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Malcolm Tibbetts

Global Spring

Curly maple with a few black, brown, white, yellow and red segments.

21 tall (including granite base), 1,024 rings of 16 segments per ring, totaling 16,384 segments, finished with Deft. The tube is hollow, but not turned inside, with an average wall thickness.
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When I first saw the picture of your piece- breakfaast ceral came to mind. I can just imagine the time it took to do this. Did you weigh the piece?

Gary
 
Peter Gray
Malcolm, a close up of one small section & my brain has gone into overdrive trying to cope.
This is an unbeliveable piece, 10 + 10 +10
 
Joe Greiner
At the size you state, the largest segment would be about 1/4" x 3/8" (measured from a print of the photo) - possibly smaller. Amazing.

At first glance, the varying thickness of the sub-donuts looked like a mistake. But now I see there's some order to the pattern. Amazing again. I suppose uniform thicknesses would be too easy.

Also interesting you used multiples of 16 for everything. Mathematical in spite of itself.
 
KurtB
Amazing!!!

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Bill Wyko
Malcolm, once again you've out done yourself (along with everyone else) You are truly an inspiration.
 

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