Post #790185 by TheBigT on Tue, Sep 25, 2018 7:33 PM

Sure sucks how fast this summer seemed to fly by! It hasn't been a very productive one. I had a few done a few practice panels for the Lei Low bar early in the summer. This one was the first one. I cleaned it up and threw some stain on it. Came out better than I expected.

Every once in a while I knock a few chips of this log. Been working on this Ku off and on for a few years now.

But the fact that its ready for final sanding can't be denied much longer!

I recently finished this trio of Moai pendants. A friend of mind requested a Maoi pendant as an anniversary gift and it eventually turned into three pendants.

These are made out of a Poplar dowel from Home Depot. Cuts real nice like a soft wood, but boy does it stain ugly.
A couple coats of shellec evened out the color pretty good, but I didn't get a pic of the finished pendants.

After seeing what happened to the first two, this one got a wash coat of blonde shellac before the stain.

Then it was off to Fort Lauderdale, my first trip to the Mai Kai, and finally meeting a couple of famous TC'ers... more to come later!