During the all day demonstration in Whitby this past weekend part of my discussion was about the casting process I do. Here are the results of the piece of wormy box elder burl that was cast that day.
I added a lid to the vase to make it complete. The lid is also a piece of box elder burl , but with out the wormy attributes. The lid was turned and sanded, but not before adding two rings with my skew. The lid was then coated in India Ink and sanded back down slightly to give it a darkened effect. The lid was then dyed blue and the two rings were dyed red and yellow respectively. The lid decorating was part of the process used by Doug Fisher at the hands-on workshop I attended a few weeks ago.
The box was finished with a few coats of Tung Oil and then polished up on my Beall Buffing system. The was only finished on the Beall System without any sort of finish prior to that.
The vessel is @ 3.5" in dia. and @ 2.5" in height.
As for the Durham Club, they are a great bunch of folks to spend the day with. We even had a late entry to the demo when Mack C in Brooklin arrived in the early afternoon. Better late than never they say, even if you are a scroller.
Thanks
Dave
I added a lid to the vase to make it complete. The lid is also a piece of box elder burl , but with out the wormy attributes. The lid was turned and sanded, but not before adding two rings with my skew. The lid was then coated in India Ink and sanded back down slightly to give it a darkened effect. The lid was then dyed blue and the two rings were dyed red and yellow respectively. The lid decorating was part of the process used by Doug Fisher at the hands-on workshop I attended a few weeks ago.
The box was finished with a few coats of Tung Oil and then polished up on my Beall Buffing system. The was only finished on the Beall System without any sort of finish prior to that.
The vessel is @ 3.5" in dia. and @ 2.5" in height.
As for the Durham Club, they are a great bunch of folks to spend the day with. We even had a late entry to the demo when Mack C in Brooklin arrived in the early afternoon. Better late than never they say, even if you are a scroller.
Thanks
Dave
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