Another walnut project WIP

[rvieceli]

Picked this little walnut piece I from my sawyer today. About 11 inches by 24 inches by 3 inches thick. Absolutely gorgeous color, nice grain. I have an idea for the bark inclusion which may work.  [eek]
Should be able to get at least 2 pieces out of maybe 3

Ron

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[Sparktrician]

Seeing the voids makes me wonder about doing something interesting with colored epoxy, like hiding LEDs deep in a crevice, then filling the crevice with epoxy to create a night light effect.  [smile]

 

[rmwarren]

LEDs are an interesting twist. My money is on Ron finding something other than epoxy to emphasize the features. Nothing against epoxy per se, it's just become so overused IMO. By me as well, admittedly.

YT guy Ben/homemademodern recently melted a low temp metal (tin/bitumen?) into some voids and it was an interesting look, although it could probably be simulated with metal colored epoxy.

A few years back I added some crushed turquoise and malachite (separately) to green tinted epoxy, came out nice.

Ron, your slab guy must love you for buying stuff he might otherwise not have much of a market for?

RMW

 

[rvieceli]

He does  [big grin] but I think he may have thrown that one in for free with the other stuff I bought.  [tongue] I may have suggested that  [eek]

Don’t get me started on big expanses of epoxy.

You should take a look at this guy’s work. Breathtakingly beautiful stuff and no big parts of epoxy.
https://www.gregklassen.com/

A word of caution though, click that link and you may never look at woodworking the same way.  [big grin]

Ron

 

[Sparktrician]

He does  [big grin] but I think he may have thrown that one in for free with the other stuff I bought.  [tongue] I may have suggested that  [eek]

Don’t get me started on big expanses of epoxy.

You should take a look at this guy’s work. Breathtakingly beautiful stuff and no big parts of epoxy.
https://www.gregklassen.com/

A word of caution though, click that link and you may never look at woodworking the same way.  [big grin]

Ron

DANG!!!  That guy's vision is wonderful!!! 

 

[rvieceli]

Well shucks.  [scared] As a friend of mine likes to say “sometimes free isn’t cheap enough”. The piece had an internal split that ran from the top to the bottom only starting and stopping just in from the outside on both ends so I couldn’t see it until I started slicing it up. Ran about half the width as well.

So instead of getting a couple of bigger pieces, I’ll net out four smaller pieces.

Ron