dr4g0nfly
18th March 2013, 06:37 AM
I started this a long time ago an posted it as a 'part finished' project.
It started as 'Can I hollow a Banksia pod?' The answer was yes. But then what to do with it? A need to fill the hollowing hole lead to a lid and because I like them, it had to have a finial. but to make it 'different' I made it in two parts, separated by a glass bead.
The wife eventually spotted some Flower Arrangers 'Driftwood', that worked but it needed something more. A UK Turner (Mark Sanger) adding disparate items as 'part of the whole' seemed to fit - but what? I tried many items, some I'd turned, some natural, some even industrial, I was never that happy with the effect...
...then last weekend I spotted the Cone shell with markings that reflected the seed holes in the pod - I'd found the thing it wanted, and it worked,
Comments & Critiques as you will please, and thanks for looking.
It started as 'Can I hollow a Banksia pod?' The answer was yes. But then what to do with it? A need to fill the hollowing hole lead to a lid and because I like them, it had to have a finial. but to make it 'different' I made it in two parts, separated by a glass bead.
The wife eventually spotted some Flower Arrangers 'Driftwood', that worked but it needed something more. A UK Turner (Mark Sanger) adding disparate items as 'part of the whole' seemed to fit - but what? I tried many items, some I'd turned, some natural, some even industrial, I was never that happy with the effect...
...then last weekend I spotted the Cone shell with markings that reflected the seed holes in the pod - I'd found the thing it wanted, and it worked,
Comments & Critiques as you will please, and thanks for looking.