cactus juice

I have a piece of redwood burl that broke off a live edge coffee table that I'd like to turn into hybrid blanks. The burl was cut by my grandfather, who owned a sawmill in the California redwoods, over 70 years ago, so it has sentimental value for the family. The coffee table was finished...

Hello everyone, Wanted to see if someone could give me a "sanity check" on something. Got my new vacuum pot in the mail today and was going about setting it up. Like expected, has a small hole in the top for the vacuum line/gauge to go through into the pot. It came with 2 steel washers and 2...

Hi all, I just wanted to ask your thoughts on the following stabilizing processes: Run vacuum pump for 2 hours, hold vacuum for a length of time and bring to atmosphere allowing blanks to soak, repeat till bubbles stop. Run vacuum pump for 2 hours, hold vacuum, repeat till bubbles stop...

These "turned" out way better than I thought. They are all hybrids with stabilized red box elder (thanks to cactus juice) and alumilite. The blue silver one is clear alumilite with blue dye with blue pearlex and clear alumilite with antique silver pearlex - approximately 80%/20% mix...

Hey all, I've tried to search for this, but there is so much information on this forum about "resins" that it's difficult to find anything that directly answers this question. Being that both Cactus Juice and Stickfast stabilizing resins are so expensive, what are alternatives? Are there any...

Since I was cursed with this hobby a few months ago, I find I'm easily distracted by wood I see lying around. If I'm out for a walk, I'll pick something up and put it in a pile I started of "interesting finds" in the garage.This past week I finally got around to picking ten or so out of the pile...

I have been stablizing some spalted Hackberry with Cactus Juice and love the results... the blank went from .7oz to 2.0oz and they turn awesome... and finish well... I have plenty and would like to trade 15 of them for other woods or acrylics you have done... Let me know if you are interested...

I bought a few blanks from TurnTex "MesquiteMan" at MAPG last year. Been overly busy with other stuff and decided to dig them out. Here is my first one... Spalted Texas Pecan. Looking forward to playing with more of these and perhaps picking up a few more this year. CtL

I didn't want to make an experimental mess if someone has already tried this. Simply, has anyone used the white alumilite dye with cactus juice ?? And what were the results ?? Brad