I've been wanting to meet John for quite some time and after his heart attack, I decided not to put it off any longer. So, this weekend, I drove up to his place in KY and we had a SUPER visit. I can't say enough good stuff about John and Eileen. They were and are just plain great people. I got to John's place about 9:30 Saturday morning and after a brief visit, John took me out to his shop and we sort of went to work. (He did all the work and I watched.) I had brought some Maple burls that I wanted John to give me some ideas about what to make out of them. Well, even better, he said, "we can work on one of these if you want to." So, without further adu, John proceeded to show me his method of approaching and actually doing a hollow form. Here are a few pictures.
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John showed me a unique way of parting the top off the hollow form from the inside.
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We decided to add a walnut ring to the form which is something I wanted to do anyway.
John just went right to work on that without even slowing down.