Hollow forms

[john taylor]

It has been a while since I posted any of my work, mainly due to ill health and not being able to turn so now I am back to doing some turning I thought it was time to post some things.

Last year I had a two day hollow form course with George and Mark which was very good as they are both good teachers and I learnt a lot and solved a number of problems I was having with hollow forms.

I have been practising mainly with small forms but also larger ones and below are some pictures of ones that haven't yet made it into the scrap bin.







And a couple of larger ones, these are in Olive and are 7" high and 6" wide






All comments and critiques welcome, I have a thick skin or is that head. 

john

[woodndesign]

Hi John, Good to see you posting and hope you're fully recovered from the illness and back to full strength.

Can't see any of these are worthy of the bin, their all excellent piece, each one has it's own character.

Like the olive ones, nice orientation with the grain, you've put into practice, what you'd learnt into them all.  Well done.

Cheers  David
   

[john taylor]

Thank you David.

john

[GBF]

Hi John.
They are lovely and to be honest I would not want to choose a favourite.

Regards George

[john taylor]

Thank you George your comment is much appreciated.

john

[georg]

  A nice selection of forms and woods John....... Especially like the olive ones.
  Tony & Di

[Les Symonds]

A really pleasant set of pieces and if I had to choose, it would be the penultimate piece, both for the grain and for the form.
Les

[john taylor]

Thank you your comments are appreciated.

john

[Mark Sanger]

It is good to see you back posting John and hope you are on track to full recovery. Great micro forms, if I can call them that  we always like to make massive pieces but often small works just as well as you have shown here, keep them coming and thank you for sharing. 

[john taylor]

Thank you Mark

I like doing big pieces but these small ones helped me sort out technique as well as playing with form and it doesnt hurt so much when the form doesnt work or the inside gets bigger than the outside 

Mind you I brought a very nice small bit of rippled chestnut for my next one which will be fun, it is only 8" square and 18" high. 

john

[edbanger]

Great looking pieces the Olive get my vote but that is by the slimmest margin 

Ed

[Bryan Milham]

John,

what do you use to hollow the small from with, I've never tried anything that small but we used to have a guy in the club that used a whole range of adapted allen keys to do things like this.

The firs on the large vases, I see Jupiter in it, all the bands of winds rushing around in the various layers, wonderful effect.

[john taylor]

Thank you, I used the smallest kelton hollowers on these.

I had a similar thought about that vase myself, the longer you look at it the more you see in it.

john

[Graham]

Hi John, sorry to hear you have been ill again, and glad to see you are getting better,
I like all the small forms and wouldn't want to pick the best.

Did you get to Daventry Wood Worx, is that where the rippled chestnut came from ?

[john taylor]

Hi Graham.

Thank you, I did get to Daventry ans yes I got that piece of chestnut there from Nigel at English hardwoods which is where I get most of my wood from.

I did see you there but you were on your way to your car with 2 tools and I didnt see you again after that otherwise I would off said hello.

john