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Clean up after a weekends manoeuvres always felt worse than the manoeuvres themselves

Welcome to the asylum 🤪

Hey Mick, yup that does look like the Cherry I left with you, that's a gorgeous piece 😍

Oh no, you don't eat it.

3 more tealights, this time using some bits of Western Red Cedar I've got left over from the Christmas bells I made for the shop, love the way the cheap little lights make the wood glow

If only I was still living in Aylesbury 🥲

I bought a box of LED tea lights that flicker to imitate real candles, they work really well and the batteries last about 10 hours.

Aaaaand another one from birch, which doesn't need to be as thin to let the light through

Some green oak tea lights, got them as thin as I could. Made these as a leaving gift for one of the girls at work

What tools do you have available to you?

Both of these silver birch pots were made 4 years ago and lined with a good coat of polyurethane resin (used because I had some left over from a fibreglass project) the smaller one was removed and repotted back into it last year and there's no sign of water getting through the resin.

My mother has one of these, it can turn a 13inch bowl I think but the motor has bad habit of overheating after 10 to 15 minutes and requiring a cool down period, she hates it but can't afford anything else. (She'll get my DML24 when I eventually upgrade 😊)

100%, the briwax I have is extremely soft in the tin at these winter temps, it's almost liquid in the summer , the Yandles stuff is still firm in the summer, the difference on wood is night and day too, the dragon eggs I'm doing at the minute for example, the yandles wax feels like smooth glass...

Not Oak , I'd say Iroko as the others have suggested.

So I've just finished my tin of wax Unfortunately Yandles no longer have their own brand of finishes, this 400g tin has lasted 2 years and I love the look and feel of the finish it gives, I've used briwax and don't like the feel of the finish at all and the sheen doesnt look as good, yandles...

More dragons eggs found, processed and polished over the last 2 days, they take a bit longer than I expected as I'm making sure I get a good sheen from sanding before polishing them 😀 Still quite a few to finish then I can start searching through the remaining logs to find more.

If they were rabbit eggs I'd agree but these are dragon eggs 😉😁😁😁 Got a few more done today, 2 different sizes to keep things simple and make the best use of the growths I have, I've got 2 more small ones ready but need to glue them to a waste block as there's not enough wood to put a tenon on...

First dragon egg finished I have an idea to create my own dragons, I'm starting with 2, Oak and Birch because I have plentiful supply, I will add more over time, the eggs will only be made with growth spots and burrs as the grain patterns will provide the magical appearance, hoping to have the...

Is Holly burr a rarity? I've done a Google search and can't seem to find any for sale, found a few items made from it but none to buy in its base form.

It seems my dragons have started laying their eggs this year, 24 from the Birch Dragon ready for heat treatment before being finished and polished (going to gently dry them in the oven while SWMBO is at work tomorrow) 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 hoping for some from the Oak Dragon soon. I've also spent a couple of...