I love cocobolo. Just finished a small bowl with ever-so-slight curving. It sanded up beautifully and is smooth as glass at 320 grit. It oils up very nicely and doesn't "spot" going into the grain the way s. american mahogany seems to so that you have to keep drying, and drying, and rubbing, and even then can be a little spotty.
The past month has been busy. A film crew from the Martha Stewart Show was here all day on Friday Nov. 2nd, shooting the entire process of making a sculptural bowl, from taking a block off the stack, to chain-sawing the edges, and every step in between until 320 grit and signing then oiling the piece. Luckily my assistant Natasha got back from a job in NYCity in time for lunch with the crew, and she was able to get into the action and did most of the sanding on the mahogany piece we were working on.
The producer, Laurie Hepburn, I think has 3 or 4 Emmys to her credit, as does the cameraman, Gary Nardilla. The next day I googled Gary, and saw he'd done shoots of Madonna, and also Mariel Hemingway, WOW !! He did many very close-in shots of the tools blasting sawdust all over the place. Also, many "beauty shots" of finished work. I felt I did poorly, when talking about my work and so on, but Laurie assured me it went OK and would be fine through the magic of editing. I don't know when the segment will show. People have told me it's a real big deal to be featured on the Martha Show, and they've asked ominously, "Are you ready?"
I should really get to work and stack up some inventory in case people start calling me out of the blue. I can only make so many bowls in a year, so..... I still haven't gotten a digital camera or any photos up anywhere. But I did just register a domain name... http://www.kipeggert.com/ which should be "up" in 2 days, and I think I can put a brief description of what I do on the site, and an email address as well... kipeggert@yahoo.com Small but necessary steps, like sanding.
The past month has been busy. A film crew from the Martha Stewart Show was here all day on Friday Nov. 2nd, shooting the entire process of making a sculptural bowl, from taking a block off the stack, to chain-sawing the edges, and every step in between until 320 grit and signing then oiling the piece. Luckily my assistant Natasha got back from a job in NYCity in time for lunch with the crew, and she was able to get into the action and did most of the sanding on the mahogany piece we were working on.
The producer, Laurie Hepburn, I think has 3 or 4 Emmys to her credit, as does the cameraman, Gary Nardilla. The next day I googled Gary, and saw he'd done shoots of Madonna, and also Mariel Hemingway, WOW !! He did many very close-in shots of the tools blasting sawdust all over the place. Also, many "beauty shots" of finished work. I felt I did poorly, when talking about my work and so on, but Laurie assured me it went OK and would be fine through the magic of editing. I don't know when the segment will show. People have told me it's a real big deal to be featured on the Martha Show, and they've asked ominously, "Are you ready?"
I should really get to work and stack up some inventory in case people start calling me out of the blue. I can only make so many bowls in a year, so..... I still haven't gotten a digital camera or any photos up anywhere. But I did just register a domain name... http://www.kipeggert.com/ which should be "up" in 2 days, and I think I can put a brief description of what I do on the site, and an email address as well... kipeggert@yahoo.com Small but necessary steps, like sanding.
