spalted beech and Bubinga lidded form

[mark sanger]

This is another spalted beech lidded form with a bubinga lid and turned finial with silver bead

170 mm dia x 160 high

finished in renaissance wax

comments welcome

 

[Bodrighy]

Slow down.... :lol: How many compliments do you want in one day for goodness sake. Look at the other threads and paste them in for yourself.

Pete

 

[wizer]

If I'm trying to find something to be critical about, I'd say the beads on the finial look a little irregular. But perhaps that was intentional. I do like the style of this finial, an idea I might shamelessly steal.

 

[mikec]

That hangs together nicely Mark.

The colour of the Bubinga nicely complements the main body.

Like the detail where the finial joins the body, I think it makes a good join for the curves of the two pieces.

Mike C

 

[mark sanger]

Pete

:lol: :lol: I wanted to post some of my regular work to show that I still also love natural wood.

Wizer

No I think you are correct looking at it. But It doesn't look quite as noticeable in the flesh. I must pay more attention. . I started these finials as an alternative to the carved finials to speed things up at demos/give an alternative idea. Also to speed up the making of the forms

No excuse and thanks for keeping me on my toes.

Oh help yourself with the finial design. It is nothing new. the thing I like to do with it is not to make it straight sided and to concave the upward form of the finial.

That way it adds a nice flow from the form instead of a straight dead line. It only needs be very slight.


Mike

Thank you

The join at the lid was an experiment after comments from George W about the lift at the top of the form. I thought I would try this but am not sure if I totally like it as for me it is a bit classical. But if others like it then that is a good indicator.

Thank you again all

 

[DaveL]

Mark,

I like this one more than the one with the textured lid, not sure why but it just hits the spot for me.

Thinking about the bead size, how about making them graduated, getting larger as the diameter increases? :-k

 

[Paul.J]

Beautiful looking piece again Mark,but i think the finial is too long on this one.
Great work again though

 

[mark sanger]

Dave

Thank you for the idea and comments, I will explore that one.

Paul.

Thank you, thanks for the observation. The finial is half the height of the form which makes the finial 1/3 of the overall inclusive. I normally work to this formula. I think that as the picture is taken from a slightly elevated view t makes the base look smaller in height than it actually is.

That's my excuse any how :lol: :lol:. It also may be as the finial gets thicker at the top which draws the eye up.

However I will keep an eye on the next one and play around a bit as it may be in this case the 1/3 rule needs to be broken. Thank you for pointing it out. Sometimes I can not see for looking.