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Blair Swing
08-12-2016, 7:44 AM
Here is the completed Dark Side of the Moon and taking it this weekend to the Texas State Fair for annual judging.

Completed base was was designed around an undercounter LED light and illuminates through the one large stained glass piece in the bottom the 32 stained glass craters within the vessel, on the Dark Side, so to speak. All together, with 124 pieces in the base, 652 pieces of wood, 33 pieces of glass the LED and a button from one of my old army uniforms that turns on the proximity switch.

Woods used Bubinga, Ebony, Purpleheart, Cherry, Massarundba and various colored veneers make up this concept piece. 342215342216
John Grace
08-12-2016, 10:13 AM
Uh...WOW, great stuff.
Bruce Wilson
08-12-2016, 11:11 AM
Don't bother going to the fair. I hereby give you first place.342221
robert baccus
08-13-2016, 12:50 AM
Wow--so many pieces and still have great shape and balance.
Blair Swing
08-31-2016, 8:09 PM
4th Time was the charm! Received notice that I was honored this year with my first Blue Ribbon at the Texas State Fair, "Turned Wood, Any" category!
David Delo
08-31-2016, 8:23 PM
Congrats to you Blair. Very nice work and well deserved.
daryl moses
08-31-2016, 8:48 PM
Congrats!! I had no doubt you would win.
Beautiful piece!!
Jebediah Eckert
08-31-2016, 9:14 PM
All in all you are no longer just another brick in the wall!

Congrats, cool piece.
Ron Stadler
08-31-2016, 9:46 PM
Inspiration, inspiration, Inspiration. WOW!
Frederick Skelly
09-01-2016, 6:30 AM
Best of luck at the fair. Anything capable of beating THAT work would have to be .... well, if there's a better job than yours I'd sure like to see it. Because this is simply phenomenal. (And I'm not even a Pink Floyd fan. :eek: )

Please let us know how it goes.
Fred
Billy Tallant
09-02-2016, 1:34 PM
Stunning work on that vase! Looks fantastic. Congrats on that blue ribbon!
Blair Swing
09-03-2016, 3:06 AM
All in all you are no longer just another brick in the wall!

Congrats, cool piece.

Ah yes, February 1980, went skiing for the first time ever, (actually I believe I went falling more that day) near Winterpark Colorado, snowed in that night at Berthoud Pass and couldn't make it back to Denver, staying one more night in a beautiful A-frame cabin, with a huge window, listening to "The Wall" for the first time, as the snow fell softly by the window.

Music, and all forms of art, can trigger powerful memories, thanks for that one!