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Thread: Giant omelette
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25th March 2008, 07:30 PM #1
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25th March 2008, 08:08 PM #2
Absolutely awe inspiring
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26th March 2008, 01:42 PM #3
Dynamite!
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26th March 2008, 06:12 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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Vry nice job we are only limited by our imaginations when it comes to woodturning.
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26th March 2008, 07:22 PM #5
Italians have a eye for making beautiful things, this is absolutely stunning.
Great work.
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26th March 2008, 10:13 PM #6
That's a magnificent and graceful level of precision. Thanks for posting, Claude.
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Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain
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26th March 2008, 10:20 PM #7
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30th March 2008, 06:19 PM #8
Been gone a while so apologies for the late post. (Bet nobody missed me, either! )
The walnut trim... is that just a very dark walnut or has it been ebonised? (Or maybe my monitor colours are out of whack?)
Very nice, La Truc. I've a Koori (Aussie aboriginal) mate here who carves Emu eggs. They have different coloured layers in the shell, so careful engraving can produce coloured pictures. I think I'll see about scrounging one off him to see if I can emulate Emilio...
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30th March 2008, 06:26 PM #9
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30th March 2008, 06:31 PM #10
As I am way quite a lot too I cannot come on the forum as often as I would like. This walnut is not ebonised. That is it's natural colour, probably a piece taken close to the centrer of the log. I must say such a dark walnut is quite often found in old walnut trees grown for the culture of the nut and not from those trees, planted close to each other exclusively for the wood industry. The latest present a clear pale tone, very little veneered... The same problem exist with cherry trees here in Europe.
I have never seen an emu egg. It should be fantastic to carve them because of these different colors by layers. I am looking forward to seeing your "egg opera"http://www.la-truciolara.com/
La Truciolara is the workshop where I do my shavings.
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31st March 2008, 02:14 PM #11GOLD MEMBER
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Yes, missed it the first time also... nice precision work.
Spot on with the walnut colour too, it gets darker with age and the more the tree is watered the paler the wood is. And maybe they used the trick that was common in the old days for darkening it: steep it in stable sewage...
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31st March 2008, 08:47 PM #12Been gone a while so apologies for the late post. (Bet nobody missed me, either!
Claude,
Very elegant piece, I had forgotten how thick these shells can get.
Some thing else for Andy aka Caveman to have a go at.....too dear here in OzInspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
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31st March 2008, 09:22 PM #13
Beautiful piece, certainly shows what can happen with a bit of lateral thinking.
Was given an ostrich egg by a local bloke that got hooked in the ostrich farming scam. It has been in the cupboard now for about 12 years. Should be about ready for cooking?????
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