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Club Demonstration 7th March 2019, working with Pebeo paints.

Our club meeting on Thursday 7th March 2019 was a demonstration by Alec Mutch on the use of Pebeo paints in woodturning. These paints can be used to enhance the appearance of an otherwise plain or bland piece of wood, making their use very valuable. The following set of pictures will take you through the making of a shallow plate and also the paints being put to use. Most of the pictures were taken by Richard Comfort with a few of my own taken at my workshop. The turnout for the meeting was excellent.

A blank of Beech on the lathe, ready to start my shallow plate.
The first cuts being taken, this levelled up the bottom.
Now I'm forming the recess in the base for mounting on a chuck when I come to do the inside.
The chuck recess formed and I have also started to form the shape of the underside, you will also see I have marked out where the foot will be.
Now I'm finishing off the shape on the outside.
With the shape complete, some sanding was required, I use the Powerlock system for most of my sanding, here the inside of the chuck recess is being sanded.
I changed the size of the sanding disc to sand the remainder of the outside.
With the sanding complete on the outside, I applied a coat of sanding sealer and flattened with steel wool.
A coat of Melamine was used for the final finish, here I'm buffing the Melamine to a soft glow.
Now for the inside, the blank now mounted on a chuck that fits inside the recess.
The first job is to flatten the face then to form the area where the Pebeo paint has to go, it should be about 3mm deep, the width is up to you.
Now I am removing the waste from the inside of my shallow plate.
As the depth increases do check for thickness over the recess area, you do not want to go through the bottom.
With the shape and depth finished on the inside, the whole of the inside can be sanded.
A coat of sealer has been applied and the inside flattened with wire wool.
A final coat of Melamine finishes the plate, here I'm just buffing the finish to a soft glow.
If you use a spigot for the base, it will need to be removed, this is done with a set of bowl jaws. Here I'm sanding the base after removing the spigot.
The sanded base, seal and polish using the same method as for the rest of the plate.
For this Maple plate I did the painting at the club,I used Pebeo Vitrail dark green for the base with Pebeo Moon apricot on top.
For this Lime plate I used 2 colours of Pebeo Prisme, red and purple, this type of paint gives the honeycomb effect after a few hours.
These were the Pebeo paints I used at the club along with some white spirit for cleaning the tools.
The Beech plate I made at the club, the base coat of Pebeo Vitrail dark green was applied using a pipette to a depth of 2 mm.
The Pebeo Moon apricot now about to be applied, I use a marked out piece of paper to help with the positioning of the spots of Moon paint.
This is how it looked after applying the Pebeo Moon apricot, there is no waiting time before applying the Moon paint.

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