Thread: My practice lidded box.

Originally Posted by ElizaLeahy

You know, if you turned the beads off the finial I think it would be nice. I like it, but they unbalance it.

I did 'em as an exercise. Will work on their placement and proportion on the next ones. Can't change this one now. It is what it is. Maybe I'll turn lots of finlials to try.

Thanks tea lady. Next time you are doing some how bout a few WIP pics please??
I kinda agree with Eliza re the saucer shaped beads but then as u say they are practice.

Hey, anne-maria,
that is a very cool lidded bowl.

Originally Posted by tea lady

I did 'em as an exercise. Will work on their placement and proportion on the next ones. Can't change this one now. It is what it is. Maybe I'll turn lots of finlials to try.

I have to agree, the disks on the finial are too large. Seeing this is a practice piece, put the lid back in the lathe and remove them. Red Gum isn't any good for detail work.

Originally Posted by KenW

I have to agree, the disks on the finial are too large. Seeing this is a practice piece, put the lid back in the lathe and remove them. Red Gum isn't any good for detail work.

Ken, I don't quite agree with you about the redgum. The old-growth stuff from the base of the tree seems to hold some detail OK. Maybe it's your poor chisel control that is complicating the problem????

Originally Posted by KenW

I have to agree, the disks on the finial are too large. Seeing this is a practice piece, put the lid back in the lathe and remove them. Red Gum isn't any good for detail work.

Only the box bit is red gum. The finials are some kind of quite hard, fine grained eucalypt.

I like the unbalancedness. "just wait till I grow into my beads." I think what is acyually makin git look unbalanced is the narrow foot. Anyway, This one is what it is. Stuffed up the thickness on the lid too. Next one will be better.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Next one will be better.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Only the box bit is red gum. The finials are some kind of quite hard, fine grained eucalypt.

I like the unbalancedness. "just wait till I grow into my beads." I think what is acyually makin git look unbalanced is the narrow foot. Anyway, This one is what it is. Stuffed up the thickness on the lid too. Next one will be better.

This is exactly what I mean. Tea Lady has a great eye, her pottery is amazing and shows us that. We disagree about this bead - but it's not a matter of rigth or wrong, but rather what one person likes and another doesn't.

You stick to your guns TL!!!!

Originally Posted by tea lady

Only the box bit is red gum. The finials are some kind of quite hard, fine grained eucalypt.

I like the unbalancedness. "just wait till I grow into my beads." I think what is acyually makin git look unbalanced is the narrow foot. Anyway, This one is what it is. Stuffed up the thickness on the lid too. Next one will be better.

If you like the box, thats all that matters. I am only giving my opinion, for what it's worth. Kitchen Quality Control just had a look at your box, her opinion, remove disks on finial and base.
We all see things differently, the way it should be.

Originally Posted by KenW

If you like the box, thats all that matters. I am only giving my opinion, for what it's worth. Kitchen Quality Control just had a look at your box, her opinion, remove disks on finial and base.
We all see things differently, the way it should be.

You are proly right about the disks. But as I say, this one is what it is. Its also just gonna sit on the shed window sill.

Sometimes with my pottery , if something is not working I'l drop the thing I'm maybe too attached to in the design. I think I saw a box somewhere with those disks in the stem. Hey its my first one. Onwards and upwards. Maybe the stem and finial need to be longer so there is room for the twiddly bits. And I'll make the box form relate more to the twiddly bits. And try one without twiddly bits.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Onwards and upwards. Maybe the stem and finial need to be longer so there is room for the twiddly bits. And I'll make the box form relate more to the twiddly bits. And try one without twiddly bits.

I'll often put a disk on the stem on my little boxes, but I keep the stem itself fairly plain. Otherwise it can become "cluttered" in such a short space. But I prefer short stems on lidded boxes; any time I turn a long stem, it always seems to want to become another goblet.

For the finial, I try to make it a tapered spire (sort of) so that the foot of the bowl, the rim of the disk on the stem and the finial form the lines of a cone piercing the bowl. If you know what I mean?

I don't think I have any successful ones here I can show you... they're the ones that find new homes as soon as they come off the lathe.

On the other hand, I've shelves full of failures that are good examples of when I haven't managed to get the right lines... )

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

For the finial, I try to make it a tapered spire (sort of) so that the foot of the bowl, the rim of the disk on the stem and the finial form the lines of a cone piercing the bowl. If you know what I mean?

Yes! I understand. Next one tomorrow. Oh! But We're not supposed to start till Saturday!

Originally Posted by tea lady

Yes! I understand. Next one tomorrow. Oh! But We're not supposed to start till Saturday!

...hell, what are they gonna' do, shoot ya' ...oh wait, you'll get chastised by Eliza

Practice.. practice ...

I haven't had time to turn on my lathe for DAYS!!!!!!!!!