3 legged carved oak bowl

[johnny.t.]

I got my Proxxon long neck grinder with mini arbortech blades today(late xmas pressie from Mrs JT ) and had a little play 8)
Made this Oak bowl on 3 black dyed Ash legs,its 9" wide with a carved and textured rim coloured with chestnut dyes.

Comments and critique appreciated

JT

 

[loz]

Very Nice !

I'd never dare add legs to mine fearing the wobble !!

I'm windering if a bead around the inner bowl rim though would enhance ?, this would put the texturing in a border and make the inner bowl have cleaner lines ?

Lovely stuff Johnny.

Loz

 

[Turn It In]

Hi Johnny,
Well I can see you have been making up for lost time with the Proxon.
personally I like the top but I feel the legs would have looked better tapered and the underside a little bit slimmer but i do like the effect on the top.
I look forward to seeing more from the application of the cutter on your pieces.
Hope you are starting to feel better now.
Regards,
Ian

 

[CHJ]

....I'd never dare add legs to mine fearing the wobble !!

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No risk of that with 3 legs Loz.

 

[loz]

....I'd never dare add legs to mine fearing the wobble !!

...

No risk of that with 3 legs Loz.

With my acuracy it would be tilted then Chas !

 

[CHJ]

Like the idea of the dark contrast with the Oak JT, I tend to go with TiN regarding legs looking a little heavy.
I know using stains makes it difficult to prevent wicking but I would have liked to see the red groves more colour defined and perhaps a little black banding on the cut edges to (inner & outer bowl) to mask the groove ends which to my eyes look a little ragged due to stain bleed I think.

 

[CHJ]

With my acuracy it would be tilted then Chas !

That's OK it's a feature :lol: , easy to overcome just make legs a good push fit and tap them in a bit at a time to level it.

Apologies for the hijack JT.

 

[Haldane]

I like it the affect on the bowl rim with the carving and colour it is very striking, maybe would have made the bowl part in the centre a little larger so it does not look too overpowered by the rim, otherwise great and thew legs work well too

Dave

 

[johnny.t.]

Thanks chaps

I went for straight legs as the piece is very heavy(being a big chunk of oak) and I wanted to reflect this in the legs and I also felt that the straight legs set in straight gives it a more contemporary feel.

Chas, you're right a small black line on the inner and outer edge of the bowl would have tidied the edges perfectly #-o

JT

 

[Racers]

Hi,

Very nice, I would prefer pointy legs to make look like its floating.


Pete