new mirrors
john lucas
Trying to get some stuff to the gallery before their big thanksgiving celebration. I'll be working on ornaments next week. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this. The Zebra wood mirror took me 36 minutes start to finish. I cut the front surface with 3 quick passes of a pull cut. Then switch the lathe to reverse and do a push cut with my 40 degree gouge. That usually cleans everything up to sand with 220 grit. The handle is even faster since I rough it out with my roughing gouge that is sharpened at a 45 degree angle. I do a finishing pass on everything and turn any beads with the skew. I've turned them in as little as 8 minutes but this one took longer because the wood was crappy and the beads actually broke and had to be reshaped.
finish is a couple of coats of Mini wax wipe on poly followed by a Bealle buffing regimine. 
