Attendance: Rick, Miles, Paul, Chris, Lawrence
Leo went over techniques of staining cherry:
Coat with dilute Potassium dichromate and dry. This produces a muddy brown result.
Apply a coat of lacquer and let dry.
Re-coat with lacquer.
Apply an oil based stain. Leo used Mohawk cherry concentrate #408. Mix the concentrate with paint thinner to produce a thin stain.Coat repeatedly until color is right.
Carbide tool bits have to be razor sharp for wood cutting. Diamond honing is needed.
For use on metal lathe, the edge has to be dulled slightly.
Grind down a triangular file to make a nice skew chisel for the lathe.
Oil stones can be used as sander tools on the lathe, especially on cherry.
They can be sharpened on the grinder like any tool.
For the next project we need a blank of 7 x 7 x 3 to make a bowl.
