"Elder Snifter"

[Scott Hackler]

Here is a little elevated box elder cup on african blackwood. Finished in BLO and lacquer. About 4 1/2" x 4 1/2".

Comments and critques always welcome. Thanks.

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[Salvatore Buscemi]

Ha! I hope you mean snifter! I was expecting to see something used to smell old people!

[Scott Hackler]

ooops... fixed!

[bob svoboda]

Beautiful wood. I like the way you used the natural edge. A very interesting and entertaining shape. Nicely done, Scott.

[Dan Forman]

Very unusual piece, wood has a lot of character.

Dan

[Kurt Barker]

Very cool! I like the pedestal. It shows the piece very nicely!

ktb

[John Keeton]

That's pretty cute, Scott!! Beautiful piece of BE. So, I guess one could "snift" elderberry wine in it, too - given the name!

[Baxter Smith]

That must work exceedingly well. I am feeling a little tipsy just looking at it!

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking piece Scott. I like John's idea of elderberry or choke cherry wine sipping it on the back deck.

[Scott Hackler]

I will admit that its a little wierd, but I like wierd. This chunk of box edler was a cut off chunk from another project. This wood is so darn cool looking that I couldn't stand to not do something with it, so this was started as a fat bottomed form and ended up looking like a warped brandy snifter...so out came the african blackwood and ..... :) Its not gonna win any awards but it is visually interesting and that was enough to satisfy me.

Thanks for the comments

[David E Keller]

This is an interesting piece, Scott. It almost looks like the top is melted which I think is cool. I agree with you about the wood... It's too nice not to turn.

[Tim Thiebaut]

That is pretty cool Scott, I like this piece alot, I agree it appears to have melted to one side and gives it a very unique look, and I really like the black pedistal/stem it is on, nice form on it.