Thread: Critique pictures. Read 1st post

hi

Made this today from a blank I bought - White Pear - a wood I've never heard of before, but it's interesting. Cuts nicely and is strong - important when you're trying to keep the corners on a square one. It's 26cm square and about 3mm at the edges.

Comments welcome

Pete

Looks good from this angle, those cracks would have been a bit of a worry.

What does the base & foot look like?

I love square turned things. Working on some at the moment but I've glued waste bits around them this time. Yours looks great. Uuuum. Photo booth looks a bit naff though.

hello all, heres a recent piece i made from spalted beech, i turned the hollow form first then set it aside to dry for a few weeks then carved the outside using a mixture of hand and power tool methods. its inspired by john jordans work.
this was my first ever attempt at carving on one of my turnings.
as a newbie here i would like to post more pics of my woodturning work is it always best to post them here on this thread? or in genral woodturning?
right here i go i hope this works o.k

cool

Interesting.

Very interesting.

But since this is a "critique thread, her are my thoughts about what could be better; the wood is very "showy" and perhaps would have been better shown of on a plainer form. Here the spalting fights withe the carving for attention. Maybe a more uniform grained wood would allow the form and carving to take center stage. So hop to it and do another one.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Looks good from this angle, those cracks would have been a bit of a worry.

What does the base & foot look like?

Hi - Yes, the cracks were a worry, but they stayed very stable and look great.

I try to keep the foot as shallow as possible, but leave the chucking recess, as I find it hard to rechuck a square bowl to take away the foot - must work out a way to do it though.

(Th photo booth is my kitchen, btw, not what it looks like)

Pete

Looks good but those cracks would still have been a worry.

I do like square things. Would love to see a pic of it sitting on a table.

Originally Posted by tea lady

I do like square things. Would love to see a pic of it sitting on a table.

I hope he has a square table.

Continuing with the theme of square things, some silky oak this time - customer didn't want the white pear bowl because of the cracks (I call them features) so hopefully she'll like this one.

Pete

I love it. Nice calm form. Just the right amount of showy grain. Photo an a table. (mostly)

I just had a careful look at the rim. It looks very consistent all the way across. Well done