{"id":3845,"date":"2022-06-17T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:45:33","slug":"more-leopardwood-bowls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/more-leopardwood-bowls\/","title":{"rendered":"More Leopardwood Bowls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I have covered Leopardwood in both pen blank<\/a> (including all the usual data) and bowl formats<\/a> before so I won’t repeat that information here.<\/p>\n Leopardwood falls firmly into the category of woods I do NOT want to work with again. There are several reasons for this, and at the risk of repeating myself from the first post about bowls, I’ll state them again. First, Leopardwood does not cut cleanly and is in fact rather chippy and this makes sanding a colossal nightmare, made worse by the fact that Leopardwood loads the sandpaper in seconds so you will go through a great deal of it, and that gets expensive quickly. To give an idea of how hard Leopardwood is to sand out, consider that I eventually resorted to a 40 grit belt sander loop to try to cut through the mess. And even THAT took lots of time and effort.<\/p>\n