Woodturning A Dyed and Scorched Cypress Bowl

Welcome back everyone. Today we're trying again something new or something that I had a go at a few months ago. If you remember this bowl I don't remember at the moment which video it was but I'm going to put the link down at the bottom if you want to see how this bowl was made using watercolors and obviously also the results of the experiments and a few personal thoughts on this project. Go and visit that video. But today we are going to try something new with a kit of stain powder that a friend of mine from the US sent me, Mr. James Nix. This is not going to be a product review video. I have absolutely no basis for comparison with anything other because I've never used any other stain before so this is going to be my first try. I'm not reviewing this product because obviously my results will not attest to this product's capability of producing any results other than mine. The kit comes with five basic colors. I've been reading a little bit the instructions and this is the royal blue, the golden brown, the sunflower yellow and the fire engine red and of course the coal black. Okay so the bowl we're going to work on is this cypress bowl and I've turned it on the 19th of April, on the 19th of April so seven and a half months ago. I see there's a couple of cracks here that I've already CA'd when I rough turned this bowl so that will make it easier and other than those two small, these two small cracks I can see absolutely nothing else. I read the instructions on all sides of this this postcard that came with it and nor does it mention any specific quantities. The only thing I could find is that it says this kit can make over one gallon of water-based wood stain, sorry wood stain. So what I did is I took the quantity of one gallon which is 3.8 a little bit less than 3.8 liters and divided it by the number of grams of material in this kit which is 25 grams and I've got these glass jars used to be pickled hot peppers, my choice of snacks and they're all cleaned up and I've got some hot water here and I've got some wood sticks to mix everything up and I also went and bought this little scale that scales up to tenth of a gram so I hope it's good enough to work for me here and I'll be preparing everything on small pieces of paper so it will be easier for me to pour them in later, go like this and I think that I also I've got a few pieces of wood here to try out the stain on, some paper towels, sponges, a brush, some rubber gloves for when I apply the stain and I think I'm all set up so let's start with the water so we said 150 milliliters of water and dump this into the water like so and now I'm going to take some some of the dye and just spread it around in the direction of the grain and I'm going to wipe the excess off in the direction of the grain as indicated I did make a new batch of dye with the same quantities exactly because what I did was while dyeing the wood and I picked up some of the drops that fell and I squeezed it back into the dye and obviously it came back full of dust and the dye became all murky so probably still usable for different projects and experiments but not for the bowl that we're going to do so I have a new batch for that so I guess there's nothing else to do but go and try this on the bowl we're back on the lathe and this is the bowl I'll send it to 500 and I think I'm ready to start the experiment my worst fear or a few of my worst fears are that one the dye will have will show will show patches of different colors because I didn't apply it right another fear is that the dye will penetrate to the other side of the bowl I hope this wood is dense enough and thick enough to prevent that from happening but I wouldn't know take a walk down by the sea picking up colored shells in the sand see you go I want your wings silver circus in a cloudy land even with the winds blow don't crash the black sky's face see girl I can hear you call me time and space I want to know how it makes you feel the worthy restless wings can't ride drifting past forgotten shores gilded galleons on as your ties in the cloudy sky I want to breathe see go fly through the sky here it is all done our scorched lit cypress bowl red dyed on the outside I hope you've enjoyed this week's video and I hope to see you back in my shop really soon take a walk down by the sea picking up colored shells in the sand