I hit Lowe's yesterday and found this:
Four feet of 2 inch Hardwood
Coolest thing is, it only cost me 10 bucks!
But, as I was afraid of, it was a bit too big for me to take
At least, in my grip
The good news is: I do have a lathe!
So this morning I set off to see what I can do
I cut off a hunk :
And turned it for a bit
(Sorry! I was so interested in working on it, I forgot to take pics)
After cutting the cap off and sanding it
This is the result:
My problem is now how to stain it.
The original idea was to use a solid black stain with a built-in polyurethane but now I am thinking of using a medium brown stain I use for my cutting boards
Then, what color falls?
With the black stain, I was going to use the new red Buckskin I have coming in
But with the brown stain, I wonder if the Black Elk would not be a better choice
What do you all think?