This was one of those jobs where you have a rough idea what you want before you start, but ultimately have to go with what the wood dictates. It came about when a return-customer asked me to make an 80th birthday gift to be sent to a director of a logging company in Sweden. The customer wanted a lump of oak burr and liked the wall-hangings and sculptures that i make, but he wanted his to incorporate a bowl. Just to make things more awkward, he also wanted an inscription and a makers mark pyrographed under the bowl, which is just about impossible on weathered oak burr like this.
The solution was a winged bowl with the bowl offset to one end and a hefty scorched oak foot set into the underside of the bowl. Furthermore, the oak foot is recessed, so that a piece of beech could be set into it to take the inscription. Finally, a single leg was needed to keep the bowl balanced, with the wing, the foot and the leg all scorched. The whole piece was then lime-waxed to give an appearance of age.
The overall dimensions are 25"x10"x4" (62cm x 25cm x 10cm), whilst the centre of the bowl is 19" (47cm) from the tip of the wing, which gave a 38" swing when I was working it.
C&C Always welcome...Les
