Ash Vase (pic)

[Bill Grumbine]

Greetings everyone

One more from the shop. I finished this one a couple of weeks ago, an experiment in finishing to see if I can avoid that "yellow snow" finish that ash seems to take on when finished with oil based products.

<img src="http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/ashvase01.jpg">

This is a piece of ash from a tree I salvaged from the firewood pile a few years ago. As a bonus, I managed to embarrass my middle daughter, who was with me at the time. She hates it when I stop and ask people for wood. The bowl is approximately 7" high and 7 1/2" in diameter. The finish is Fuhr 355 waterborne varnish, sprayed on with an HVLP gun. It remains to be seen how yellow this thing will get, but the initial results re encouraging.

Thanks for taking a look.

Bill

[Howard Rosenberg]

And skill.
And judgement.
But, I must confess, I thought your headline meant a vase designed to hold cremated ashes.
Howard

[Garry Smith]

Very interesting piece. Nice work

Garry

[Nathan Hoffman]

I like the looks of that vase, Bill, and I like how the picture is in the middle of the text. How do you do that? Of course, I can't even get the smilies to insert into a post, so why should I be expected to attach pictures properly?

[Charles McKinley]

Hi Bill,

Another great piece. When you spray how do you mount the piece to spray clear to the bottom or do you simply turn it over?

Hi Nathan,
Make sure when you post you do not have the box checked that turns off the smiles and you have to go to the advanced posting to get smiles. ;)

[Gary Max]

Bill the top bark edge----did you have to soak that with CA to keep it from falling off??
Thanks
Love the vase.

[Bill Grumbine]

Thanks guys

Howard, I've done some urns in the past, but this ash wouldn't work very well for ashes! ;)

Gary, these piece are always interesting, especially as one gets down towards the bottom when hollowing out. Exciting might be a better word then though!

Nathan, the way to put the picture in the post wherever you want it works this way. First, you have to have it somewhere on the web. In my case this picture is on my personal website. Then, you need to do a little HTML coding. If a trained monkey like me can get it, the just about anyone can, although it takes a bit of practice to remember it. I had it written down for a long time before I finally committed it to memory. Let me see if I can write it so that it does not disappear into the background. Start out with the following code:

First you need a pointy bracket which points to the left. I cannot type it in because it comes up as a red X, but you will find it down on the comma key. Right after that, type in:

img src =

Then, type in the url of the picture enclosed in quotation marks:

"http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/ashvase01.jpg"

Finally, close the whole thing up with one last pointy bracket pointing to the right (the one on the period key), and if the address is right, the words magically disappear, and a picture appears:

<img src="http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/ashvase01.jpg">

All it takes to mess it all up and get a red X is one charater out of place, missing, or whatever. It has to be perfect.

Chuck, I have an articulated mount that swivels in any direction I need it to go - i.e. I hold it in my hand! :eek: Actually for most of it I am able to spray it while it is sitting on the bench on a scrap of wood, but the bottom is sprayed lightly first so that I can set it down. The same goes for the inside.

Gary, the bark on this one would not come off if it had to. There are other pieces where I soak the bark, but this ash is something else entirely. The bark is big and sort of like cork in places, so I had to be careful of breaking it off (and it did break in a couple), but for the most part, enough stayed on and it is all on down low so that I do not have to worry about gluing it on. It does not hurt to run a little glue around just to make sure though.

Bill

[Nathan Hoffman]

Thanks for the reply, Bill. I may not be quite up to trained monkey standards, but I may be able to figure it out!

[Brad Schmid]

Very nice Bill. I love the knarly thick bark of Ash. I've been spraying solvent based pre-cat laquer trying to achieve a non-yellowing finish and it seems to do a fairly decent job, but I need to try the Fuhr 355 that you mentioned. That's probably even better. Thanks for posting.

Brad