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There is a great give and take session with the crowd about what works and what doesn't here |
Saturday morning didn't begin any better weatherwise |
With the ballots on the pen display counted on Friday night, the results are posted |
Not the fanciest but it got the winners announced and thanked folks for voting |
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On Saturday morning, I attended Phil Iron's session on decorating bowls |
Phil was getting a pretty good ribbing from the back of the room |
From the color of Stuart Mortimer's face, you can tell that Phil was doing pretty well too |
Phil and Stuart were comparing interaction techniques in the colonies and the motherland |
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Dave Reeks gets into the fray as well |
All in all, a very entertaining interchange while Phil was shaping his demo piece |
Phil does a bit of shear scraping on a bowl exterior in preparation for dyeing |
Phil applies a coat of diluted Liberon dye to the bare wood |
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After flashing off the solvents, he's ready for sanding |
With a power sander, Phil takes off the surface creating a variable stain pattern |
This is repeated until the depth of color is achieved |
The next color is applied to the bowl |
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After flashing the solvent, it is sanded with the next higher sanding grit |
This can be repeated with other colors as you work up through the sanding grits |
Enough for demonstration's sake, a coat of lacquer is applied |
A look at the demo piece as finished |
Photos by Kurt Hertzog |
