Thread: And now for something completely different . . .

I designed and built this strange looking beast for myself as my entry in our club challenge for this years show. I had gotten used to having my Infinity table and lamp beside my chair but the lamp was starting to sag under its own weight so it had to go - can't handle looking at things that aren't square when they should be! We each received a 2m long slab of Lemon scented gum to create a piece of furniture and mine happened to be the smallest with an awful lot of sapwood and a couple of voids. Decided that every component should be curved in at least one plane so I had to have a go at steam bending but didn't want to make a big steamer for just one project so I ended up boiling about 500mm of each end of the slats instead to form the 'neck' which actually worked out OK. The joins that didn't have any physical connection have been pinned with dowels turned from the same timber. To use the last few scraps I challenged myself to make a remote-control holder with no glue - very rewarding experiment with little more of the slab other than sawdust left over! .
The judges thought it was worth 1st prize so I was pretty stoked.
Didn't take many pictures of the making - just the neck-form and the components of the box before assembly.
Hope you like it. Comments and question gratefully accepted!

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