Candle stand

[Les Symonds]

Sorry folks, but there's more scorching going on. That wonderful hotel that is currently buying my work to 'dress' their lounges, has commissioned a couple of pairs of chunky candle-stands. This is the prototype, which will be winging its way to them in the morning. It's 60cm tall and the column is 7.5cm diameter, with an 18cm base. The column cap has a metal candle-spike dish set flush into its top surface. There wasn't much of a brief to work to for this, beyond the fact that they liked some scorched bowls that I'd made recently and wanted to include the colour/texture in the columns. I bought a new blow torch for this job, as I've been using one of those tiny chef's torches for recent scorched work, and that made the process much quicker and less hit-and-miss. I scorch, scour with a brass-wired brush, then scrub with a toothbrush heavily loaded with lime-wax. The whole piece is then waxed with microcrystaline and buffed.











C&C always welcome....Les

[GBF]

You could do these any size they are a bit like Roman columns


Regards George

[bodrighywood]

Only thing I would perhaps do differently is to make the base a bit wider for stability, especially on really big ones, amazing how people manage to knock things like this over.

Pete

[Les Symonds]

You could do these any size they are a bit like Roman columns


Regards George

Cheers George, they'd asked for a classical look, so I'm pleased that you mentioned that.

Only thing I would perhaps do differently is to make the base a bit wider for stability, especially on really big ones, amazing how people manage to knock things like this over.

Pete

It's as wide as I could make it for the mantlepiece, which is 20cm wide. I think that because the column is so chunky, it makes the base look a little bit narrow, but it really is very stable.

Les

[bodrighywood]

If it's out of the way on a mantlepiece it should be safe. As you say it is probably the proportion

pete

[Steve Jones]

Nice work Les.
A 180mm base is amble on a 600mm tall candlestick. As you say its the large column hat gives the impression of being small.

[bodrighywood]

OK guys LOL. I take it back. 

Pete

[edbanger]

The scorched/brushed thing is very effective Les

Like the way it sits together.

All the best

Ed

[Bryan Milham]

Les,

I understand what you mean about fitting onto a mantlepiece, thats what the customer wants, that's what the customer gets. Very classic in shape, columns with terminals. Did the customer specify or you design.

I do sometimes make my church candlesticks big enough to take up-to 3" candles so they need to be floor-standing or at least on the hearth.

[Les Symonds]

....Did the customer specify or you design....

The client is brilliant, I met the management team at the hotel (who all know my work) and they gave me a very simple brief....they liked a big, heavy candle-stand that I already had on display there, so they left it up to me to tweak my design to give it a classical feel. This was my solution.

The owner of another hotel, which is currently being converted into a 5-star country house hotel, saw the candlestands in the shop before I delivered them, and ordered a set, so I've been turning and scorching a lot this week.
Les

[Bryan Milham]

Les,

your fast becoming a One-Man success story for woodturners up there in deepest, darkest Wales. Keep up the good work, you'll soon have us all wanting to open a woodturning retail shop.

[georg]

   Don't know how we missed this Les.... very Classical in design and as always well turned and finished.
   Kind Regards
   Tony & Di

[Les Symonds]

These really hit the spot with a couple of local hotels and I just made the eighth pair.....but I still haven't got a pair left over as stock for the shop.




Les

[edbanger]

Blimey Les they all look the same

All the best

Ed

[Les Symonds]

Yep, Ed....and that's as close as I ever get to production turning...which is a fib because the same hotel just ordered 20 bread-roll bowls for their restaurant.
Les