Gary DeWitt
12-29-2005, 9:16 PM
Some of you are probably wondering if I would ever get around to turning something and getting a pic or two up here. Well, here they are.
Andy, you'll recognize the "segmented" one. It's about 7" long, paduk and cherry body with walnut finial. There is a piece of purpleheart in the center as well, hard to see.
The other one was turned wet from a friends' olive wood, I got most of the tree. Also about 7" long, finials are of an unknown but very hard, dark reddish brown wood. The little lidless "box" was a leftover scrap from the ornament, I just didn't want to toss it. I also wanted to see how a box would turn from green wood. Like butter! Of course, my basement smells like Italian food, perhaps olive oil, heh heh.
Both ornaments bodies were hollowed to lighten them up, the top finials have a tennon, but the bottom pieces have a mortise to recieve the tennon on the body.
Andy, you'll recognize the "segmented" one. It's about 7" long, paduk and cherry body with walnut finial. There is a piece of purpleheart in the center as well, hard to see.
The other one was turned wet from a friends' olive wood, I got most of the tree. Also about 7" long, finials are of an unknown but very hard, dark reddish brown wood. The little lidless "box" was a leftover scrap from the ornament, I just didn't want to toss it. I also wanted to see how a box would turn from green wood. Like butter! Of course, my basement smells like Italian food, perhaps olive oil, heh heh.
Both ornaments bodies were hollowed to lighten them up, the top finials have a tennon, but the bottom pieces have a mortise to recieve the tennon on the body.