Wood Turning: Colored Elm Bowl (No Embellishing Wax! No paint!)

In this video I turned a bowl from some elm that had been cut down in the spring of 2021. I wanted to color it and high light the grain, but I don't have embellishing wax and I didn't want to use paint. I used alcohol dye to color it black, then I mixed some mica powder into some shellac-based sanding sealer, hoping the sanding sealer would help the mica powder flow into the open grain. It worked, and I applied 9 coats of acrylic sealer over the top. Love how the mica powder/sanding sealer worked, now if I could just get some wood that isn't all cracked up!

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Cattails - Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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