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Title: Back to the drawing board
Post by: misfire on July 28, 2011, 01:05:58 PM

It took me a while to actually learn how to properly turn a piece of wood. Got with a professional who showed me some techniques that almost negated sanding. Well, now I have tackled a different animal altogether, CORIAN. I am beginning to believe that Corian is a Swahili word for DONT DO THIS!!!!! That stuff is as hard as woodpecker lips :goofball:. It only took me two days to turn this one, started figuring out some things toward the end that should help on the next one. Once it is turned and sanded, it looks great

(http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/GA_LAB/slate%20calls/corianslate600x400.jpg)

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Post by: rtsj on July 28, 2011, 01:13:02 PM

Beautiful call!! :z-winnersmiley:

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Post by: drenalinld on July 28, 2011, 01:52:37 PM

It does look great!

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Post by: swampgobbler on July 28, 2011, 03:24:54 PM

care to offer some tips.... i just got my hands on a big piece.

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Post by: hookedspur on July 28, 2011, 04:10:44 PM

:icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:

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Post by: misfire on July 28, 2011, 05:19:33 PM

Quote from: swampgobbler on July 28, 2011, 03:24:54 PM
care to offer some tips.... i just got my hands on a big piece.

RUN???????? Faster????? :toothy12: Towards the end I laid down my gouge and used a skew. That seemed to work better. Tomorrow I will use a scraper

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Post by: kenturkey89 on July 28, 2011, 05:34:11 PM

That corian looks amazing!! Awesome work :icon_thumright:

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Post by: TRKYHTR on July 28, 2011, 05:49:04 PM

Nice work.

TRKYHTR

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Post by: savduck on July 28, 2011, 06:46:45 PM

Lee, that is sweet.....now lets get a Misfire owl call on the market

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Post by: M,Yingling on July 28, 2011, 08:07:10 PM

Nice lookin call :icon_thumright:

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Post by: misfire on July 28, 2011, 08:23:42 PM

Thanks guys, mucho appreciado

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Post by: JVA54 on July 28, 2011, 11:06:52 PM

:icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:

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Post by: Bonjour on July 28, 2011, 11:15:14 PM

I use fingernail bowl gouges and it cuts pretty good, but you will have to sharpen often. The one nice thing is that it sands great. I usually wet sand it up to 1000 grit and then use a car polish to finish it off. That call turned out great though. :icon_thumright:

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Post by: swampgobbler on July 28, 2011, 11:34:31 PM

wonder if the carbide tools would work any better?

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Post by: ElkTurkMan on July 29, 2011, 08:20:07 AM

Looks good Lee. It was nice meeting you last Saturday.

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Post by: misfire on July 29, 2011, 11:42:32 AM

Quote from: Hawken on July 29, 2011, 08:20:07 AM
Looks good Lee. It was nice meeting you last Saturday.

That pleasure was all mine.

Bonjour,
Thanks for the tip. I used a 3/8 gouge and it did decent

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