Woven Spiral

[Scott Hackler]

Here is the end result of a HF trade on Woodturners America, with Chuck Jones. Very similar to the last pyro'd piece but I thought it might be different to throw in a spiraling pattern wrapping around, from the top to the bottom.

Turned from some more of that plain Jane silver maple. About 6 1/2" tall and 3 1/4" wide. Black dye on the outside and satin lacquer to seal it up. African blackwood finial.

Comments and critiques are always welcome, thanks.

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[Billy Tallant]

That one is a beauty Scott! Amazing work done on that piece...

[BILL DONAHUE]

Scott, that's really gorgeous! Wish I could see more pictures or even study it in person. Is the basketweave or checkerboard pattern made with a woodburner as Molly Winton does? How are the oval shaped patterns made? Great job!

[charlie knighton]

very nice, black is hard to do, good job.......i like all spirals...this one espically nice

[Harry Robinette]

Really nice work Scott love the pyro and the shape also.

[David DeCristoforo]

Sweet! Not too "Plain Jane" anymore...

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful piece Scott. I like it a lot.

[Scott Hackler]

Scott, that's really gorgeous! Wish I could see more pictures or even study it in person. Is the basketweave or checkerboard pattern made with a woodburner as Molly Winton does? How are the oval shaped patterns made? Great job! Bill, the pattern was branded in with a woodburner. Molly makes her own little coil and double stamps for her "pattern". I use a 1/4" flat tip and brand 5-6 lines and then rotate 90 degrees. For the spiral pattern I made a teardrop-esk tip and use that, but often it stamped something that looked like a backwards "6"!

[Kathy Marshall]

Beautiful piece Scott! I think the spiral adds to what was already a beautiful piece. I'm sure Chuck is going to love it!
A little off topic.... where do you get your nichrome wire from?

[Michelle Rich]

you made plain Jack maple into a piece of art. This maybe my favorite of your pieces. the spiral decoration just makes this sing. Your finial is up to your usual standards.

[Tim Rinehart]

Wonderful work Scott. You and your burner are becoming 'one'! I need to practice more with mine...patience is biggest thing. Stuff like this takes some concentration and focus that blurs easily (for me anyway)!

[Ken Glass]

Scott,
This is an excellent piece. It flows from top to bottom and the pyro pattern adds a very nice feature to it. The color is also a great choice. Well Done.

[Paul Singer]

Kathy,

I just bought some nichrome wire from "http://jacobs-online.biz/nichrome_wire.htm". They have it in 10ft. pieces which works good for me and it was $7.25 for the 18 gauge with free shipping.

[Scott Hackler]

Paul is on to something here. DON'T get conned into buying a bunch of the NiChrome wire. I bought 2 different gauges of it and I believe both rolls were 25' rolls. I have only used about 6" total wire! So by my calculations, my 2 rolls of 25' is a 10 year+ supply! I could see the possiblity of some very fine wire eventually "burning out" but even with my Burnmaster cranked all the way up to LAVA, I am still using the same homemade tips. Just an FYI.

[Rick Markham]

This is a super sweet form Scott, fantastic texture too!

[Brent VanFossen]

I love this piece!

[Steve bellinger]

Scott great job on a really sweet piece. Now that i seen what Chuck swaped for this, i think you bouth had something going on here with the black texture.:)

[Steve Schlumpf]

Beautiful work Scott! Love the extended form and all the detail work! Congrats on getting the cover honors on WOW! Well done!

[Alan Trout]

Congratulations on the cover over at WOW. Like I said over there that everything just works well together. Wonderful piece.

Alan