Cherry Hollow Form

[edbanger]

I've just finished this Cherry hollow form I'll call it a hollow form as the neck is much smaller than the body, but you might call it a vase

It's 400mm x 240mm

Fingers crossed it get better feedback than the monkey puzzle as I like this one far more myself

C&C's welcome

Ed

[bodrighywood]

I think that the technical definition of a hollow form is that the entrance should be no more than a third the diameter of the body or something like that. I like the very traditional shape of this vase personally and the lovely wood just makes it that much better. Reminiscent of the Japanese vases in shape and style.

Pete

[edbanger]

Hi Pete

Well the neck at it's narrowest is 70mm so does that make it a hollow-form-vase 

I'm with you the wood the patten is lovely

thanks

Ed

[woodndesign]

Ed, that's one wild piece of Cherry and the form, definitely you've got it right, as with the finish.

Well done and thank you for sharing.   David

[Les Symonds]

Hi Ed....I take my hat off to you, it's a good'n, and a good size, to boot. Lovely marking in the grain; is it spalting? I'm not familiar with this effect in cherry.

Les

[edbanger]

Hi Les

Yes there a bit of spalting going on the trunk had started to rot quite badly. I have another piece from this trunk that I'll spin up this weekend hopefully the grain will look as good.

Ed

[Graham]

Thats a cracking good vase. The classical shape is just right and the spalting in the cherry ( which I have never seen before ) really gives it some punch.

[georg]

    ED  You have made a really nice job of a really nice piece of cherry.
      Tony and Di

[TWiG]

You do like a challenge don't you !! First the Holly vessel and now Cherry , another wood that is very prone to warping and cracking  so well done again !   Did you do this from green ?  Roughly how thick are the vessel walls ?  Has it cracked yet ?  Did you find the wood blunted the tools quite often ?  and finally I can recommend  Eucalyptus or Mimosa as 2 other "difficult "woods for you to try   ha ha !!

[Bryan Milham]

At 400mm high that's a hell of a vase, never mind hollowing it through a 70mm neck, well done.

Yes it's far better than the Monkey Puzzle, the form flows far better through it's length (height).

I am fairly sure there are lines visible that run across the form. Are there?

I'm guessingif there are, then it's from the application of the finish! How are you finishing your work to achieve the high shine?, I'm thinking you might be over applying one of the finishes or not cutting it back sufficiently before stepping onto the next part of the process.

[edbanger]

In answer to the questions

It's was turned from green and the vessel walls around 5mm, it did start to crack, the tools were sharpen often and very well spotted there are a couple of lines in the CA which I could not seem to get out, I'm thinking that I'll mount it on my vacuum chuck with a jam chuck so I can re-spin it and sand it right back. The high shine comes from the CA and I'm using this on the wood to stop the cracks I find if you rub it down before it get's to dry then the sanding dust mixes with the CA and fills and hides the cracks but that's where the lines have come from. On the last coat of CA I use burnishing cream and you get the high shine.

Oh I've got a a lump of Eucalyptus that's going to be turned very soon

Ed

[Eric Harvey]

looking good Ed,I call em vases personaly when their that shape,but it depends on the person,everyone has different ways of describing things,nice bit of spalting and great grain pattern to,cheers,

Eric.

[Bryan Milham]

Finished in CA, that's a lot of CA. I know penturners use it as a finish but you've got to be the only person using it on such large forms.

(Go on, prove me wrong folks!)

[edbanger]

there's a problem with trying to use the CA on large forms it leaves some lines I took the vase back to wood today and tried it again but there are still some lines, it either needs the thinner CA or I need to get some cutting compound to see that will flatten out the lines.

I watch a video on CA finishing on pens and tried it on a small piece of wood and the finish is great if you want a high gloss, as the vase was showing a few cracks I thought I give the CA a go to stop the cracks and to get the high gloss finish and that works well.

I'll let you know how I get on, once I finish playing around.

Ed

[woodndesign]

Is it just CA or are you using Boil Linseed Oil (BLO) as well, as you mention watching the CA finish for pens, where they mix CA & BLO.

Cheers   David