Woodturning | The Cherry Sunburst Bowl!

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Sadly, this one didn't come out as perfectly as I'd hoped, but it was a fun one nonetheless! For this project, I cut and sanded eight pieces of cherry into... I'm not sure what kind of shape you'd call these, but "sun beams." I then cut out 8 additional triangles and sanded them thin to act as beams of light shining inwards. I then hot glued them all down to a mold and cast them in a dark purple epoxy resin, which is where the problem arose. Because I wanted the swirls in the resin to stay in the final cast, I used a resin that cures relatively quick (about 45-60 minutes of open time), and although my garage was quite cold when I did the pour, the volume of resin I used was way too much for this sort of product. It wound up flash curing, and the result was that the resin cracked in about 5 places deep within the casting, which were slowly revealed when I was turning the piece. Although I tried my best to seal the cracks with some CA glue, some sanding dust still worked its way in a few during the wet sanding. In the end, though, I'm still really happy with this piece. It's probably the most technically challenging bowl I've done to date, and frankly, I'm still amazed I'm able to get these to completion at all :) I sure love that purple, too!

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Key equipment/products I used:

Rikon 70-220 VSR Midi Lathe: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/...
Woodstock 1/2 inch bowl gouge: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005...
CA Technologies Resin Casting Pressure Pot: https://www.finishsystems.com/product...
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Dewalt Jigsaw: https://www.homedepot.ca/product/dewa...
Waterlox Original Varnish: https://waterlox.com/original/