Hi all
Thank you for your comments, they are ,much appreciated.
Francesco,
Thank you very much.
Pete
Over the last 14 years of trying to produce hollow forms trust me I have had many failures, I still have them today but thankfully much less.
After having been away from the lathe for 5 weeks I started one day with 5 roughed hollow forms for finishing, two I cut through the side of one I had a disagreement with and smashed against the floor the other two I managed to finish.
John
Thank you. I am working more and more in multilayer texturing where I carve and then texture on top of this, then will colour or age this by hitting back with a rotary wire brush. Quite often I find new ideas by making mistakes, the trick is to write them down or I forget them the next time I try it.