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This object is approximately 8" in diameter and 7" high. I actually turned it last fall (it was the inspiration for this project http://lumberjocks.com/projects/24407), but my Brother-in-Law just graduated from pharmacy school, so it's been tucked behind the workbench since then. It was bright yellow when it came off of the lathe, but has mellowed to a more subtle orange - not quite Auburn orange (where he graduated), but I don't think that color exists in nature.

Finish is two coats of thinned brushing lacquer, the sheen taken down with 0000 steel wool, and then 2 coats of Johnson's paste wax.

James

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Very nice.

Is this Osage Orange?
 

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So nice great job
 

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Very pretty! And clever :)

How is Osage Orange to work with? I have a giant pile of it coming my way..
 

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I grew up calling it Osage Orange (in Kansas) but around here (Tennessee) they call if bowdock or bowdark, which is the bastardization of bois d'arc - one of the other common names.

It's fairly easy to work when wet, but it's hard as a rock once it dries. Didn't move very much while it was drying out - I finished turned it down to 1/4" walls from the very beginning and it's still very close to round.

James
 

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The wood looks very beautiful and the turning is very well done James.
 

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Great project to have completed for a gift.
 

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Kudos on the name lesson. Bowdock is what I usually hear it as, but there are some real "old timers" who still prefer hedgeapple. How many trips to the sharpening stone did ya take?
 
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