again you have outdone yourself..And I don't think it looks at all clunkey.
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Travis - I've been away all afternoon and during idle time (from 1PM to 7:30PM) I devoted all of my energies towards this piece. You've certainly got something with extreme marketability and am fervently requesting that you put it up for sale on fleabay. Let the bidding war begin!
Only the Blue Roads
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Atta Boy Travis, that is why you are my hero.
Dick
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I thought maybe the kanutzon valve was stuck, if it was a desiel I'd have to say the jake brake pads were going bad
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Fine looking piece of Alcoa Burl! Almost looks like aluminuminuminuminumi..whatever.
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What I like best about this piece is that for the first time (and probably the last) I think I can get a finish on a bowl to look like a Stinson piece!!!
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This is Ken in Idaho.........looking down.........thinking...Why didn't I think of that?
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....
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