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I used three pieces of old cherry scrap flooring glued with original gorilla glue.
I used coarse white sand and fine blue sand with CA glue for the inlay.

The fine sand seemed to be a LOT harder on my tools than the last project with only coarse sand. I have to reshape my chisels now. I decided to turn it down using my hand power sander with a coarse grit whille it was turning in the lathe. That worked great . But because I didnt have a good way to finish the inside, considering the xtra hardness, I decided to leave a few millimeters of wood on the inside to conceal it this time

Polished with EEE Ultrashine

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That's a great piece, nice idea and design.
When you said about not being able to finish the inside, do you mean that it was your original intent that the sand inlay would go all the way through the side? I would think that may weaken it. This way looks much better.
I was wondering how you turned the inlay. I'll bet it not only dulled the tools but made some interesting noises!
 

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See my previous project, that inlay shows through the inside and its only about 1/8 " thick … if you hold it to a light you can see even through parts of it. ... the CA glue is pretty strong and dries clear. The rough stuff was done before it was hollowed out.

As it is close to finished I add another layer of CA glue, while it is spinning slowly, to both the inside and out, that strengthens it and fills in any small voids. Then sand and polish.

note : I also use a spray activator to cure the CA glue quickly
 

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This is a beautiful bowl, the blue makes it 'POP"!
 

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What kind of CA glue do you use for something like this and how do you apply it as a finish?
 

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I use the light CA glue and it was more af a final seal for the sand inlay only. i used EEE ultrashine for the overall finish. The CA filled in any little surface voids from the sanding and grinding and made it stronger. then i gave it a very light sanding to prepare for polish
 

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That came out great, the colored sand stands out much more than the first one you did, great contrast.
 

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Your sanding worked very well. That's a nice job of using inlay; it looks more uniform than I've seen in others. Good job!
 

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Dude, that is a beautiful bowl, I myself love Brazillian Cherry, I get alot of mine from shippments to local granite companies that have shippments from south america and they use the cherry to support the granite in the cargo conex, sometimes I also get alot of purple heart, and sometimes some rosewood. I love the inlay work. GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!
 

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Thanks all !

The Brazillian Cherry is also waaaay up there on the hardness scale compared to typical cherry. Good for rough work like this, it doesnt crush in the chuck or rip off the faceplate. I did 1700 feet of my main floor in brazillian cherry using 3.5" and 5" boards. Almost used up my scrap 5" boards but have plenty of the 3.5" for use as base/cuttoff pieces or for segmenting.
 
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