Thread: red mallee burl box

Hello Smiife. Congratulation Simply beautiful, I'm sure Andrew wold be happy of what you did with his design.

Cheers Tony,

hi tony,
thanks for your comments mate,
i have always like andrews work and this was a piece i
wanted to try,i think it turned out ok...sorry for the pun
cheers smiife

Lovely job,
Jim

thats impressive!

Nice job and well done.

The lid needed to carry the line of the top IMO instead of having a curve. If the top had curved from from the lip you may have got away with a curve on the lid.

Similar to this one.

potocnik9.jpg

I tend to agree with otherwise that's a very nice piece

Originally Posted by

Nice job and well done.

The lid needed to carry the line of the top IMO instead of having a curve. If the top had curved from from the lip you may have got away with a curve on the lid.

Your right on .

Technically well turned.

Design wise there are too many different elements, shapes and colours, which all tend to clash in the finished piece.

The simple shapes are the hardest to get right.

Even harder to get right in very plain timbers with no grain.

My 2 bobs worth.

Cheers

Tim

Originally Posted by

Nice job and well done.

The lid needed to carry the line of the top IMO instead of having a curve. If the top had curved from from the lip you may have got away with a curve on the lid.

Yep...or even make the lid "dished" in part way then have the finial plunge upward from there. Good work otherwise

hi guys,
thanks to all for your comments i appreciate them all
and take what has been said on board,

is the photo of the box something you have made??????

tim, not too sure about your comment of '' very plain timber with no grain'' ????????????
anyway you are entitled to your view and thanks for the two bob


cheers smiife

is the photo of the box something you have made??????

No, it was one of Andrews earlier pieces. I put it up to illustrate what I meant.

Originally Posted by smiife

tim, not too sure about your comment of '' very plain timber with no grain'' ????????????
anyway you are entitled to your view and thanks for the two bob


cheers smiife

Sorry smiife

I can understand the confusion when I read my post.

The last 2 comments were general observations and not related to to your piece.

To elaborate further, a piece turned out of plain Huon Pine needs to be spot on in shape and proportions as the timber has very little in the way of features to draw the eye.

Hope that makes more sense.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Tim

superb, I like it a lot

Now I disagree (as I'm allowed to do). The different colour raised rim enables you to get away with the lid not following the rest of the line of the top.

I do think the finial is a little heavy though, especially in the thread images, then blown up and you can see the carving it's better, but still a little strong for me.

But we'd be boring if we were all the same.

Nice piece, I like it.