Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

Finial

John Dillbeck

>I think it sets with the piece very well. It is a really pretty piece.

Re: Finial - Ditto

Mark Kauder

>Mike, I like the finial in this case on this one.

Beautiful work ------ Again.

You are really doing some great stuff lately.

Mark

Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

Bill Hale / The Wood Spinner

>Collar

Great piece, I think this has to be " THE ARTIS PICK"

Good turning and be safe

Bill

Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

John Lucas

>I vote for the collar.

Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

John Leonard

>Collar. Nice work either way.

Collar

John Cahall

>Very nice. Finials aren't my thing.

Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

Chuck Ludwigsen

>Collar gets my vote.

Or go with the collar, turn the bottom of the finial to fit INSIDE the collar and have an either/or piece ;-)

Chuck in Memphis, TN.

Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

Lee Weed

>Mike,

The form looks great, my vote is for the collar, but it looks a little tall.

Re: Collar

DaveZ

>The collar works for me. It compliments that beautiful curve goin into the base. Very nice work, BTW!

Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

Doug Trembath

>Personally, I like the collar, but the finial would look much better if it were smaller. I would say reduce the size of it by half, and look at it again. Better yet, turn another and compare the two. On a vessel of this size, it just seems too tall and massive to me. I often find that proportion is much tougher to achieve than shape.

Now, where do you keep getting so much pretty wood?

Doug Trembath

Studio in the Woods

Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

Mike Schwing from Maryland

>Thank you everybody. I knew folks were going to think the finial was too massive, but honestly, while it does in the pics, it does not in 3D. The collar, I agree, it is a bit tall for the piece. That was the third finial I turned, each a bit smaller, because, as Doug says, proportion is the toughie.

Instead of wasting ebony while coming up with the proper proportioned rim treatment, I turned walnut, colored it with a black Sharpie, and sprayed it with lacquer. Not quite as sharp as a ebony but acceptable.

Doug, my bride calls me a "wood whore". I spend a LOT of time looking for special pieces of wood. I told you I'd bring you a bunch of cherry burls when I vist you and I just got a fresh truckload of them yesterday. I have befriended a sawmill with the gift of a cherry burl bowl like the one you were helping me with.

This particular piece of wood I got on ebay. Got lucky, $10 + $10 shipping for enough of this for 3 forms. There was no indication that it had this marble spalting until I started turning it. Won a 18" maple burl cap yesterday for $20. I'll pay for stuff I can't harvest locally.

Collar

Ron in Drums PA

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Re: Help decide - collar or finial (PICs)

Greg W. in NC

>I agree with Lee - I like the collar a bit better, but maybe a little smaller. Beautiful work, by the way!

Collar

Rick Castrios

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Collar or thinner finale

John Trant (aka Boxes-n-Bowls)

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Finial...

Peter Teubel

>Personally, I think collars too common. The finial looks really nice on that piece. Perhaps a bit smaller?

Re: Finial...

Mike Schwing from Maryland

>Thanks Peter, and everyone. Keith T. probably imparted the most important thing to note, on another forum - the finial is too plain for the form. Since I (was) mostly a bowl turner I had no skew experience, and I'm only half good with a detail gouge. Add no small tools to that and you have a guy who really doens't have the ability (yet) to turn a good finial. Keith was as right as rain - the finial should be a little "fancier" to match the form and the burl figure. I knew it, I just couldn't get there.

collar

Pete Lamberty

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