| Project by TDSpade | posted 12-13-2018 04:42 AM | 1218 views | 3 times favorited | 7 comments |  |
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Turning Christmas trees, I used 2 inch diameter poplar dowel cut to just under 6 inches on my band saw. This gave me 8 blanks per dowel. I colored these with Sharpies. But the blue turned a more purple-ish color and all of the colors changed a little or a lot. One dowel was very green and the other an off white. That also affected the final color.
If anyone wants waste 8½ minutes of their life here is a link to the youtube video of me making one of the trees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOWV7FiAeGo
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ralbuck
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#1 posted 12-13-2018 06:19 AM
Futuristic forest!
I think they are neat, although I do admit like the green ones best.
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Woodbutcher3
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#2 posted 12-13-2018 11:13 AM
Great idea. I have blanks some friends prepped for Snowmen. We’ll see if I can come close to their clever efforts. These quick little projects make fun gifts people love. Thanks for sharing!
-- Rod ~ There's never enough time to finish a project, but there's always time to start another one.
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#3 posted 12-13-2018 01:37 PM
very cool looking multi colored forest you have there. Great idea.
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#4 posted 12-13-2018 01:54 PM
Cool. I enjoyed watching your technique in the video. Well done.
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rtbrmb
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#5 posted 12-14-2018 03:02 AM
excellent work. i may try this for Christmas 2019…
thanks for posting.
Bill in MI
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#6 posted 12-14-2018 05:03 AM
nice —— I like it
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Ivan
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#7 posted 12-14-2018 08:59 AM
Outstanding shapes and colours! Great idea for lathe project.
-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted
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