Liliac Process

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Liliac Process

Liliac Process

This is what I’ve done with this unusually large (about one foot in diameter) VERY old liliac composite trunk. The top row shows it intact then sliced horizontally into about a dozen pieces of the larger lower part. Left middle row shows the surfaces of the slices in sequence, showing their wonderful purple grain and internal cavities, some of decay but most natural as these several trunks grew together. I have yet to figure how to turn these surfaces, and assemble such sections into “sculptures” of some sort (any suggestions? :-)) Middle right and lower image shows two different sides of trials with the bottom slice, finished with oil and lacquer under different lighting. This single piece has sold already :-). Comments, reactions, suggestions always welcome as this process proceeds. 

much later but still here!!

“Siblings”

 Successive natural-edged cross-sections of an old dry knarled branch of osage orange. This wood is so delightful to work with – hard, fine-grained, shows little sanding marks. Pieces are simply attached with unglued wooden pegs, allowing rearrangements if desired. This sculpture is about three feet high. Two pieces VERY  lightly dyed. All pieces are finished with 1/1/1 solvent/oil/poly, which I understand, after all the complications, convolutions, secrets and complexities of described finishes, is in the end “danish oil”.

A new recent classical piece

here's a recent piece, one of my favorites

beginnings

This is my first posting - let see how it goes.




Bowl by Bill Neddow - Ladle by Mike Schwing
These are items I traded for my femispheres.

This is a femisphere

This is a political statement - caused quite a reaction among the woodturning community - not all of it pleasing!