On Sunday night, early hours, my shoulder went out again. It happens every now and then. I've now been told it could be a torn rotator cuff and it's being treated but may need a shot in the joint or an op. A week or two will tell. And I think hollowforms are to blame. Too much stress on the right shoulder over a long period.
Anyway...on saturday I'd been cutting wood for the fire (another likely candidate for a cause) and there was a small piece of Elm that was worth turning, and a discus hollowform seemed like a good idea. The hollowing was completed on saturday, and monday I was off with the shoulder, but I had to go back in today and decided to take it easy and finish it. It needed a finial of some sort and I thought and thought about it...and then I had an idea...
I had a large slice of seriously burred Yew that could be cut into small blocks for finials, but the problem was there were a large number of voids in it. How would I get around the voids? The answer came in the turning..don't get around the voids, work with them and make a hollow burr yew finial.
Had this been a solid lump of wood I'd have made the finial smaller, but had I turned this any smaller it would have been in a hundred pieces...
So...does it work with the larger finial?
I need to take a close up shot of the interior of the finial because the inclusion is lovely inside.
thoughts?
EDIT: sorry Martin, I should have put the size in the post...
7" diameter at the widest point, and 7" tall including the finial
