Turning of the Week, June 6, 2022

[Emiliano Achaval]

This week's TOTW team member John Lucas chose Dave Landers piece: Natural Surface Goblet. A great choice! Below is what John said about the piece:
Natural surface goblet by Dave Landers. As a former spelunker this immediately caught my attention. That and the unusual and unique use of burl wood. It brought back many memories of the beauty of a cave.
Congratulations Dave!!

 

[Emiliano Achaval]

Somehow I missed this amazing work when it was posted. Great choice by John Lucas! Nicely done Dave. I'm trying to run the steps through my head to see how you did it!

 

[Jason Goodrich]

Trying to figure this out as well. Very nice.

 

[Donna Banfield]

Congratulations, Dave. What an unusual and unique way to create a goblet. The balance and form on this are proportioned nicely. Your stem between the base and cup is perfect, in my humble opinion. A single bead set between two coves. You could have done a single continuous stem, but this small and simple bead works well. Anything more than the bead would have made the stem very busy and compete with the gnarly natural edge of the burl at the base and bottom of the cup. Nicely done.

 

[Dave Landers]

Thanks everyone for the comments.
I was not thinking about caves when I made it, but certainly noticed it when it was done.
@Donna Banfield you echoed my thoughts on goblet stems. Detailed enough to be “something “, but not so much as to “steal the show”

Making the bowl was fun. Screw chuck to start and establish a hole for the stem, then hot glue with little wedges in a shallow waste wood bowl for the hollowing. Hard bit is removing the hot glue from the burl points!

 

[Les Rassi]

Thanks everyone for the comments.
I was not thinking about caves when I made it, but certainly noticed it when it was done.
@Donna Banfield you echoed my thoughts on goblet stems. Detailed enough to be “something “, but not so much as to “steal the show”

Making the bowl was fun. Screw chuck to start and establish a hole for the stem, then hot glue with little wedges in a shallow waste wood bowl for the hollowing. Hard bit is removing the hot glue from the burl points!

Thanks everyone for the comments.
I was not thinking about caves when I made it, but certainly noticed it when it was done.
@Donna Banfield you echoed my thoughts on goblet stems. Detailed enough to be “something “, but not so much as to “steal the show”

Making the bowl was fun. Screw chuck to start and establish a hole for the stem, then hot glue with little wedges in a shallow waste wood bowl for the hollowing. Hard bit is removing the hot glue from the burl points!

Hey Dave, Hot melt glue will come off easily with denatured alcohol. I use a small glue bottle and drip it on the glue and it starts to come loose almost immediately.

 

[john lucas]

Yes alcohol does remove hot glue but I have found it comed off a lot easier if you apply a finish of some sort on the burl before you use the hot glue.

 

[Dave Landers]

Yep. I use denatured alcohol in a spray bottle. It works mostly but I always have a little bit that needs some help (dental tools, etc). Applying finish first is a good idea, assuming you can think farther ahead than I normally seem to do

 

[hockenbery]

Yep. I use denatured alcohol in a spray bottle. It works mostly but I always have a little bit that needs some help (dental tools, etc). Applying finish first is a good idea, assuming you can think farther ahead than I normally seem to do

Nice piece! About thinking ahead. I often solve a problem only to discover the solution creates 2 more problems …

 

[Philip Rose]

Yep. I use denatured alcohol in a spray bottle. It works mostly but I always have a little bit that needs some help (dental tools, etc). Applying finish first is a good idea, assuming you can think farther ahead than I normally seem to do

I do a lot of these natural edge bottom burls, sometimes as large as 16 to 18 inches in "diameter". One of the keys I've found is to make sure the hot melt is in big chunks. Avoid little whisks and trails, as they are indeed harder to get off as there is little to grab onto (and sometimes harder to see until you are well into finishing .