jhunt_2000
16th December 2003, 01:22 AM
Here's a lidded bowl I've been working on for a little while. The lid is Banksia Wood, not the nut, and the bowl is some sort of Eucalypt I picked up off a tree lopper. For the base I put a Y section of branch between centres, with the axis running through the meeting point of the 3 bits in the Y, or straight out of the screen you are now looking at. Then I rounded the outside of the bowl so on the sides there are three branch ends running out of the sides. That also left me with two bark inclusions which the bark later fell off leaving the rough patches. The wood is soooooo beautiful. Originally I finished it with a pre-catalysed lacquer but hated the golden honey wash it gave to the wood so I sanded it back and hit it with Shellawax Cream which I finally managed to get. I like it.
The lid is a side branch I lopped off the side of a larger Banksia blank I was preparing for Ron. I almost binned the side branch automatically before I stopped and thought about it as a lid. Glad I didn't toss it cause I think it works great. Banksia is the weirdest wood to work though; one part is almost sponge, which I expected, but the centre is one of the hardest woods I've seen. Gave me a heck of a suprise when I realised that. Okay, enough background, what do you all think???
http://www.ubeaut.biz/sugar bowl 1.jpg http://www.ubeaut.biz/sugar bowl 2.jpg
The lid is a side branch I lopped off the side of a larger Banksia blank I was preparing for Ron. I almost binned the side branch automatically before I stopped and thought about it as a lid. Glad I didn't toss it cause I think it works great. Banksia is the weirdest wood to work though; one part is almost sponge, which I expected, but the centre is one of the hardest woods I've seen. Gave me a heck of a suprise when I realised that. Okay, enough background, what do you all think???
http://www.ubeaut.biz/sugar bowl 1.jpg http://www.ubeaut.biz/sugar bowl 2.jpg