Giri’s chairs can be customized to ones hearts’ desire. Make ‘em tall, short, fat, skinny, lumbar curve, no lumbar curve, cherry, walnut, maple, exotic woods, he’s all ears.

Born and raised in the Czech Republic, Giri Kalona recently immigrated to the United States. Today, he resides in Wilmington NC where he pursues his dream of creating these fine rocking chairs. Price $2600.00

Please visit Barouke to purchase a Rocking Chair lovingly handcrafted by Giri.

Let’s say for example, you would like to apply the perfect finish to a lovely wood bowl you have just finished turning on a lathe–well not so fast,  power up that tool once more–you will need to do some power sanding as follows:

1. Power sand on lathe using 80 grit paper all the way up to 180 grit.
2. Remove bowl from the lathe.
3. Hand-sand but this time use 150 grit paper working all the way up to 400  grit.
4. Now turn bowl around, place on vacuum chuck and sand using 80 grit paper all the way up to 180 grit then hand-sand using 150 grit working up to 400 grit once more.
5. Placing the bowl on a work bench, wet bowl down to raise the grain.
6. Place Abralon pads on an orbital sander and start sanding again this time using 180-360-500 and lastly 1000 grits.
7. Apply 1st coating of mineral oil to the entire bowl and let dry for 24 hours.
8. Sand bowl using Abralon pads 260-500 and finally 1000 grits.
9. Apply 2nd coat of mineral oil to the bowl.
10. Test your finish by placing a gnat on the bowl at an angle. If this gnat slides off and break his legs then you’ve applied the perfect finish to your bowl.

We will be happy to answer any questions (courtesy of David Yeatts) you might have about this article but through this blog only.

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Lignum-vitae Wood Goblet

Some would say, milk is the answer–good old-fashioned whole milk. Pour it into the goblet, leave it for a few hours and this is suppose to seal the leak. There’s just one thing, this method does not always work.

Does anyone here have the solution to this problem?