Levitate

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Very interesting concept! Well done

This is very cool, Dave! I love the concept. Can you talk about the bent leg a bit? Did you carve or bend it?

Michael Anderson said:

This is very cool, Dave! I love the concept. Can you talk about the bent leg a bit? Did you carve or bend it?

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Sure!
I started with a cap turned from scrap that fit into the hole where the finial is now. I hot-glued that to the hollow form and glued in a couple lengths of wire (12 ga from my electrical junk bin). That allowed me to experiment with the leg(s). One idea was 2 legs with the bottom of the HF as a 3rd support. But I settled on this single-leg "levitation" form with the leg going into the base.
The wire then served as a rough guide for cutting out the leg shape. It was cut from a 1/4" thick piece of maple, then carved and sanded round (ish). I left it long on both ends thru the sanding, dye (India ink), and finishing steps. Then I test-fit it into the HF and trimmed the top to length. Ground/sanded down the end so it'd fit into the hole in the bottom of the finial, and epoxied those two pieces together. Next the bottom end got the same length adjustment and sanded down to fit into the hole in the base. Then threaded the leg thru the HF and epoxied the finial in.
A bit of test-fitting and hole adjustment with the leg in the base to ensure the HF was standing straight, and finally epoxying the leg into the base.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing the process. A lot of work, but fun and totally worth it! I can imagine my own thoughts if I were to make something like this--"this is gonna be so cool. hope it works. I'm so excited!" Good stuff, Dave.

Nicely done Dave. I love that the leg is wood; it’s very unwood looking. I love how the base and vessel are the same material, not easy to do, not done very often.

Russ Braun said:

Nicely done Dave. I love that the leg is wood; it’s very unwood looking. I love how the base and vessel are the same material, not easy to do, not done very often.

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Thanks, Russ!
I like the continuity of the same wood spanning across the air gap of a leg or stem. I do that with my goblets, too.