Mark Hepburn
Artist & Chef
Hi All:
I posted here because it seems I get lot more helpful commentary than by posting in the Gallery. Did that the first time and no comments so far. Since the goal for me is improvement, I'd rather post here if it isn't a rules violation so I can get useful feedback. To the bowl...
My boss had an old house torn down here in South Louisiana. It was an old Acadian cottage - sort of a sharecropper's house - and was made from mostly cypress cut and milled from trees on site. Built sort of like a timber frame but different in some respects. Lots of square cut nails and actually some forged nails too.
Anyway, she called me when the house was knocked down and spent a good bit of time helping me load my pickup with a bunch of choice pieces, including some floor joists (this is pier construction) - that are 16' by 12" by 9"! They really built that house and it stood through every hurricane for the past 100+ years.
Sorry to be so long-winded. Point is, that as a thank you, I took some of the wood and made her a segmented bowl to have as a keepsake of that old house. The bowl is made of cypress, something that looks like the local 'mahogany", a piece of magnolia (ugly stuff, that in my opinion), and a bit of live oak.
So the bowl is intended to look rustic and has a shellac finish and you can see the grain texture apparent which is fine by me. I want it to look sort of like it is an old bowl. The nail holes are visible and if you see the last photo, I've embedded a couple of the forged nails in the bottom, and covered with Enviro-Tex. I realized after I made the bowl that I didn't brick-pattern the segments (again). I know the photos aren't the greatest but I'm working on that too.
I'd appreciate your comments.
Thanks,
Mark
I posted here because it seems I get lot more helpful commentary than by posting in the Gallery. Did that the first time and no comments so far. Since the goal for me is improvement, I'd rather post here if it isn't a rules violation so I can get useful feedback. To the bowl...
My boss had an old house torn down here in South Louisiana. It was an old Acadian cottage - sort of a sharecropper's house - and was made from mostly cypress cut and milled from trees on site. Built sort of like a timber frame but different in some respects. Lots of square cut nails and actually some forged nails too.
Anyway, she called me when the house was knocked down and spent a good bit of time helping me load my pickup with a bunch of choice pieces, including some floor joists (this is pier construction) - that are 16' by 12" by 9"! They really built that house and it stood through every hurricane for the past 100+ years.
Sorry to be so long-winded. Point is, that as a thank you, I took some of the wood and made her a segmented bowl to have as a keepsake of that old house. The bowl is made of cypress, something that looks like the local 'mahogany", a piece of magnolia (ugly stuff, that in my opinion), and a bit of live oak.
So the bowl is intended to look rustic and has a shellac finish and you can see the grain texture apparent which is fine by me. I want it to look sort of like it is an old bowl. The nail holes are visible and if you see the last photo, I've embedded a couple of the forged nails in the bottom, and covered with Enviro-Tex. I realized after I made the bowl that I didn't brick-pattern the segments (again). I know the photos aren't the greatest but I'm working on that too.
I'd appreciate your comments.
Thanks,
Mark