Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
I enjoyed a Benoit Averly demo at the AAW.....
JamieDonaldson
....Symposium last week, and haven't made turned boxes in years! His demo of "French Style" boxes included hollowing with a bowl gouge, but I'm much more comfortable with my trusty Hunter#5 tool for this task. I grabbed a chunk of spalted and somewhat punky Hackberry for this prototype, and will use better wood from my stash in similar future projects. Box is 5 1/2" H x 4"W
Wonderful!
Dick Coers
Lining up spalt lines on a lidded box can be a bit of a challenge.
BERRY NICE!
Re: I enjoyed a Benoit Averly demo at the AAW.....
Dennis in Southern Oregon
Very nice Jamie. Is it an oil finish?
Dennis, Deft lacquer well rubbed in.
Re: I enjoyed a Benoit Averly demo at the AAW.....
Craig Daymon
I saw Benoit demo once. He didn't use a bowl gouge to hollow the box, he used his skew chisel. Very cool and VERY fast. Think it was a box similar to the one shown in your picture, with a flat bottom. Shavings just streamed from the box, like when Lyle uses a Hunter to hollow, except bigger shavings.
In Atlanta...
GaryG in MD
I attended one of his box demos in Atlanta. Very impressive.
He does things like Raffan.
His skews are Raffan style -- rectangular cross section with a gently curved edge.
He used the skews for much of the exterior, but he "back hollowed" the interior with a 3/8" spindle gouge -- again, classic Raffan -- and cleaned up the interior corner shape with the skew used as a negative-rake scraper.
He smoothed the curved interior shape gently with a round-nose scraper.
His use of a skew for all kinds of cuts on the exterior (lid, subtly beaded curved finial, etc.) was most enlightening.
nice work, Jamie...
GaryG in MD
It was good to get a chance to catch up with you in ATL. ...GG
Re: I enjoyed a Benoit Averly demo at the AAW.....
John K Jordan
Nice box and beautiful wood! Me and my bottle of CA glue love punky spalted wood.
JKJ
Re: I enjoyed a Benoit Averly demo at the AAW.....
Mike Brazeau
Nice piece Jamie. Have had his work in my inspiration folder for a long time but never seem to get to it. Great spaulting and excellent matching.
