James Combs
11-12-2010, 10:51 PM
I was getting ready make this post but I always like to read a few new ones before I post my newest item. One post that was particularly interesting and thought provoking is "Bowls vs. Hollow Forms - why? (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=152110)" by John Beaver. It kinda hits home too in that not only am I posting a Vase I just finished but right behind it will be a NE bowl then a pen. I turn strictly for enjoyment and personal satisfaction. Sometimes it is a half dozen pens then it is a HF, then a bowl or even three snowmen (soon to be a post). I any case it is what I happen to feel like doing at the moment. Oh and I even did a couple of Whirly-gigs earlier this week.
Well enough digression, to the current post:
I may have had a recent acorn shaped birdhouse on my mind when I turned this olive-wood vase (Thanks Mike).As you can see it certainly resembles a large acorn with an open mouth.
Stats:
Material - as mentioned is olive-wood courtesy of Mike Minto.
Height - 5-5/8"
Width - 4-1/4"
Mouth Opening - 2"
Finish - First coat of 3 - Rattle can Lacquer
Notes:
- a very dry blank. That may be due to age and not the the nature of the wood because if I am not mistaken it had a magic marker date of '96 on it when I received it from Mike.
- seemed to be a very hard wood one of the hardest I have turned.
- you will notice a couple of sharp pointed oval defects on and under the "acorn lid". These are not natural defects. I had glued a waste block tenon on the blank so as not to waste any of it. I was in the process of parting it off with the steady rest in place and it parted prematurely at over one inch circumference. The glue separated. I had not sanded or preped the glue surface in anyway, that will now change:eek:. Anyway when it separated it got wedged between the remaining piece of wast block and the steady rest wheels and the waste block proceeded to burn several gouges in the HF while it was bouncing around and burned the large one after it wedged, all before I could hit the e-stop.:mad:
This photo shows the burns up close. Some coffee grounds and CA filled it in and I think It looks almost natural.???
167067
Please let me see your comments and critiques.
Well enough digression, to the current post:
I may have had a recent acorn shaped birdhouse on my mind when I turned this olive-wood vase (Thanks Mike).As you can see it certainly resembles a large acorn with an open mouth.
Stats:
Material - as mentioned is olive-wood courtesy of Mike Minto.
Height - 5-5/8"
Width - 4-1/4"
Mouth Opening - 2"
Finish - First coat of 3 - Rattle can Lacquer
Notes:
- a very dry blank. That may be due to age and not the the nature of the wood because if I am not mistaken it had a magic marker date of '96 on it when I received it from Mike.
- seemed to be a very hard wood one of the hardest I have turned.
- you will notice a couple of sharp pointed oval defects on and under the "acorn lid". These are not natural defects. I had glued a waste block tenon on the blank so as not to waste any of it. I was in the process of parting it off with the steady rest in place and it parted prematurely at over one inch circumference. The glue separated. I had not sanded or preped the glue surface in anyway, that will now change:eek:. Anyway when it separated it got wedged between the remaining piece of wast block and the steady rest wheels and the waste block proceeded to burn several gouges in the HF while it was bouncing around and burned the large one after it wedged, all before I could hit the e-stop.:mad:
This photo shows the burns up close. Some coffee grounds and CA filled it in and I think It looks almost natural.???
167067
Please let me see your comments and critiques.