The story behind this is on my blog, so I won't type it all again here, but...
A very, very rotton piece of ash, that ended up very shallow after removing the worst (Ha!) of the spalt. So a sit down form was out and I put a pedestal on it (not really my kind of thing, but what else was there to do). Then it needed a top to balance it...so a finial top...
But I wanted the finial to look different from the norm...
Now I'm not sure at all...
on the fire, new finial, or something else?