M7 Carved Burl Tree


joe mendel

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I never took photos of how I whitened the tree canopy.  What I did was make a sand baster from a Gatorade bottle and an air nozzle.  I blasted the yellow skin of the burl until all of the oxidation surface was removed and a white surface emerged.   The finish is super blonde shellac that I sprayed using a gravity feed spray gun, which did great in evening out the finish.  Since the surface could not be scuffed between coats, I utilized a finish that broke through the previous coats without the need to prepare between coats of finish.  Using a very light color shellac would be beneficial to not color the canopy much at all.

 

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