Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Critique Request
John F
>Help, I really need help. The only comments I seem to elicit from LOML is they are all wonderful. I really want your comments, I figure your the only ones who are likely to be honest with me.
No finish yet, still on my chuck so if needed I can still make some changes.
approx. 9.5" wide, 4" tall and about 3/8' thick at the lip, a little thicker at the bottom.
Please excuse my lousy photography skills.
First a top view.
thanks
John F
front view
John F
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Re: Critique Request *LINK*
Russ Fairfield
>It would seem that you have already passed the 1st test for a salad bowl.
SHAPE
This is a subjective thing, �that vision thing�, that will be different for different women. Yes, women. Women buy and use salad bowls and they KNOW what a salad bowl should look like. Men make salad bowls, and they have no idea what a salad bowl should look like. If in doubt, ask your wife, or the neighbor�s wife if you don�t have one.
Read the rest of what I think are the requirements for a salad bowl in the linked article.
The Seven S's of the salad bowl
Re: front view *LINK*
Mike Schwing from Md.
>John, you have a fine bowl there, and as Russ, said, the important test has been passed by the Mrs. If it can be held with one hand, holds salad, looks nice, and cleans up easily you have a winner.
Now, if you're asking for artsy kinds of critiques, well, there are as many opinions as a... well, you get the idea.
If this were a bowl I had turned I would have made the bowl more shallow/less tall and had a more pronounced curve toward towards the center, which I would have brought in to just under 1/3 of the rim diameter. I would also prefer to see the curve continue rather than almost flatten out. I think that many of us try to use up all of the wood in a blank and end up with a form that would be better if we'd sacrificed a bit in the name of form. At 9.5 x 4" tall it is just about half as tall as it is wide, which in my eye's opinion is too tall for that width.
The photography makes it really difficult to judge the bottom part of the profile and the foot, but I can tell you that I prefer salad bowls without noticeable feet. Just my preference. When you reverse turn it, consider what it would look like if you removed most of that foot.
As it sits there is not much more you can do with the bowl since it is already pretty thin, and its a fine bowl as it is. If you want to get "artsy" about it some of my comments may make sense, otherwise - everyone has one..you know...
Hope this makes sense, and wasn't too harsh. The bowl is fine. All of our work can be critiqued to improve, and if we can all be as gracious as Keith was with his creation last week we'll all get better each time we submit our work for analysis.
SchwingWoodWorks
