I had only covered half the pinecone, and this was probably $70 or $80 worth of epoxy. Instead of just tossing the piece, I decided to work with it. I sliced up the piece with my bandsaw and sanded it down. I then began the laborious process of filling in the voids. I did different colors with each difference slice, and it took quite a while to get all the nook and crannies filled up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This first box I decided to CNC the top piece out after designing the shape in Fusion 360. I made some jigs and fixtures for my Tormach out of MDF and used some router bits to do the shaping. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe wood is California madrone that I harvested earlier in the year. The tree was dying, and my neighbor Joanne wanted it cut down. I milled it with the chainsaw and Alaskan mill — it was tedious because the wet madrone seemed to create a juice that made the chainsaw chain start sticking excessively to the blade. I would have to pull it out and clean it about 3\/4 the way through each cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I cut some of the pieces at about 1″ thick, and those ones are already at about 10% moisture, which is a good point for me to start processing it. Unfortunately a lot of the wood got some larvae infestation, and isn’t useable. I managed to salvage enough out of one piece to make this box. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The box is finished with Osmo polyx oil in a satin sheen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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