Thread: To foot or not?

Well I'll see yours & raise you... a foot.

Don't worry Cliff drew's probably been sniffing the sanding sealer again and got a HEADACHE ! as for feet why are you looking at bottoms ,sooo your a bottom man eh

C'mon man..... I have only just got the hang of the whole chucking operation via a nicely disguised foot, and now you want to get rid of the foot?

Actually, I wouldn't be adverse to trying a little carving on the finished foot ring to break it up into a series of bumps/warts or even properly formed "feet". Sounds quite interesting. Anybody got any pics of something like this?

Well, it is not exactly what you want but this traditional design of the Aosta valley (on the border between Italy and France) might give you some ideas. It is called a "grolla" and is a cross between a goblet and a jar used for both purposes. The original "bowl on stilts"!

The dark one (dyed chestnut, 210h) is a locally produced one, the other (peach, 250h) is one of a couple of dozen items left unfinished that I experimented with in the past 30 years and now I finally hope to finish.

Hi guys,

Thanks for the thoughts, of course you are right Skew some sort of flat bit is needed to stop the piece rolling off the table, it was more the manufacturing convention of the form I was quizzing. We had a demonstrator from King Island here this year who was putting a rounded bottom on her eccentric bowls. This made them more art pieces than functional, but its a thought.

Love the grolla, gotta look into them.

Sebastiaan