Cu-banded pot

[Les Symonds]

Another commissioned piece, using the customer's own wood; which was seriously badly cracked, so it needed loads of clingfilm and gaffer tape when I hollowed it.





The biggest issue with this piece was making a neat coil of the copper, keeping it under tension and in a tight coil as I fed it on...there was over 10metres of it.

The pot is 8.5" tall and a little over 7"diameter, finished with BLO.
C&C always welcome...Les

[fuzzyturns]

I'd say this is probably the best you could have gotten out of that piece short of dousing it in superglue or epoxy resin. How do you hold the wire on? CA glue?

[Les Symonds]

...How do you hold the wire on? CA glue?

I start and finish with a 1.5mm hole drilled about 1cm deep, bend the end of the wire over and CA the wire into the hole.....I also put occasional spots of CA under the wire as I'm winding it onto the bowl.
Les

[Bryan Milham]

I like it but I'll like it more in a few years when the copper wire you've used picks up the green tinge of verdigris. So please tell me it was bare copper not lacquered.

I know it is convention that if someone give you wood, you turn a piece for them, but you have people bringing in pieces of wood and then they pay you to make something of it, love it.

[georg]

             A lot of hard work and dedication has gone into this piece Les
             Feel sure that your customer will be very pleased with it.
             Kind Regards
             Tony & di