Monday, September 17, 2018

Perhaps Florence is moving on

The clouds are moving from the southwest to the northeast which is a good sign - that means that the center of the storm's rotation has moved out of our area and is going to wreak havoc elsewhere.


The bad news is that the weather we are now experiencing has increased in intensity - we have had thunderstorms and reports of tornadoes. 

I did manage to turn this black walnut bowl from a blank that was stacked up in my shed. Also managed to sell it, so it's good to make a little money even when a storm is raging.



17 comments:

AllenS said...

No rain inside the bowl. That is a good sign.

The Dude said...

Good point, AllenS - the roof is still attached to my house.

Amartel said...

I wish I didn’t already have two salad bowls.

edutcher said...

We're starting to feel a little of Flo up here in NE OH.

The Dude said...

It is indeed headed your way, Ed, with any luck it will amount to nothing more than wind and rain. As I have written, we dodged a bullet in my county, current tornadoes notwithstanding.

AllenS said...

It's clouding up in west central WI. Flo? No. The overcast came from the NW. Supposed to rain on and off for about 3 days. Top temps in the 60s. Welcome relief, because the last 3 days it was in the 90s.

ricpic said...

I guess this is nosy of me but if you make a bowl and sell it fast is that because part of your house is a showroom? Or does it involve getting the word (and image) out by way of the internet? What kind of a marketing genius are you anyway?!

chickelit said...

Those bowls are looking better and better, Sixty. I'm tempted to buy one.

The Dude said...

My work has always looked awesome, Куриный человек, but using Waterlox finish on my walnut bowls makes them look even better. Er, I mean, thanks!

And don't buy one, buy several! Save on shipping costs.

ricpic, I was corresponding with a former classmate of mine after I missed our 50th HS reunion and she said she wanted to buy a bowl made by me. I asked what size, what type of wood, and then, due to the fact that the hurricane prevented me from doing anything else, I turned it and sanded it just like that. So I am the opposite of a marketing genius, this was probably closer to a pity sale or nostalgia or something. But a sale is a sale and I will take it.

chickelit said...

The way storms work out here is if the rains over the coast and foothills, the mountains catch all the rain and sound it back to the coast.

deborah said...

Beautiful, beautiful. Can you use Waterlox on something intended for food?

chickelit said...

Can you use Waterlox* on something intended for food?

Absolutely! A better question is: Can you eat off something treated with Waterlox?

According to the label on my can of Waterlox*, the top five ingredients are: mineral spirits, tung oil, ester gum, phenolic resin, linseed oil.

Do any of these sound scary? I can help
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*@Sixty: I haven't picked up my can of Waterlox for months. I shook it. It sounded very fluid. I think my anaerobic sealing worked!

The Dude said...

I had to purchase a new can of Waterlox recently as my old one was gittin' low. I use rocks to displace air in the can and that works well as long as you can keep the liquid level all the way up to the neck of the can - that is, you minimize the amount of air inside the can and the surface area of the liquid exposed to the air to the absolute smallest amount possible.

However, once the liquid level falls to a lower point you get interstitial air in the rocks and eventually the remaining Waterlox turns to gum. Being cheap I deal with it, but eventually the Waterlox gets too viscous to pour out - time for new!

So I bust out my tin snips, cut open the can, dump the rocks on a piece of cardboard and let them dry in the sun. Rinse, repeat, as they say.

The Dude said...

As for food safe, once it is dry that finish is not going anywhere. Normally I use mineral oil, which is different that mineral spirits, or sometimes bees wax mixed with mineral oil - both of those ingredients can be ingested, so they are definitely food safe.

Main thing is - don't scrape the finish off the bowl into your food. Also, this particular walnut bowl was made to be decorative, not functional.

deborah said...

Thanks, chick. Sounds like a really cool product.

Sixty, trust me, the decorativity of your bowls is highly functional.

Waterlox sounds like
Something ricpic would eat with
His bagelseses

The Dude said...

Well played deborah,
Well played indeed haiku gal,
Water floods the land.

deborah said...

;)