Winged Bowl in Olive (Feedback welcomed)

Re: Winged Bowl in Olive (Feedback welcomed)

GeeSeaWhy

>I like that. The radiused corners work very well, I think.

Graeme

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Bill Grumbine, Kutztown PA

>Very interesting David. If I may wax artistic, I see a tension between the upward sweep of the bowl and the downward sweep of the wings. All in all not a bad effect. I wasn't sure I liked it at first, but the more I looked at it, the more I liked it. Very nice.

Bill

PS Last summer Ellis gave me an 8/4 board of olive with some waney edges. I have been trying to get to it for some time now. I can only imagine what the wood must look like. It is all brown and dirty on the outside, but I know there is good stuff waiting on the inside.

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Keith Tompkins

>SHI David, NIce piece. I think in a piece such as this, the form of the vessel must appear to flow right through the square section, almost uninterrupted. Your piece seems to accomplish this quite nicely. Have you considered using the wings as feet? nice piece, as usual.

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RonZ

>David, I have to tell you that you really broke a barrier on this one. You have people thinking twice.

As I mentioned in Keith's post above you have given the bowl a nice wing-like, fly away type form helped along by your accident ot the rounded edges.

I really like this one.

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Arch

>Hi David, In the eye of each beholder, etc. etc.

My eye woud prefer less droopy wings to complement the 'bowl's' somewhat straight sides or conversely, perhaps a bit more curve to the 'bowl' part. I can visualize removing the bowl from its square container.which produces a slightly jolted sense of joined but separate pieces. I like the way the wings display the georgeous wood, perhaps better than the bowl alone would. _Why did you add them instead of making a larger bowl, other than you know _how?

One sure gets a lot of misinformation, such as mine, over the internet. Best, Arch

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Mike Schwing from Md.

>David, I think its BEAUTIFUL and I can't remember the last time I used that word to describe a turning. The sheen on it is out of this world, superb finish. Thats three things now you've inspired me to work on.

Re: Winged Bowl in Olive (Feedback welcomed)

John Lucas

>David

Excellent. At first look I thought the "wings" should be a little higher but on second look I like the way they seem to be in the torso of the piece. If it were flying this would more or less balance the piece. Kind of like a big fat bumble bee.

Thanks Graeme

David Eaves

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David Eaves

>Thanks Bill, interesting description of the flow, I hadn't looked at it like that.

I think you will be in for a treat will the olive boards, this piece looked quite unassuming until the shavings started flying :o)

David

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David Eaves

>Thanks Keith, I really saw what you were saying as I turned it, when they were both different diamaters it looked silly. As for the line following up the vessel it worked quite well. If you turn it upside down you can see that it does go in a bit too much right at the top. You don't see this from the normal viewing angles though. That is a quality point to watch on the next one.

With regard to the feet, I was thinking about your marvellous spinning top holders type of feet. However, I decided to go for somthing a bit simpler on this. I wasn't sure if I had the confidence/skill level yet to pull the feet off well. I decided with this form even if it went badly I could salvage a round rim out of it, wheras with feet I might have messed the whole piece of wood up. I'm inspired by your footed turnings so I think you'll see some like that in a bit :o)

Thanks again

David

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David Eaves

>Thanks Ron,

Glad you like it, and interesting observation, the shape I guess is inspired from seeing many different square turnings. I realise it is different to all the ones I have seen now. I really like Stuart Batty's work so that is were some of the ideas came from. Although I had named them wings I hadn't fully appreciated the flying bit :o)

Cheers

David

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David Eaves

>Thanks for your input Arch, your observations on the droop are valuable. To be honest although the general shape was planned the actual embodient was a bit random as I'm still learning the square turning job. I will experiment with more shallow ones in future.

I decided to use a square turning as like I said above I really like the work of Stuart Batty and others. Also I wanted to be able to show off the wood grain on what was closer to a quarter sawn face which is harder to do with a straight bowl.

Thanks again

David

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David Eaves

>Thankyou Mike, glad you like it. We all inspire each other. Yours and other peoples work here really gives me things to aim for too.

Sorry for casuing you more work, flowers square bowls.. never ending list. :o)

David

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David Eaves

>Thanks John, interesting observations on the height of the wings. I like the bumble bee description too :o)

Cheers

David