Turning of the Week for February 27, 2023

[Brian Horais]

My selection for Turning of the Week of February 27, 2023, is "Round and Brown" by Andy Chen. At first glance, this just looks like another brown bowl with a rough finish. I’m glad I took Andy’s advice and looked at his YouTube video on thin-stacked paper bowls. I found his bowl to be an amazing departure from traditional turning. Andy indicates that he was intrigued and inspired by Li Hongbo’s work on thin-stacked paper sculptures. Well done, Andy! The uniqueness of your piece made my selection process easy.

 

[hockenbery]

Andy this piece is well deserving and amazing.
brian, great choice

 

[Donna Banfield]

Great choice, Brian! Andy did such an amazing job creating this 'slinky' bowl.

 

[Michael Anderson]

Great choice--truly a fun and unique bowl! Also, thank you for mentioning Li Hongbo. I had seen this technique before in sculptural pieces, but I couldn't remember form whom. For the uninitiated:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pik2BcQF8ZQ

 

[Andy Chen]

My selection for Turning of the Week for February 27, 2023 is “Round and Brown” by Andy Chen. At first glance this just looks like another brown bowl with a rough finish. I’m glad I took Andy’s advice and looked at his YouTube video on thin-stacked paper bowls. I found his bowl to an amazing departure from traditional turning. Andy indicates that he was intrigued and inspired by Li Hongbo’s work on thin-stacked paper sculptures. Well done, Andy! The uniqueness of your piece made my selection process easy.

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nERL2qV3bjw

Wow, Brian, thanks for the honor! I apologize for the slow reaction. I have been having too much fun in the shop and hadn't realized that you had picked it for the award. I had put it on the show-and-tell table at our club's February meeting. People always pick up the turnings to check how thick the wall is, how smooth the inside is, etc, the usual things a typical woodturner would do. Nobody bothered to touch my paper bowl probably because it looked like a crappy round-and-brown. It gave me great satisfaction when there was a big gasp as I picked it up to tell about it.🙂

I don't have enough room here to explain how this was done but Josh Friend has agreed to put my how-to article in the American Woodturner. Stay tuned.