{"id":1399,"date":"2016-10-06T14:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:27:39","slug":"eucalyptus-knobs-223-224-225-226-227-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2016\/10\/06\/eucalyptus-knobs-223-224-225-226-227-228\/","title":{"rendered":"Eucalyptus knobs 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the last 6 knobs of 20 from a Cali Bamboo flooring sample made of “woven strand” Eucalyptus, all with horizontal grain.\u00a0 The finish on the next four, 223, 224, 225 & 226, is layers of generic superglue (SG) and either translucent acrylic or fabric paint. This intended to get a candy-like finish through which at least some of the iridescence of the wood showed.\u00a0 The paints were mixed by finger on the turning knob (on a wood lathe) with some clear acrylic floating medium to make the paint layers even more translucent.\u00a0 The knobs were polished before and after painting (sometime in between layers), and ultimately finished with Kiwi neutral shoe polish.<\/p>\n

Almost all have circular “tooling” marks on their tops from swirling the layers on with a finger or folded scrap of paper towel.\u00a0 One can only eliminate such marks by layering the SG on to thickness and then filing and sanding back down.\u00a0 Even this turns out not to be so easy.\u00a0 Paint in particular raises ridges, which causes leveling to cut back down through the SG into the paint.<\/p>\n

These knobs turned out a little better than 221 & 222.\u00a0 More practice needed.<\/p>\n

If I remember correctly, Knob 223 (left) below used at least two different colors of blue (acrylic) and turquoise (fabric) paint.\u00a0 As the different knob positions show, it still has some iridescence.\u00a0 It has a yellow glass bead pointer.\u00a0 Knob 225 (right) has little left because the base paint is a metallic gold.\u00a0 Yellow acrylic paint, and possibly some yellow fabric paint give it color.<\/p>\n

\"knobs-0223-0224-600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Knobs 223 & 224\u00a0 (c) 2016 android originals LC<\/p>\n

\"knobs-0225-0226-600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Knobs 225 & 226<\/p>\n

I don’t remember exactly what I put on Knob 225 (left).\u00a0 Some combination of bright red acrylic, magenta acrylic, cardinal red Setacolor fabric and\/or Fuchsia Setacolor fabric paint, with a blue glass bead pointer.\u00a0 Obviously, some of the iridescence of the Eucalyptus shows through.\u00a0 Knob 225 (right) definitely had some orange or buttercup fabric paint, as well as some acrylic colors.\u00a0 It also shows some iridescence, with a blue glass bead pointer.<\/p>\n

\"knobs-0227-0228-600\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Knobs 227 & 228\u00a0\u00a0 (c) 2016 android originals LC<\/p>\n

Knob 227 (right) was not painted, but 228 was.\u00a0 Then the paint was removed from 228, except from the decorative and finger grooves.\u00a0 The side grooves had yellow paint and the top groove blue.\u00a0 Knob 227 has a red glass bead pointer, and 228, blue.\u00a0 Notice that with all the glass beads on all these knobs, the bead sits in a decorative groove, looking a bit like a moon in an orbit.\u00a0 FYI, it’s a lot easier to drill the holes after making the grooves, to make them look like that.<\/p>\n

Note that using fabric paint is not ideal; it tends to remain soft after drying.\u00a0 One has to hope that the SG fixes it.\u00a0 Acrylic paint is harder, and perhaps less likely to fail in the long run.\u00a0 I simply had more colors of fabric paint on hand.\u00a0 Note that for this application, it doesn’t take much paint; just a few drops per knob.\u00a0 Large 4 ounce tubes of acrylic can change to rubber before they all get used up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the last 6 knobs of 20 from a Cali Bamboo flooring sample made of “woven strand” Eucalyptus, all with horizontal grain.\u00a0 The finish on the next four, 223, 224, 225 & 226, is layers of generic superglue (SG) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[296,271,289,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}