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5th July 2013, 10:05 PM #16Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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6th July 2013, 08:33 AM #17
That's a good work in progress.
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6th July 2013, 10:00 AM #18
Yep, I was sending the client a lot of shots to keep him informed so had a good line of progress.
Some things I didn't mention before....
The steel was polished and finished with White Knight clear rust coat, the timber was finished with hoe brew danish. The small feet were made slightly darker with a couple of coats of Bi Carb and water just to give a slight tonal difference.
And naturally the rasps are all Liogier, would love some more with different profiles.
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6th July 2013, 10:59 AM #19
I see you have kept it Newy style CH using Hoe's
Like that WiP piece very interesting the three fonds I might get you to make 3 more look ideal bowl coring tools just need a nice HSS tip
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6th July 2013, 12:12 PM #20SENIOR MEMBER
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They are all beautiful and thought provoking, but I have to admit a special fondness for your '1959' piece. Love the way you have left some of the tool marks and natural wood after the sanding/polishing. I don't know if the transition between raw wood and highly shaped and polished is supposed to represent anything, but I like it.
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6th July 2013, 12:31 PM #21
Hi Guys
Ray no worries mate, what shape tool would you like
Whittling, being a bit of a darksider I like to keep a few tool marks here and there to show it wasn't just squeezed out of a mold like so much of the other things around us these days. I love it when people touch my work so I like to have a variety of textural finishes, the smooth and sexy through to a possible splinter. Even on my furniture I used to warn the clients that they would find a chisel or plane mark here and there. Makes it real.
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6th July 2013, 01:24 PM #22GOLD MEMBER
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Yes, it's real. At the same time, you have scraped off all the rubbish of details which might limit the viewer's imagination. I like being left to my own mind's eye.
Thank you.
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6th July 2013, 06:27 PM #23
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8th July 2013, 09:27 AM #24
Great work Mark. Anything with copper involved is always going to get my attention!
I hear that your next sculpture revolves around saw teeth, with much use of files. Any truth in the rumour?
Cheers
Brett
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8th July 2013, 10:30 AM #25
I think everything we do is sculptural so YES.
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13th July 2013, 01:25 AM #26
Next, this one is still well and truely under construction. A 2.8m high Huon mermaid. She is on a mission returning ghost nets to us dreadful humans who are polluting her oceans. Her tail fin and some of her body will be clad in copper strips and scales and she will be casting back a large net made of steel and full of roper, net, plastic etc. She will not be a happy pretty mermaid, more likely a mermaid with attitude I'll update this one as I do more to her. She has been on the back burner for a while.
Mark Aylward - Return to Sender 1- Huon Pine Copper Steel 2.5m high.jpgMark Aylward - Return to Sender 4 - Huon Pine Copper Steel 2.5m high.jpg
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13th July 2013, 08:41 AM #27
You could try carving on her face. Have you been using the "pull" rasp on her? (and there's an ENORMOUS hint there ).
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13th July 2013, 12:16 PM #28
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13th July 2013, 04:05 PM #29
I'd go with wailing Ray I think she would be firmly against Whaling
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31st July 2013, 09:23 AM #30
Sculpture Society at Darling Park, Sydney
We went to the Sculpture Society's Exhibition at Darling Park last night. Claw's entry, 'Archaeology of Life' (known as 'spinal tap' to the straight line woodworkers amongst us!) didn't receive a gong and, until the last prize was awarded to another male, it was looking like Claw would have to undergo a sex change and age rapidly to get a prize!
spinaltap01.jpgspinaltap02.jpg
HOWEVER, all is not lost! There is a popular choice award and it behoves upon ALL Sydney CDB woodies to get to Darling Park (corner of Sussex and Market) to cast their vote!
All joking aside, there is some fabulous work in the exhibition from extreme realism to positively incomprehensible! The little old lady on the park bench and the circus clown got me in ... but not my vote!
keep up the good work Claw....
fletty
PS, apologies for the mobile phone pics BUT I was heading out for a big night and not carrying any excess weight!a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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