A bit more conventional LOL

[Bodrighy]

Spalted chestnut, 14" diameter hollowed out. Finial is from some scraps of purple heart and the three chopsticks are 10" and were in a pack of a dozen I got from a charity shop.

 

[MMUK]

That spalted Chestnut looks gorgeous Would it be impertinent to ask what it is though? It seems a bit OTT for a chopstick holder and I think I'd be worried if I came across someone who needed three at once :lol:

 

[Bodrighy]

That spalted Chestnut looks gorgeous Would it be impertinent to ask what it is though? It seems a bit OTT for a chopstick holder and I think I'd be worried if I came across someone who needed three at once :lol:

I make a lot of things that other people want in order to make a living but as some of the older members will tell you I like to make things that are purely decorative as well often using things and wood that are perhaps other people's rejects. This one is based on oriental style pottery and is, as I sometimes say to customers who as the question "To enhance your living environment".....always assuming you find it attractive of course LOL.

Pete

 

[MMUK]

Can't argue with that Pete

It's different and I like it

 

[Soylent1]

I think it's beautiful!
form does not always require function, function however mostly requires form - somebody who's name I can't remember said this, I think? if not I claim it as my own!

 

[dennisk]

LIKE IT, FROM SAN DIEGO WHERE ITS WARM. NOTICE IM FROM ACME , WHERE IT IS FRIGGGING COLD

 

[boysie39]

I like it Pete !! You have really brought out the beauty of the piece of wood .

Thank you.

 

[MMUK]

LIKE IT, FROM SAN DIEGO WHERE ITS WARM. NOTICE IM FROM ACME , WHERE IT IS FRIGGGING COLD

You're in about the only bit of the States that isn't below freezing and covered in snow then? :lol:

 

[winemaker]

Beautiful =D> =D>

 

[KimG]

Another cracker Pete, I especially like your response to the eternal customers question "What's it for?"
"To enhance your living environment" is now firmly a part of my own set of responses!

 

[Tazmaniandevil]

Absolutely beautiful. Your turnings give me, a humble beginner, something to aspire to. Maybe in a hundred years or do.
"To enhance your living environment" is so much more poetic than my usual, "Please your guts," response.