I have been able to go out and have some fun. I made two bottle toppeers, they turned out almost identical almost by accident. I know if I was trying to make two the exact same I would have ended up with tow completely different or some kind of disaster. that's just the way it goes. The second one I was trying to make here I wanted two round beads on the top end of it vs. an exact copy of the first. Well while I was cutting I kind of just followed the other ones and before I knew it I had a scooped out cove shape and a ridge and a ball on the top and they were the same. I did measure the diameters a few (well ok 20 times or more) once I decided they would end up the same.
These topper are turned using two pieces of Purpleheart wood that I laminated together. If you click on the pictures and look at the super sized version you can see the lamination line on one of them. When you are holding them and playing with them you can't really tell I used two pieces of wood. The Purple heart wood is very nice to work with it cuts cleanly and finished very nicely. One thing I have notices it when you first finish it, the color takes on a slight brown tone. Then after about a week in the sun and light it turns a deeper brighter purple color. This was something I was let down about when I finished my frist topper about a week ago. It looked brown to me, now the second one has a bit of brown in it and the first one is more purple.
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