Roger Chandler
05-06-2014, 8:16 PM
I was just experimenting with this today. At the upcoming symposium in Virginia in September, I am slated to demo/mentor and the powers that be asked me to do 3 sided bowls, as no one else on the program was doing anything like 3 sided forms. It has been a while since I had done a 3-sided bowl, so I thought that I would try to accomplish dual purposes by using up some scrap and get some practice in and have some variation on the theme to show at the demo/mentor session.
I took the cube of spalted maple and did what one does to orient the blank so I could get the 3 points and chose to cut away the bottom set of points and make it a deeper form, because I wanted to try a dome lid and finial..............I did not have enough of the spalted maple to make the lid [which would have looked better in my opinion] so I decided a contrasting wood might fit the bill.........so I had a walnut scrap and used it.
This does not have a final finish on it as of yet, and is still a work in progress...........I have some more sanding and then put some more coats of finish .......at present it is a very matte/dull finish, but that will change and hopefully the look will improve.
While I personally think the concept is good, the woods so far just leave me ambivalent about this piece and I now wonder if I had made a shallower form with the bottom points if it might have looked better with more of a flared out form and points.........to me, it sort of curves too upward with the upper points.............what do you think?
I made two finials.........the first one was better than this one, but the base blew out on me! :mad: and the finial is not glued in and I will probably replace it with a better one....... I will finish this out as an example of the upper points being used, and probably also make another using the bottom points...........so the audience can see the difference in design choices/results. For the demo, I will do a basic 3 sided bowl, but some variations on the theme will make for a better presentation, I think.........
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I took the cube of spalted maple and did what one does to orient the blank so I could get the 3 points and chose to cut away the bottom set of points and make it a deeper form, because I wanted to try a dome lid and finial..............I did not have enough of the spalted maple to make the lid [which would have looked better in my opinion] so I decided a contrasting wood might fit the bill.........so I had a walnut scrap and used it.
This does not have a final finish on it as of yet, and is still a work in progress...........I have some more sanding and then put some more coats of finish .......at present it is a very matte/dull finish, but that will change and hopefully the look will improve.
While I personally think the concept is good, the woods so far just leave me ambivalent about this piece and I now wonder if I had made a shallower form with the bottom points if it might have looked better with more of a flared out form and points.........to me, it sort of curves too upward with the upper points.............what do you think?
I made two finials.........the first one was better than this one, but the base blew out on me! :mad: and the finial is not glued in and I will probably replace it with a better one....... I will finish this out as an example of the upper points being used, and probably also make another using the bottom points...........so the audience can see the difference in design choices/results. For the demo, I will do a basic 3 sided bowl, but some variations on the theme will make for a better presentation, I think.........
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