Thread: My wootha 2015 piece

I didn't make it to the Maleny woodshow with my entry, ran out of time (note to self start earlier)
Here's a few pics....

front.jpgleft side.jpgright side.jpgdrawers open.jpgCL drawer btm.jpgseed detail 1.jpgseed detail 2.jpgleaf detail.jpg

I was trying to represent the theme "planting the seed" as we might see in nature by making a veneer pattern showing a seed in a pod hanging from a branch on it's way to burst forth and to be "planted".
I'm reasonably happy with my representation but if I did it again I'd most likely experiment with a few different seed pod shapes. I had a vague idea (no idea really) of what I was going to do for a seed pod and as it happened it was quite by accident this one popped up, I was using the chisel to carve some waste off a piece of mulberry veneer and I was making these interesting curled shapes, ahhh now they look interesting that might just be a seed pod.

The tree trunk and branches are Raintree, background is Mulberry (I think it is) as well as the leaves, the red leaves are Peltophorin, the ground and handles are Fleatree, the seed is Macadamia, the interspaces in the pod are Burdekin Plum, drawer btms are Camphour Laurel, the drawer slips , the drawer sides are some unknown sort of pine (was told it was Hoop but I don't think it is) same pine also makes up the ladder and web frames with a veneer of Crows Ash on the sliding surface.

I wanted the draw widths to vary so I used a geometric progression to determine draw widths starting with 100 for the top and 200 for the btm width which I think turned out well.




Pete