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15th August 2009, 10:34 PM #1
Question about boxes with finials...
Do you make/plan the finial first and then make a box to match.
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Do you make/plan a box, then make a finial to match.
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15th August 2009, 11:19 PM #2Retired
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Eliza, I can't talk for the Weird and Wonderful one, but I'm sure he only makes boxes that include a finial. I may be wrong, but I'd doubt it.
Check out some of his earlier work here:
http://www.theaustralianwoodturninge...iles/frame.htm
As I think I said previously, big "clunky" boxes don't deserve finials. Or, at least, finials aren't suited to such boxes.
So the finer and thinner you go, the more opportunities you have to use finials - not only to "decorate", but highlight your work.
Wait until the wise ones respond. My boxes are still clunky. That's why some b#ggers call me Little Grasshopper.
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16th August 2009, 12:37 AM #3SENIOR MEMBER
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Hi Eliza Sometimes you make the finial first for instance if you were turning a small box out of Huon pine you would look for a contrasting wood something like African Black wood so you do plan the finial first. If I was going turn a box out of red lance wood or some other really hard acacia I would turn the finial as part of the the lid but in general you plan the complete box before you start or have some idea of what the end product is going to look like. Personally most of the boxes I make are designed as the wood is turning.Hope that completely confuses you LOL.
Mick
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16th August 2009, 08:04 AM #4Participent grade 2.54
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I would plan the whole box first, finial and all to get the proportions right and curves playing together.
Keith
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16th August 2009, 12:18 PM #5
Eliza...the body really has to be made first in order to, as KDM spoke to, plan the height and thickness of the finial in relation to the body.
One way to determine a good relationship is to use the Golden Mean to get the correct proportions...chances are that you use the Golden Mean in your pictures and may not even realize it.Cheers,
Ed
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