During one of our clubs events this past summer our president David Bell showed us the process of casting with Allumilite and various different colour pigments. Some of the results were truly amazing. What that demonstration did for me was to get me thinking of some different applications of this really enlightening process.
Sometime during last spring I received some Cherry burl and had a little piece lying around. My objective was to turn this little chuck of burl into a cylinder about 4cm. in diameter and appr. 10 cm long. The next part of the process was to turn a piece of Black Walnut into a hollow tube that would be about 4.5cm. inside measurement by 10cm long and the walls being .5 cm thick. When I had these done I took them to have the hollow areas and the void areas filled with Allumilite and under pressure cured it in place. Once this was all cured I took this finished piece to the bandsaw and cut the new piece into about 8 slices of 5mm thickness each. The next thing was to turn them an polish them into the finished product as shown in the picture above.
I did post them on a wood turners forum and got really positive comments. I just gave one to my youngest daughter and she really loved hers, I sure hope that the others will be received with the same enthusiasm.
Blessings on your day, Dirk Hoogendoorn
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