And now, a drunken candlestick posting

Everything else
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Stick, bitches!

Sorry, couldn’t resist. A nice candlestick I made this weekend with my father. Firewood oak, nice spalling up close. I went with a deco style, it just seemed right. I got very lucky with the visible knot, it didn’t chip and has a great “Eye storm on Saturn” feel. The two dark lines are burn lines, my father made a nice little stainless steel wire garrotte that you can use to burn a line on wood by friction in the lathe.

And now, spalling enhance!

Hoo boy, I gotta watch this double special beer. The maddening thing is that I know I can never make a decent “two triangle” candle again. My first effort at complicated things is always ridiculously competent, and then I fall apart. You should have tasted the first loaf of bread I ever baked. Instead, you can only have the 200 failures since.

H.

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Not bad, but it needs a little staining.

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Not if you could see it up close, the wood has too much character. It also has some nice tan sections that didn’t come through in the photo.

H.

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do you mean spalting instead of spalling?

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Is that what it is? My father kept saying “spalding” which is country for spalting. Now it makes sense. Thanks.

H.

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Spalling is when a surface chips due to stress; for example a windshield hit by a high-velocity Mario Van Peebles.