Red Cedar tall vase

The boss wanted a tall slim vase but with a bigger foot. She doesn't like the small "artsie" ones. Says they wobble around. 12 1/2" X 5 3/4" with 8 coats of wipe on gloss poly and 3 wheel buffed.

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Bill Bolen

Registered: March 2007
Location: Eureka, Missouri
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Date: Mon January 12, 2009
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Keywords: red cedar tall vase

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Mike Baber

Beautiful and the finish... Outstanding! Thumbs Up!

Wizzy

#1 Tue January 13, 2009 12:42am

Chuck Beland

Bill,
That's fantastic. Did you use 0000 steel wool between the coats?

#2 Tue January 13, 2009 1:03am

Bill Bolen

No chuck, being an old auto worker in paint I used our standard show-car method between coats. Wet sand with 600 till all defects are gone, put on another coat and do it all again. After final coat wet sand to 1200 or 1800 and buff it all out. Kinda time consuming but does do the job right.

#3 Tue January 13, 2009 3:02am

Larry Charlot

nice shape excellent finish

#4 Tue January 13, 2009 3:44am

Rev. Doug Miller

Rev. Doug Miller

Larry took the words right off my keyboard. Beautiful piece. I assume those little white spots upper left are reflections of lights? What a great piece of cedar you found to work with. 8-)

#5 Tue January 13, 2009 4:34am

Mark Damron

Perfect form and finish! very nice.

#6 Tue January 13, 2009 7:31am

Paul Zerjay

12-1/2" is something to rave about. Is this the deepest you've gone? That rig you made yourself I guess? Cedar is also a species I have never had luck with, having to do with cracks and heat checks. You have done very well here. I like it a lot.

#7 Tue January 13, 2009 1:55pm

Bill Bolen

Yes paul, it is the deepest I've done with the snake. I think I have reached the depth limit with it here. With the bigger bit holder I hit bottom ok but ran out of length on the bar to go deeper. Thanks all for the nice compliments.
Rev, yes the spots are just reflections. My photo skills are not the best but I do what I can to try and show the pieces as it really is.
...Bill..

#8 Tue January 13, 2009 4:18pm

Chuck Beland

Bill,
I definitely would vote this piece to be in next years calender. Make sure you keep a nice pic & it's of the correct size.

#9 Wed January 14, 2009 11:52pm