Here is my first pedestal, my first HF and my first finial. The pedestal and finial are walnut and the HF is spalted pecan I believe. The HF was made a few weeks ago but seemed kind of boring so when I saw the one posted earlier it gave me the idea to spruce it up. That pecan was a real booger. I guess it was what you call punky? No matter how light my cuts were it still had little pits on it. I tried and tried but you can still see a little of it. When I tried to sand it, it was soft in some places and hard in others so it wanted to turn into an egg. So back to the lathe with the lightest of cuts. Anyway that's the best I could do with this piece of wood. The finials weren't to bad, just time consuming. I really didn't have any idea what to make them look like so I just kept turning until they looked like this.
Any opinions will be greatly appreciated good or bad. Any tips will be greatly appreciated too. Oh yea, the finsh is Tung oil the buffed on the 3 wheel.
P.S. Photo tent should be here next week. Then I'll put up better pics
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