Feelin Blue ... Added a Red one

John_NY · August 16, 2008, 07:31:47 PM

I got a little daring today and tried to color a call. I made this howler from a piece of maple. I used a blue sharpie to color the wood. I had to take the insides out of the sharpie to get a good coat of blue on it.

I wonder if it will ever come off my thumbnail. LOL.

John

alscalls · August 16, 2008, 07:44:41 PM

That is interesting..what the heck made ya do that?
Can ya tell it was wood?

John_NY · August 16, 2008, 08:46:38 PM

the devil made me do it. LOL... I don't know, I was turning a call and noticed a set of sharpie markers hanging on the shop wall and thought,what to heck the worst that could happen is I'll throw it out. Yeah up close you can tell it's wood. I put quite a few coats of carnauba wax on it. It kinda feels like plastic. After I got the ink on it, I used a wet paper towel while it was spinning on the lathe to kinda even out the color.

John

FinsnFur · August 16, 2008, 08:53:14 PM

I think it's a pretty clever idea. Kinda using the sharpie ink as a stain.

You can still see the grain beneath it just like regular stain.

You may be on the brink of a new era John

Unless of course this is old news and the oxygen found a way under my rock again.

alscalls · August 16, 2008, 08:54:25 PM

pretty cool john

John_NY · August 16, 2008, 11:44:49 PM

What do you think about a red sharpie? I just finished this one this evening.

John

HaMeR · August 17, 2008, 07:30:28 AM

Purdy neat John!!

coyote101 · August 17, 2008, 07:32:17 AM

I kind of like them.

Pat

iahntr · August 17, 2008, 08:09:33 AM

Purdy cool John
It's always fun to mess with different things

Scott

alscalls · August 17, 2008, 09:50:02 AM

I like it!!! You should do an Orange one and teeze you know who.........

FinsnFur · August 17, 2008, 10:10:10 AM

Oh listen to you

blacky · August 17, 2008, 11:45:23 AM

Real nice John. That is a good idea you came up with.

John_NY · August 17, 2008, 01:56:21 PM

I can't take credit for the idea but I did think they look, well maybe not the best but atleast different.

I'll see if I can find an orange sharpie.

My sister said she has some sort of pickle dye? in green I'm going to try one of these days when I get over to her house. I guess it makes sense, pickles are green. LOL.

John

YoteCoaxer · August 27, 2008, 01:51:30 PM

Pretty good idea, and they look cool too!

John_NY · August 27, 2008, 11:08:08 PM

I gotta make some more of these. Both of them sold already.

John