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cutters, burrs, and rasps can be found
online. Just Google any of the names I have
used in this article.
After I thought the shaping was finished,
I had a last critical look at the whole stand
and decided that the platform was too
thick and thinned it down by removing
more wood from its underside using the
Arbortech Mini Grinder.
After that the stand was sanded all over
—quite a task! Smoothing out rough spots
was done with a variety of miniature files It took less than 5 hours from start to
and small sanding drums in the Dremel flex finish, see Photo 14, compared to the 15
shaft, including fine sandpaper wrapped on cm high Gidgee stand in Photo 1, which
a split mandrel. Photo 11. took 15 hours start to finish. So the time
When all that was done, I applied and difficulty is very much determined by
Brown Japan stain, then two coats of oil the type of wood you choose. Also, harder,
followed by two coats of wax, to give the fine grained timbers can give a smooth,
final result in Photos 12 and 13. It took more professional looking finish.
19 hours from start to finish, which was
mostly because the wood was so hard. Just
for fun, I made another smaller root wood
stand in soft, Jelutong wood. 18 cm high.

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