Post pics of what you saw and admired

[Eshmiel]

In another thread "Post the last thing you made" there's a parallel discusssion in which tthings made by others that the poster admires are pictured and discussed. Here's a distinct thread for those things.

A small start: some abstract bird carvings that I've had for many years that, for me, illustrate the principle "less is more". I can't recall the name of the carver now.

Would anyone else like to post such pics, preferably of things you have yourself but also of other things you may have come across and admired? Wooden things, naturally; but also metal, pottery and other media.

 

[Jacob]

I came across this recently. Can't say I admire it particularly but it has novelty value and I've added it to my collection.

 

[Cabinetman]

Made by my newly acquired Daughter, cake decorations made from sugar. She is so clever it’s unbelievable.

 

[Steliz]

I recently paid a visit to the national gallery in Budapest and this piece in particular caught my eye. I thought I had taken better pictures than this but the detail is amazing.

 

[gregmcateer]

Not strictly workshop, but a friend has launched a brilliant improvement to fixing the waste when installing shower trays - 'Topfix' - it's clever! Just slide through hole in tray and tighten the screw to pull the gasket seal into position

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Tilman Riemenschneider.

 

[Puggers]

In clay

 

[Gant]

View attachment IMG_5333.jpegA screen with curved bifold doors in Gaudi’s Batllo house in Barcelona. Over 100 years old, and still closes nicely.

 

[Jacob]

Just remembered I did actually do a "carving" of sorts - here https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/thread...st-thing-you-made.81798/page-219#post-1416236
Planed flat and square on 3 sides (by hand, too many nails for machine). Marked up precisely. Sawn out with 4tpi rip saw. Planed down to the marks with No 5 etc, finishing into the corners with a Stanley 78.
The design was from the legs of an old table seen in France many years ago. It was on all 4 sides of the leg, not just one, so it had 4 zig zags.
Keep meaning to have another go!
Churches are the place to look! Most intense and impressive human representations I saw were religious bits n bobs in a museum in Funchal Madeira - particularly a group of peasants in crucifixion scene. I didn't have a camera. PS found them here. Very expressive, have to be seen in the flesh

 

[TRITON]

N*S*F*W

 

[squib]

Very simple, no nails,pins,screws or glue....
Made in 1826 in Skandaweega.

 

[Jacob]

Very simple, no nails,pins,screws or glue....
Made in 1826 in Skandaweega.

Native American bark box! Lots of them about and the Shakers took up the tradition. Or where they also made on our side of the pond?
Couldn't locate Skandaweega?

 

[Eshmiel]

Very simple, no nails,pins,screws or glue....
Made in 1826 in Skandaweega.

Very nice, that. It's got the natural form and surface of a shrink pot but looks like the material - birch bark? - might be more malleable.

Does anyone know of a website or YouTube vid showing how these are made? One could make guesses by looking at this one but it's always good to have the short-cut of a knowledgeable explanation, with the important little details.

 

[Eshmiel]

Here are some things we have aboot the hoose, made by Roy Thedval who works in metal including wrought iron.

https://www.roythedvall.co.uk/

The crockery in the last pic is from the makers at Caer Farchell, Solva

 

[squib]

Native American bark box! Lots of them about and the Shakers took up the tradition. Or where they also made on our side of the pond?
Couldn't locate Skandaweega?

Sorry, Skandinavian!

 

[squib]

Very nice, that. It's got the natural form and surface of a shrink pot but looks like the material - birch bark? - might be more malleable.

Does anyone know of a website or YouTube vid showing how these are made? One could make guesses by looking at this one but it's always good to have the short-cut of a knowledgeable explanation, with the important little details.

Sometimes the birch bark is pinned/stitched with thorns.

 

[Cabinetman]

I bought theses Cafe au Lait pots a few years ago, one for coffee and the other for hot milk, the idea is you have one in each hand to mix as you pour. I just love the proportions and the overall design.
The coffee table is one of mine btw, brown Oak panels set in an Oak surround.

 

[Eshmiel]

I bought theses Cafe au Lait pots a few years ago, one for coffee and the other for hot milk, the idea is you have one in each hand to mix as you pour. I just love the proportions and the overall design.
The coffee table is one of mine btw, brown Oak panels set in an Oak surround.

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Brown oak! I'd like some but its quite unusual and rarely found even when skip-diving.

I read that the browning is caused in live trees by the presence of the "beefsteak" bracket fungus. Do you know of it?

This year I've been attempting to spalt some of the green wood I have for making spoons and bowls, which includes beech. Some (most) of the spalting I've induced in beech is the "standard" black lines and yellowing with the odd pink tinge. But I have one piece of beech trunk, about 12" in diameter, that seems to have turned the same brown as brown oak. I'm wondering if this too is the "beefsteak" bracket fungus at work.

The unspalted beech from the same tree is the usual very pale brown/cream colour but this brown spalted stuff is quite a dark brown with only a few lighter streaks here and there and no black lines. It would be good to know which fungus has been at work but I'm no mycologist.

I like them coffee pots BTW. I am a coffee addict, meself.

 

[Cabinetman]

Yes I know it as Beefsteak, and sometimes as on that table it’s striped, refered to as Tiger stripe beefsteak. The stripes are exactly as they were on the board before it was cut into small rectangles, in other words the thin bits between the rectangles were discarded.
I love the stuff and used it as panels in frame type furniture, the yard where I always used to go when I was in the uk had quite a bit of it and when talking last time said that sales had dropped right off. But then perhaps people didn’t know they had it.
They didn’t buy it in but discovered it in some boards - mainly at the bottom of the tree.
The first ever bit of Spalted wood I came across in use was over here, American Ash. I always considered it to be a defect but now having planed some up it’s going to be seen on my new bench top, quite like it’s randomness.
A bed I made with Brown Oak panels.

 

[Doris]

Very simple, no nails,pins,screws or glue....
Made in 1826 in Skandaweega.

I remember seeing a video on youtube years ago on how these are made. Always wanted to make one, but the ideal of cutting into a live tree always put me off.