Some wood turning and some non-wood turning

[Creamer]

I got the itch to make myself an oak call for this fall. The blank is white oak.

I've been wanting to mess with some acrylic blanks and finally made myself do it. The material is spendy and very different to work with. This call turned out nice and sounds great, but it's a lot more of a pain to work with (in my opinion) than wood.

 

[Boarhead]

Nice work!

 

[Quantum673]

Looks great

 

[Jamie]

do you sand the acrylic the same as wood?

 

[Creamer]

do you sand the acrylic the same as wood?

Well, I think you're supposed to sand it slightly different. They sell sanding pads that go to a really fine grit that are made for wet sanding acrylic. I have standard sand paper down to 3000 grit and sanding screens down to 800 grit. I use the screens on most of my pieces. I sanded with those screens and was pretty happy with the smoothness and look with 800 grit screens, so I stopped there. I bought some liquid plastic polish and sprayed that on the call when each piece was done, and buffed it with a cloth. I'm sure it's not textbook or the right way, but I was happy with the result.

 

[giles]

Purdy

 

[OhioWhiteTails]

Very purdy!

 

[GoetsTalon]

That acrylic looks Amazing!

 

[MoonLab]

Badass

 

[jagermeister]

Nice work Jeff. I believe acrylic is generally polished with a flame/torch.

What kind of calls are those?

 

[switchhitter]

Very nice work
Giving me the itch to turn a call

 

[brock ratcliff]

Impressive work! Even more impressive that you managed to keep your thumb straight for the pics.

 

[Creamer]

Nice work Jeff. I believe acrylic is generally polished with a flame/torch.

What kind of calls are those?

Deer grunt tubes.

 

[jagermeister]

Deer grunt tubes.

Roger that. I was thinking grunt calls, but the lack of a flex tube threw me off. Those look great.

 

[Dustinb80]

Deer grunt tubes.

So can you actually bring me one this year at Strouds? You let me down last year lol

 

[giles]

So can you actually bring me one this year at Strouds? You let me down last year lol

Haha, he said I went to bed early.

I have hunted this long without, I can wait until we make it happen. Love these things!

 

[Creamer]

So can you actually bring me one this year at Strouds? You let me down last year lol

I had some with me, and I honestly forgot all about them. And I still have them!

 

[Creamer]

I grabbed a chunk of osage yesterday from the pile a coworker gifted me. I wanted to try setting it in the lathe sort of intentionally unbalanced, not centered up, to try to tease some more grain out of the piece.

It came a long ways in a short period of time.

The lower barrel had some splitting issues that I found quickly. I tried to fill the cracks as best I could with 3 coats of liquid CA (super glue). It seems to have held up ok so far, but I'm keeping an eye on it as I add finish. I think it adds a little character.

 

[Jamie]

are those drying checks or wind shakes? looks nice.

 

[Creamer]

are those drying checks or wind shakes? looks nice.

I'm guessing it's from drying, but that's just a guess.