Mallee spirals

[hughie]

I have been absent ... awol perhaps    A number of different reasons have keep me off the lathe for most of this year. Finally got some time as the weather warms up to hot. I  added the finishing touches to this as the thermometer read 38.5C in the workshop.

Mallee burl [ burr 'UK translation' ]  8 spirals encompassing one full turn or 360' on the body of the vessel. Finished with Danish Oil home recipe and buffed approx 200 mm dia x 100 mm high.

[edbanger]

Another fantastic piece Hughie 

[Graham]

Wonderful work as always. We are hotter than that here ( if you ignore the difference in temp scales )

[hughie]

Wonderful work as always. We are hotter than that here ( if you ignore the difference in temp scales )

Yeah its early days for us, my shop reached 38 but some parts 44. When gets over 45 I find a bit too much and the wipe on poly goes off way too fast.

[GwilymF]

Saw this on WoW Hughie, Its a great piece
Gwilym,.

[malcy]

Nice piece Hughie. Love the spiral cuts. Malcolm.

[georg]

    Like the depth to the spirals Hughie ...... and the lovely glow to the burr
     a very nice piece
     Tony di

[woodndesign]

Awesome piece, one beaut of a timber.

Cheers  David

[Bryan Milham]

Hughie,

maybe it's the sheen you've achieved, maybe it's the 8 full turn spirals, but probably it's the strange way I think and sometime see things ...

... but I look at this vessel and see the arms of an octopus wrapped around a pot, about to see if it can fit inside.

The spirals (arms) are thicker and more round in cross section than your vessels with more spirals, the mottled effect of the burr (burl) along with the sheen is the wet skin, the spiral (arm) tips reaching towards the hole.

I don’t know if it’s wrong to see what the creator did not intend, but the overall effect makes me see an octopus!

And because I can see something more in this form than those you’ve posted previously I think it is the most interesting, and for your work that, that is saying something.

A truly lovely thing to behold.

[Graham]

There. I told you it was catching. 

[hughie]

Hughie,

maybe it's the sheen you've achieved, maybe it's the 8 full turn spirals, but probably it's the strange way I think and sometime see things ...

... but I look at this vessel and see the arms of an octopus wrapped around a pot, about to see if it can fit inside.

The spirals (arms) are thicker and more round in cross section than your vessels with more spirals, the mottled effect of the burr (burl) along with the sheen is the wet skin, the spiral (arm) tips reaching towards the hole.

I don’t know if it’s wrong to see what the creator did not intend, but the overall effect makes me see an octopus!

And because I can see something more in this form than those you’ve posted previously I think it is the most interesting, and for your work that, that is saying something.

A truly lovely thing to behold.

Sometimes this happens even to me. As I often imagine a piece, but its always a general image and the detail only comes out as I  bring it to life.