The workpiece from which the product will be created is cedar wood of natural drying. Its thickness is about sixty, maybe 65 in about millimeters. The author found a picture of the sheet on the Internet.
First, Alexander draws the silhouette of a sheet of monstera, drawing its contours on the board.
The author draws attention to the fact that the board is initially slightly curved, and he is going to use this feature. He will turn this curvature inward. The base will still be small.
Previously, Alexander gave the wood to lie down so that it dried out, as it should, and did not give new cracks.
Then he polished it with sandpaper. The author notes that if it were a pine, sandpaper would be jammed. But cedar, well-dried, does not clog the sandpaper. Accordingly, the choice fell on him, because he is very soft. In addition, - argues Alexander, - when painting this variety of wood, unlike larch and other hard species, is painted very quickly. That is, where on other wood the color is pale, the cedar will have a more saturated color. Cedar wood is very porous and strongly absorbs liquids. Its other distinguishing feature is lightness, which means the dish will turn out to be practically weightless.
At first, the author wanted to immediately cut all these radii with a band saw, but after the first time it turned out that the “ribbon” could not immediately give such a round. Accordingly, he had to drill with a pen drill.
True, the author gives us a recommendation - to use Forstner drills for such drilling, because when drilling with a pen, a very rough hole is obtained. Then it takes a long time to grind it with a dremel. Therefore, if possible, ”Alexander emphasizes,“ it’s better to immediately drill with a drill on a tree with a large diameter, for ten, for example.But not with feathers! At low speeds, they simply tear wood, especially soft wood.
Next, the wizard immediately cuts out all the holes. The author stipulates that in a good way it was necessary to first make a deepening of the bowl itself, i.e. cut it whole, and then cut out all these squiggles. So it would be much easier for a band saw.
And so in the process of grinding his petals flew off a couple of times after he tightly clamped them with a "goat". The two-component glue helped out - sticks together instantly! So I did not have to wait long. For the future, the author intends to cover such products with some kind of solid oil, most likely for the floor. It will give the tree density, stiffness.
You can unfold the board across and use it as an option, i.e. the fibers will be across. But in reality it looks less beautiful, - says Alexander, - although the petals will be tougher. The author tells us the second option: cut holes between the petals in such a way that at least the ends of the leaves remain intact, fused.
The depth was cut out all at once, using a three-toed Kraft disk.
This process, of course, takes time.
Also, the chips fly very much like pellets. So, follow safety precautions and wear gloves and a face shield. This is the most dreary job, rounding off by radii and choosing the inside.
And then it’s just a peeling disk that all this will more or less even out inside, because, nevertheless, a very rough surface is obtained from a trident tooth. Next, sandpaper is used, on a flexible rubber disk, starting from the 80th.
In the end, you can stop at the 180th, although you can process more fine-grained.
But the finer the paper surface is polished, the worse the colored oil lays.
But he still planned to make it not in the color of the tree, but in the color of the monstera. It is a green color.
Alexander will need to cover in two layers, because one seems to him pale.
Thanks to the author for the work done!
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