Cedar Travel Mugs

I turned the outside of these travel mugs from cedar 4X4s. My daughters insert came from a mug her grandmother gave her that broke and the other one was from a mug I bought at Target and broke the plastic off.

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Robert_Harper

Registered: December 2009
Location: Sandy, Utah, USA
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Date: Mon January 18, 2010
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Keywords: cedar travel mugs

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Don Leydens

Don Leydens

Great idea and they look wonderful. Did you dye them? Nice job.
Don L.

#1 Mon January 18, 2010 11:04am

Robert_Harper

Au natural. It just goes to show the variation of cedar. Both were turned from a different 4X4 I picked up from the local hardware.

Live long, love lots, and turn fast.

#2 Mon January 18, 2010 12:10pm

Makepeace

Leo Makepeace

Nice work Robert. I am having alot of problems identifying wood types, this just shows me why. Totaly different to me.

Ruining lots of good wood to get a few average bits.

#3 Tue January 19, 2010 11:47pm

Robert_Harper

Cedar is an interesting wood. The color can range from a milky white in the outer rings to a dark chocolate brown in the center. The green cedar I've been using is very red with a slight purple tint but when it is boiled, the outer skin turns very dark, almost black. The 4X4s are dried after rough cut and I think that changes the color a lot. Also the age of the trees changes the color and texture of the wood.

I look at it this way. It is our job as turners to find the hidden secrets buried deep inside. Sometimes for fun, I like to hold a goblet in one hand and point at a fence post with the other and say, "Now would you ever have thought that you could find this hiding inside that?"

Live long, love lots, and turn fast.

#4 Wed January 20, 2010 2:56pm