Alan Trout
09-05-2011, 12:47 AM
Well this is my beastly contest entrant on another forum. I call it "Many Little Monsters"
It took many little monsters to create all the holes, and void's to give me the opportunity to create this piece so that is how I came up with the name. But there is a ghastly component to this piece. In September of 2008 I got my right hand caught in my 12" jointer. I was very lucky I only lost 1/2" off of my middle finger and severed the nerve in my index finger. Right before I had this accident I was prepping this blank to be my first cast vessel. Well that did not happen and has set on my shelf the last few years. When this opportunity came up I figured it would make an appropriate "Beast".
It is a piece of spalted, rotten, wormy, hackberry that I found on a brush collection day in my neighborhood. It was cast in a dark blue and red resin. The collar was intended to be blackwood but I did not have any and went to my Local Woodcraft to pick up a piece. I quickly changed my my as I did not feel like spending the $40 to make the collar. I figured that I had resin and I might as well cast a black piece to make the collar. The piece is finished in CA and buffed to a high gloss. It was very difficult to control the glare on this piece for the photo.
As always comments welcome.
Thanks,
Alan
It took many little monsters to create all the holes, and void's to give me the opportunity to create this piece so that is how I came up with the name. But there is a ghastly component to this piece. In September of 2008 I got my right hand caught in my 12" jointer. I was very lucky I only lost 1/2" off of my middle finger and severed the nerve in my index finger. Right before I had this accident I was prepping this blank to be my first cast vessel. Well that did not happen and has set on my shelf the last few years. When this opportunity came up I figured it would make an appropriate "Beast".
It is a piece of spalted, rotten, wormy, hackberry that I found on a brush collection day in my neighborhood. It was cast in a dark blue and red resin. The collar was intended to be blackwood but I did not have any and went to my Local Woodcraft to pick up a piece. I quickly changed my my as I did not feel like spending the $40 to make the collar. I figured that I had resin and I might as well cast a black piece to make the collar. The piece is finished in CA and buffed to a high gloss. It was very difficult to control the glare on this piece for the photo.
As always comments welcome.
Thanks,
Alan