Tonnau - Waves

[Les Symonds]

My latest piece made for submission to a local gallery, in the hope that I get a few items on display for a month in an exhibition to celebrate local artists....fingers crossed!

It's a very dry piece of Welsh Oak Burr with lots of scorching and a little bit of leather to form a flexible mount for the single cabochon of Coppywin Jasper. Overall height is 30" (77cm), with the near-circle of exposed grain being 12" (30cm) diameter. It is photographed standing in my little photo-booth, which was only just big enough, but has two hangers on the back and it can hang from either one of them, such that it hangs either as photographed, or diagonally.....I just liked it that way.

The finished are lime wax on all the scorched areas and a lightly buffed microcrystaline wax for a satin finish on the exposed grain.
C&C always welcome....Les

p.s. .... the name "Tonnau" is Welsh for "Waves", and is pronounced .....T-ON-EYE...
p.p.s .... I still have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs

[bodrighywood]

Love the use of different materials Les, all works well together.

Pete

[Dave Atkinson]

Lovely piece of work Les.

Glad to hear you still have all your digits!

Cheers Dave

[Duncan A]

Very nice indeed.
What's Welsh for propeller? It looks like one to me; more air than wood!
Duncan

[bodrighywood]

Very nice indeed.
What's Welsh for propeller? It looks like one to me; more air than wood!
Duncan

Les will correct me if I am wrong but I think it is propelor. A lot of modern words are just adaptations from the original english.

Pete

[Les Symonds]

Pete, Dave & Duncan....thanks for the kind comments, much appreciated.

Pete....like you, I would have used "propelor" as there isn't a true Welsh word listed in the official dictionaries.
Les

[georg]

      Bet that made a nice fan on a hot day Les ...... Hope it does well in the gallery.
      Kind Regards Tony di

[edbanger]

Love this sort of work Les and this piece is up there with the best.

All the best

Ed

[Bryan Milham]

Les,

never mind the 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, how have you still got a workshop ceiling. I'm having trouble wondering why this stayed together while being turned.

It is beautiful but you are a braver man than I.

Love it.

[bodrighywood]

I started a piece that was like this a while ago only to find that all that was holding it togther was some bark that decided to go for a divorce. Fortunately only at about 300rpm but a warning that any wood like this can have a mind of its own so take care.

Pete

[Les Symonds]

...I'm having trouble wondering why this stayed together while being turned....

Bryan....every sensible precaution was taken. It started off as a little over 2" thick, with 8 screws through a wooden disk, into what is now the front of the piece, then a faceplate fixed onto that.
That allowed me to gently skim the back so that I could get a close look, and as luck would have it, there were no deep or extensive cracks in it. The rpm rarely got above 250, so it was a slow process and I had a series of lights positioned behind it to help to make the 'wings' more visible. Even at that low revs, the tips run at about 25mph, so they're barely visible!
Anyway, I'm glad that you like it...Les