Sycamore bowl with walnut foot and some leather!!!

[johnny.t.]

I've been making bits and bobs for the craft fair all week and needed a break from it to make something I wanted to make!!! :lol:

I've had a little idea rattling around in my head(lots of room for them to rattle :lol: ) and decided to make it. Its spalted sycamore, with a tubular walnut foot tied on with decorative leather thonging. I would have liked to have made it much bigger but my axminster awvsl isn't keen on off centre stuff so I'm limited to quite small things of this nature.....



Its finished with woodwax22 and there are a couple of tiny bits of tear out in the bowl part that I could do nothing about as the wood is really soft but not enough to spoil the piece.

Please feel free to give critique good or bad, its all really helpful.

JT

 

[loz]

Well its different JT !!

I quite like it but not keen on the leather. I think i would replace this with maybe a pin/dowel or two extending from the back to the roller/foot

Loz

 

[Bodrighy]

I really can't make my mind up about this one. I love the innovativeness of it but not sure about the overall design. Purely a matter of personal taste. I do like using leather and sisal with wood but not sure about this one. Looks well made, finished etc though so purely personal.

pete

 

[CHJ]

Think the execution of the offset bowl is fine (constant thickness rim) but I think the support roller could do with being larger diameter in order to present it on an even keel. I personally think the crossed thonging is clashing with the well figured wood, the roller fixing would have been just enough.

 

[wizer]

I'd love it without the leather and additional foot. This is something on my tuit list.

 

[johnny.t.]

Thanks chaps.

I did try out a few ideas for the 'foot', at first I was thinking of doing something similar to what Loz suggested with two supports going through the piece with tiny finial type tops but decided this would be too much with drilling funny angles to lower the side and I liked the idea of a tied on tube as a support.
As for the angle the bowl sits, I wanted it to be uneven to show the round base off and to give a better angle to look at the top of the piece when viewed from the front(Something Duncan said about on the post of a previous flat topped piece I made.) I tried raising the long side but this resulted in the piece looking spoon like and so I lowered it.

Oh well back to the drawing board :lol: (I do still really like it meself :shock: Thought the leather and foot made it look a bit neolithic :lol: )

JT

 

[BMac]

Hi JT.

"Oh well back to the drawing board..." - you sound a bit discouraged, don't be, the execution of the design you wanted is excellent, the only difference of opinion is about detail in the finished piece.

I agree with CHJ that I would prefer a larger diameter support and I almost agree with the guys about the use of leather. I like the idea of incorporating leather so possibly one strand going across the end to hold the tube in place might give the effect you want without overpowering the figure in the wood. I just had another look and realised my idea of one strand of leather will leave two holes near the bowl so how about two strands and lose the 'x' effect?

This type of design is what makes woodturning so exciting, the only limit is your imagination.

Brendan

 

[Bodrighy]

All the criticisms have been about design JT so I wouldn't worry. You will never make the piece that everyone likes. If you are happy with it then that's what matters. The quality isn't under debate just the personal preference of design.

Pete

 

[CHJ]

......I do still really like it meself .... Thought the leather and foot made it look a bit neolithic .... JT

So who else matters if your happy with it, we are only commenting/critiquing on a pic. and we all know things can look totally different in the flesh

 

[Paul.J]

Strewth JT we are in creative mode
Well after looking at,and looking at it again,and again,i'm still not sure about it.
I don't like the Walnut with the Sycamore,just doesn't go together i think.Might look better if you blackened it so it would go better with the leather and the colour of the Sycamore.
But it's good to see something different.Just wish i could come up with summat like it :roll:
Keep em coming

 

[johnny.t.]

Woa there chaps, hold on, I'm happy. I don't get discouraged, I'm not sobbing into me sawdust or anything, I'm a big boy(6'4 and 20 stone of man) :lol: .
I ask for your critique to get other points of view and perspectives, I don't mind if you don't like something as long as you say why. I wouldn't even post my work on here if I thought everyone always said they like things regardless of what they really thought, that would be a completely pointless exercise in backslapping.
My last post simply describes how I arrived at the finished piece.
BMac just got the wrong end of the stick about my 'back to the drawing board' comment(was mean't to be a joke) :lol: :lol:

JT

 

[Dave H]

I too like the concept, but not too keen on the leather.

Unlike CHJ I like the fact that it is not on an "even keel" and if anything would like the support roller to be closer to the bowl rather than extending beyond the edge of the rim.

Again just a matter of personal taste.

 

[John. B]

I think it's nicest toilet roll holder I have ever seen. :wink: :wink: :lol: :lol:

John. B

 

[BMac]

LOL, oops!

Brendan

 

[DaveL]

I think it's nicest toilet roll holder I have ever seen. :wink: :wink: :lol: :lol:

Even somewhere to leave the penny.

I like the bowl but don't go a bundle on the support.

 

[Paul.J]

JT wrote

I'm a big boy(6'4 and 20 stone of man)

I love it JT :lol: :lol:

 

[duncanh]

It's certainly different, but it doesn't work for me.

The leather on the top is a distraction away from the interesting grain.
From the front/side the tube is a distraction form the nice, simple lines of the main part of the turning.

If you want the front edge raised from the surface then perhaps something simple like short cylinders or even hemispheres would fit with the rest of the shapes. The hemispheres would work well with the bowl part. Of course, you'd have to glue them on (or come up with some ingenious attachment mechanism).

 

[NikNak]

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hmmmhh...... :? I don't dislike.......


but... possibly brown 'flat' leather (like a strip) without the crossover, and again a larger roll.





Nick