what do you do with non figured woods
john lucas
I don't use very much figured woods because I simply don't have them. In that case what do you do. For example on boxes highly figured or very colorful woods will stand on their own if they have a good shape. However when the wood is very plain something else usually needs to be done. Texturing, fluting, carving, burning, or some other form of embellishment is usually required to make it stand out from the crowd.
there are purely functional pieces like a spoon, bowl or rolling pin in which plain woods are acceptable and maybe desirable.
I got into segmented work early on because all I had access to were plain woods and usually not over 3/4" thick. Adding contrasting colored woods sort of gave me the look of exotic woods or burls.
So show me what you make from plain wood.
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