22" wall hanging platter in English Elm

[Les Symonds]

It was a very special day when I found the board that this platter came from! I cut out a 22" blank, which is too big to go over the bed on my lathe, so had to turn it with the headstock swivelled, but that's a problem because access from the end of my lathe is a bit restricted. With such a special piece of wood I wanted the finished thing to be more than just another platter, and I'm working on an idea of using a 1/4" diameter decorative leather thong to hide a securing copper wire going around a burr that I'm about to turn, so this was the chance to try something out. The cabochon of stone is a 2" jasper agate, the colour of which goes well with the elm.







Finished with a few coats of microcrystaline, machine buffed.

C&C always welcome....Les

[GBF]

very nice les one of my favourite woods

Regards George

[bodrighywood]

Lovely piece Les and again you have added your own personal touch making it something special

pete

[malcy]

Very nice, Les. Lovely piece of wood with your very own special,touch to complete it. Malcolm.

[Derek]

A well thought out piece, and great grain which you have brought out well in the design of it.

[georg]

    Another piece finished with true finesse Les..... Great tool work used to keep the sharp lines.
    Tony & di

[GREEN MAN]

A great piece of work there Les

You would need a fair sized table or even a wall to display that one!

I wonder if you thought about adding more cabochon's at 3,6 and 9 o'clock positions?

Probably just personal taste but I would have tried to make the beads more pronounced and rounded like the leather thong. In the pictures they seem a bit flattish (but maybe that is just the photos).

A great piece to be proud of

Kind regards

David

[Bryan Milham]

Les,

Your ability to see 'beyond', to not only form a shape but deliver that little bit more with every project never ceases to amaze me.

I really love this piece.

[Les Symonds]

Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments. I had great fun making this and learnt a bit along the way. I must admit that as it progressed, I had the feeling that it was going to turn out well. I needed the grain to be reasonably well balanced and was lucky that there was just enough feature in it to keep it looking good, but to retain the understated effect that I was after.

...I wonder if you thought about adding more cabochon's at 3,6 and 9 o'clock positions?....

Definitely not....there was a plan in my mind, from the very outset, to add simple, but effective embellishment to this beautiful piece of wood; the stone and the leather are there to support the wood, any more and I feel that they would have taken over.

Les

[bodrighywood]

Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments. I had great fun making this and learnt a bit along the way. I must admit that as it progressed, I had the feeling that it was going to turn out well. I needed the grain to be reasonably well balanced and was lucky that there was just enough feature in it to keep it looking good, but to retain the understated effect that I was after.

...I wonder if you thought about adding more cabochon's at 3,6 and 9 o'clock positions?....

Definitely not....there was a plan in my mind, from the very outset, to add simple, but effective embellishment to this beautiful piece of wood; the stone and the leather are there to support the wood, any more and I feel that they would have taken over.

Les

Don't make the mistake I make sometimes in other words....adding one embellishment too many. LOL

pete

[GREEN MAN]

Fair points and fair play to you both (Les & Pete)

I have yet to get into embellishing any of my work - so I don't really know what I'm talking about but I did want to comment on this great piece.

In hindsight my suggestion would have made it look like a clock face which would have definitely been wrong for this piece of timber.

I would just have stuck another two in at 4 and 8 o'clock instead - Only Joking 

Kind regards

David

[Eric Harvey]

NICE.