Box Elder form - take 2

Re: Box Elder form - take 2

GeeSeaWhy

>And the profile. The collar is rosewood, the whole piece is about 7" diameter.

Bleached?

TDaniel

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Re: Box Elder form - take 2

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>Graem,

Like the form's flow to the collar treatment, but have the feeling that the upper edge of the B-E needs to be softened a bit. I can read the treatment as the rosewood actually continuing under the rim and "producing" the raised rim in the B-E, but the hard edge makes it look more like a snap-lid box than a collar or an interior form.

The very nicely done body is in a bit of a struggle with the foot. With the balance of visual weight well above the midpoint and the established curves, the piece wants to fly, but the large foot is draging it down. Any chance you could put it back in the vacuum chuck and reduce the foot diameter?

Nice piece.

Mark

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No, just the lighting

GeeSeaWhy

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Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>Graem,

Tried to send you an e-mail; got bounced by spamBlocker.

[Rejection's a Bummer]

Mark

Re: Box Elder form - take 2

GeeSeaWhy

>Hi Mark,

Thanks for the comments (e-mail did get through). The collar does sort of look like it's caught under the box elder. After microwave drying the box elder my main concern was to get the collar recess round without making it too big (I had already turned the collar) or messing up the detail. I rather like it as it is but a more seamless transition between the neck and the collar would be better, which probably means gluing the two pieces together before final shaping.

I agree with you about the foot. The original plan was to turn the foot away entirely and just leave a smaller base, as Dinyar suggested on the original piece. I chickened out after the piece went oval - I didn't want to risk a big transition from oval to round that would be hard to blend in. Maybe I'll leave the piece sitting around until it bothers me enough to go back and do it right.

Graeme

Re: Box Elder rim

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In Jersey

>Graeme,

Don't think you need to match/blend the 2 surfaces at the joining, just maybe soften what appears in the pix to be a hard edge on the light wood. The neck-inside/under-the-body effect is, I think, really neat, and you'd lose that if you blended the joint into a single continuous surface.

BTW, what finish did you use to keep the color of the Box Elder so pale?

Mark

Re: Box Elder rim

GeeSeaWhy

>The finish is two or three coats of Formby's Tung Oil Finish, which is what I use on most pieces, buffed with the Beall system. Those photos do look particularly "cold" even though the light source is late afternoon sun. Other photos I've taken look a lot warmer, even with the same camera settings.

Graeme