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General Category => Gallery => Topic started by: fuzzyturns on December 26, 2017, 01:17:11 PM
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A sycamore crotch, turned, hollowed, carved, sanded and dyed in numerous shades of red, orange and yellow, on a stand of American black walnut. Finished with Acrylic lacquer. The disc is about 9" diameter.
This was originally meant to be a blank for a bowl. However, on closer inspection I found that the crotch figure was only really present on the inside, and therefore it would have had to be a natural edge bowl, but the growth of the branches coming out of the crotch was so odd that it would have looked funny. So I decided to turn it into a shallow hollow form. The crotch figure produced some cracks which I decided to carve away, and ended up with this "singing mouth" almost by accident (it certainly was not any deliberate design). As usual, all C&C welcome.
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Love it.
Pete
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Well that's something different, and very nicely displayed. I'm with Pete, love it!
Les
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Make that times three Love it
Ed
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Very nice, but I would've called it kiss - lol
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The crotch figure produced some cracks which I decided to carve away, and ended up with this "singing mouth" almost by accident (it certainly was not any deliberate design).
Never argue with serendipity, chalk up another for liking this one.
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Thank you all for the lovely comments! As luck will have it, this piece was chosen as the turning of the week (http://woodturnersunlimited.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=257&Itemid=147) over on Woodturners Unlimited.