Pierced Aspen HF

[Scott Hackler]

It's been a mad dash over the last 2-3 weeks trying to get pieces finished for the trip to SWAT this year. This is one of the finished pieces.

Aspen, about 5" tall, 1/8" thick walls and rattle can lacquer to top it off. About 8-10 hours of piercing.

Comments and complaints are always welcome!

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[David Walser]

Complaints? My only complaint is that its not mine!

[Tom Giacomo]

Very nice work a beautiful piece.

[Mike Turner]

Very nice piece!!

[Bob Bergstrom]

That is going to get a lot of rave reviews, excellent form, execution, and just down right gorgeous piece. Way to go Scott

[Mike Goetzke]

Scott - I like both of the pieces you posted. The shapes are very pleasing and bottoms are proportioned perfectly (at least to my eye). I'm a newer turner and was wondering what determines if you top the HF off with a finial or not?

Thanks,

Mike

[Scott Hackler]

Mike, for me I generally do two types of hollow forms. Pierced and not. I will do a finial if it is NOT going to be pierced, just to dress it up a bit. With a piercedull form, I believe they are too busy for the finial. Thanks for the comments everyone.

[Roger Chandler]

Hubba, Hubba! :D Beautiful form, and the overall quality of this piece is certainly high end and superbly designed and desireable for collectors art. Nice work, Scott!

[Doug Ladendorf]

Love the design Scott, and the form is beautifully shaped. Can you tell us a bit about how you marked off the piercing design?

Doug

[William C Rogers]

Definitely an art work. Beautiful and love the shape.

[Klaus Waldeck]

How do you do that? With a Roto-Zip or something? It looks like something that would be done best on a scroll saw if not for the other side of the vase getting in the way. I think a jig saw would be too cumbersome.

[Peter Blair]

Another signature piece, Scott. Thanks for posting it. Your photo skills are just about as good as your turnings are!

[daryl moses]

Another beautiful piece. Outstanding in every way.

[Allan Wright]

Your pierced items always astonish me. The work in doing the piercing must far out weigh the time spent turning. The randomness of the pierced sections is part of the beauty. I'm not sure I'd ever be able to get them looking so regular and still keep them so random.

Lovely piece.

[Doug Herzberg]

All three so far today are lovely, but this one looks like perfection. It's good to see you posting again, Scott.

[mike pockoski]

Bravo! Beautiful work!

[Jeramie Johnson]

Gorgeous work. For someone asking, one of the ways these are created are by airbrushing on the design, then using a Pneumatic carver to follow your desired design. Masking can be done to help reduce mistakes. Amazing work here and such skill to have no flaws.

[Scott Hackler]

For what it's worth, I lay out basic lines and free hand the piercings. Usually I pierce the whole thing, but am experimenting with border patterns. Thanks for the comments everyone.

[Jeramie Johnson]

For what it's worth, I lay out basic lines and free hand the piercings. Usually I pierce the whole thing, but am experimenting with border patterns. Thanks for the comments everyone.

And note all his little lines, the steady hand to not accidentally run one into the next and lose the effect. Well done.

[Dok Yager]

Yowzer thats one Sweet piece Scott! Man I can`t wait to be able to get back to turning.