SaltwaterCowboy
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Fitting name considering my locale... I picked this one up since the last Grabow I re-did got sold off.
I took my dremel to the crown of the bowl and rounded it out, inside and out. Then I took some 320 grit to take the scratches out of the wood (long and tedious). Once I sanded off most of the old stain (still leaving a little bit) I taped off the beveled crown of the bowl and stained it with 10 coats of pure unadulterated orange stain (thus the deep orange-red you see). After that dried I removed the tape, stained the rest of the bowl and shank with a 1:6 ratio of dye to alcohol, sanded that down twice to knock off the brightness and then applied a couple of layers of wax.
I didn't do anything really special like my typical ribbon rustication or crazy designs. I fell in love with the wood grain patterns to do anything else. I really wish the guys at Dr. Grabow would quit covering those up with their typical chocolate brown stain, they really are some half decent looking pieces of briar underneath all that mess.
I took my dremel to the crown of the bowl and rounded it out, inside and out. Then I took some 320 grit to take the scratches out of the wood (long and tedious). Once I sanded off most of the old stain (still leaving a little bit) I taped off the beveled crown of the bowl and stained it with 10 coats of pure unadulterated orange stain (thus the deep orange-red you see). After that dried I removed the tape, stained the rest of the bowl and shank with a 1:6 ratio of dye to alcohol, sanded that down twice to knock off the brightness and then applied a couple of layers of wax.
I didn't do anything really special like my typical ribbon rustication or crazy designs. I fell in love with the wood grain patterns to do anything else. I really wish the guys at Dr. Grabow would quit covering those up with their typical chocolate brown stain, they really are some half decent looking pieces of briar underneath all that mess.
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