In response to a thread in Accoutrements about everyone's work being so great, and some desires to see some of the manure we can produce... Here's a few of my "nicer" failures of note.
What was to become a wood powder measure (apostle?), at the suggestion of another board member. Note the uneven decorations, and way off-center hole.
Here's a bunch of things waiting for the fire... Starting at the back: Split walnut vase, Warped mulberry box & lid, spalted birch egg that I took off 90% of the "nice" figure, walnut round thing that was suppossed to be a ball starter before it went flying across the shop, 2 cherry cups with checks from drying too fast, A spalted and highly figured box elder bowl with a rotted knot in the bottom that blew out leaving a gaping hole, and finally what was the base of a stemmed goblet of spalted silver birch. The goblet part blew into thousands of bits while being parted off the lathe.
For every really nice piece, there are more than a few failures. I'm not going to show off the carvings that look like buffalo chips, leather bags with less shape than an amoeba, unbalanced turnings, weaving that not even a mother could love, and bead and quill work- well the less said about that the better, I still have nightmares thinking about those.
I think we post our successes because they are all hard earned through trial &error, mostly error.
Just my 2 bits worth. Off to hide the rest of the evidence. ::
vic
What was to become a wood powder measure (apostle?), at the suggestion of another board member. Note the uneven decorations, and way off-center hole.
Here's a bunch of things waiting for the fire... Starting at the back: Split walnut vase, Warped mulberry box & lid, spalted birch egg that I took off 90% of the "nice" figure, walnut round thing that was suppossed to be a ball starter before it went flying across the shop, 2 cherry cups with checks from drying too fast, A spalted and highly figured box elder bowl with a rotted knot in the bottom that blew out leaving a gaping hole, and finally what was the base of a stemmed goblet of spalted silver birch. The goblet part blew into thousands of bits while being parted off the lathe.
For every really nice piece, there are more than a few failures. I'm not going to show off the carvings that look like buffalo chips, leather bags with less shape than an amoeba, unbalanced turnings, weaving that not even a mother could love, and bead and quill work- well the less said about that the better, I still have nightmares thinking about those.
I think we post our successes because they are all hard earned through trial &error, mostly error.
Just my 2 bits worth. Off to hide the rest of the evidence. ::
vic
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