Thom Sturgill
07-31-2010, 1:41 PM
I haven't posted for awhile and will be out of town next weekend so I'm posting these for your consideration. First some pens - They are a Jr Gentelman's II in redwood burl (for pen exchange), a 'Clicker' in olive and an Americana in black and white ebony.
Next, I ordered a steady rest a month or so ago from fellow Creeker Jeff Nicol, So here's the proof of gloat and the piece I needed it for. This is still a work-in-progress, but if finished it may go to NC with me for my mom's 90th birthday! There will not be a foot, it will cut off about 1/4" below the bottom of the staves. This is my first attempt at a staved vessel and I consider it a prototype for some fiddleback maple that my mom passed on to me after dad died. Woods are maple and cherry.
Next is the top for the 'box'. The finial and the two ornaments were turned last month at a weekend course with Alan Leland at the John C Campbell Folk School in western NC.
Next, I ordered a steady rest a month or so ago from fellow Creeker Jeff Nicol, So here's the proof of gloat and the piece I needed it for. This is still a work-in-progress, but if finished it may go to NC with me for my mom's 90th birthday! There will not be a foot, it will cut off about 1/4" below the bottom of the staves. This is my first attempt at a staved vessel and I consider it a prototype for some fiddleback maple that my mom passed on to me after dad died. Woods are maple and cherry.
Next is the top for the 'box'. The finial and the two ornaments were turned last month at a weekend course with Alan Leland at the John C Campbell Folk School in western NC.