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Title: Gold bowl tea light
Post by: willstewart on August 30, 2019, 04:42:50 PM

Probably a last effort to do something different with an LED tea light!  The gilding is gold substitute - which is trickier to handle than the real thing but the surface texture is part of the charm perhaps.  The tea light is loose upside-down in a gilded-exterior cup held in the centre with three (gilded) short dowel rods.  Of course the cup has a hole in the base through which the LED extends, though it cannot be seen from outside. The wood is walnut (bowl and lid) with a wax finish.  The lid is just a reasonable fit - no retention. On the whole the pictures do not do it justice - the ring is quite bright (and flickers with the LED). I think all gold-interior bowls seem to glow - but this one actually does!

Title: Re: Gold bowl tea light
Post by: bodrighywood on August 30, 2019, 07:07:36 PM

You find the gilding transfer trickier than the actual gold leaf? Surprising as it's not as thin. Like the way you are using it here.

pete

Title: Re: Gold bowl tea light
Post by: willstewart on August 30, 2019, 07:24:13 PM

I think because it is not so thin -  so it does not self-stick in the same way and it can be less easy to manipulate.

Title: Re: Gold bowl tea light
Post by: Bryan Milham on August 30, 2019, 08:19:14 PM

I thought it was a box, but the upside-down tealight is a very ingenious idea.

It gets my vote

Title: Re: Gold bowl tea light
Post by: willstewart on August 31, 2019, 12:29:44 PM

My daughter has named it the 'Ring of Fire' - though it seems perfectly stable...

Title: Re: Gold bowl tea light
Post by: The Bowler Hatted Turner on September 02, 2019, 10:15:14 AM

I like this, a different design from the norm, well done.