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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: jimbo on June 15, 2010, 03:19:31 am
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Different, this a pic of a piece of woodturning I did 3 years ago, I learned how it was done at demonstration day, it is a hollow form vessel made from maple and the lid is of jarrah, it is square and has 4 wings, note 3 wings are up and the 4th is turned down, any ideas how was turned,
Jimbo
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Looks absolutely super Jimbo! Never turned anything in my life, so as to how it was done, no idea ???.
David
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Unique is the best discription. I'm not a turner but would love to know how it was done. Great job!
Happy Scrolling
Bill
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Very nice to see something that is not totally rounded out. I cannot wait till someone teaches me to turn.
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Come to NZ for a holiday I have all the gear
Jimbo
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Cherie...he even has a new saw he will let you play with!!!
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Lathe first
Jimbo
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Ed...I did play with an Excalibur. Nice smooth saw.
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If you turned it over it could be a top with three wings down, one wing up.
LOL. ::) ::) ::)
Nice work, looks really good.
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Hey Jimbo are you sure it didn't grow that way LOL, I have some wood that looks cupped and bowed, but not as nice looking as that piece you have. So when are you going to tell us how you did it?
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Why dosn't some one guess, I told one person when he asked how it was done, said I oiled the wings untill they were soft and bent them with a pair of pliars!! what do you think?
Jimbo
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Steamed?
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Soaked it in water! I have used that technique to bend wood hand rails for stair ways. ??? ??? ???
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OK Jimbo I'll take a guess, I never used a lathe before, so not sure of any tricks on them.All I know is you put wood on one end and it turns and use a tool to shape it. So my guess is, is it possible to make one side then take it off and put the opposite side on and spin it again. Probably a dumb guess, but I tried.
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Don't fore get 3 fins are up and 1 fin is down, and no it is not soaked in water or any other substance.
Keep guessing
Jimbo
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Carved it ?
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I think you turned it with all four fins up and when you were done you cut one fin off on a band saw and re-glued it in the down position. A little sanding and filling and Bobs your uncle.
Rog
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OK, a couple of you were close, carving is part of it,BUT, first it has to be turned, start by turning base, 4 wings down, turn over and turn 4 wings up, choose 3 best wings and remove 4th [carve with mini carver] turn over remove 3 of the down wings, that leaves 3up and one down, make sense?, from there on it is sanding, maily by hand, this project took me 5 hours to complete, I put it up for sale at $120 with no takers, the demonstrator that showed how it was done sells his for $500 upwards, same size.
Jimbo
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Jimbo,
It all depends on you market. Are you showing to people with an intrest in art and have the money for it or are you showing to people looking for a candy dish?
It is very fustrating fo all of us to be creative and do good work and not find anyone else who even cares beyound saying "Nice work".
I live in an area with few people (compaired to a big city) and altho some around here have money there doesn't seem to be any intrest in local artists.
I go to a church with the richer end of the population and often donate scroll work to the youth group to sell for their projects and they don't have much luck getting $5.00 for a beautiful cross that I have cut. People will however pay $50.00 for a glass cross imported from South America. Go figure?
Rog
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Know where you are coming from Rog, I first showed it our clubs sales and exabition, had more people ask how it was made than were interested in buying, the next time was at Pataka museum of art, when I was there demonstrating there was some much interest I thought it would sell but I still have it, The problem I do not have the name for doing that stuff, I have sold a hollow form for $250 but that was a bit of luck, I have a exact copy of it if you would like to look at it, that piece is now in the USA it was for a wedding gift.
Jimbo
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Jimbo, I think it is a very unique piece of work, and very well done, and thanks for sharing the secret to its creation. Roger is right, if you could find the right person, they probably wouldn't hesitate to pay you top dollar. I live in a small rural area where dollars are tight. I also see things similar I make for sale online and they get 2 to 3 times what I can sell it for. Finding the market for something is the hard part.