AWGB Woodturning Forum
General Category => Gallery => Topic started by: Eric Harvey on October 31, 2016, 12:04:50 PM
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I was given a couple of big hunks of Sycamore trunk 2 weeks ago,after splitting each piece into 3 I have 4 vase/hollow form blanks and 2 large bowl blanks,I made a natural edge bowl out of one,which is still waiting to be finished as it still quite wet,the other one I used the bigger edge to get a bigger bowl,but not as deep as it was a thinner blank,I made a large ring foot as its to be used as a fruit bowl and needs to be stable,which was going to be cut and carved into 3 feet,all going well so far,got the feet cut and thought,lets see how it looks standing on a flat surface,which showed up my mistake,the bottom of the bowl was deeper that the feet,so had to cut them off and turn/carve 3 new feet,I used Iroko for the new feet as it is a nicely contrasting timber and made sure they were long enough to clear the bottom of the bowl this time haha,cheers, Eric.
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An excellent design opportunity
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I'm really pleased that you took the trouble to carve the crank into the feet; it would have been so easy to just turn them. The feet add interest and there's a good contrast....works well for me.
Les
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Eric,
I've looked at this several times, I love the absolute blandness of the sycamore, it's pale to the point of almost appearing translucent.
I also had to look several times to realise that the feet had a dramatic grain, and you had not textured them.
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Loving that Eric the feet set the bowl off well
Ed
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The feet certainly make the piece look a lot finer and lighter Eric ..... ... Making a simple bowl completely
different .
Regards Tony di