Candlestick with a twist

[fuzzyturns]

Right, something different again. This is a piece I made for a recent club competition. Monkeypuzzle (mostly) with a bit of sycamore right at the top. And of course brass for the candle cup and the "flame within". Kemtex textile dyes and acrylic lacquer. This was a lot of work. I mean a LOT!. Won't be doing any of these anytime soon again.

[Les Symonds]

I'll agree with you that it's different, and in a very good way. Great to see a new approach to an item and I can see where all the work went - it must have taken days. It reminds me of pottery from the early end of the art nouveau period, with its natural colours and sinuous feel. Great idea - I want a pair:)
Les

[edbanger]

Now that's very smart I've been playing around with spiral twists for a while now so know how long they can take but bring the bindes dowh from the top like that and then forming the twist really adds to the piece.

I like the colour it set's well against the brass, I bet it won't be only Les that wants a pair

Ed

[GBF]

Nice work

Regards George

[georg]

    A different idea....... nice one
    Tony di

[Bryan Milham]

It's been said, great design, lots of work, wonderful colour. This is a great piece.

Any chance of a better look at the detail inside the base please.

[Derek]

I like this very much nice clean twist.


Just one question where is the other matching one to make it a pair complete with a twist in the opposite direction

[fuzzyturns]

Thank you all for the feedback, it is most appreciated.

it must have taken days.

It did take days (sigh).

Great idea - I want a pair:)
Les

As said, that's going to take a while.
I have some more pictures to take of other pieces, and I'll see how well I can get the base shown in a picture. Watch this space.

[fuzzyturns]

OK, didn't take that long, so here's a detail picture of the base.

[Mark Sanger]

I like this a lot, thanks for showing.

[z3ddie]

Lovely! Did you make the brass finial in the base yourself?

[fuzzyturns]

Yes, I did. I do not actually have a wood turning lathe (yet), I use an engineering lathe with an adapter piece so I can mount a wood turning chuck. It has its drawbacks (not all cuts are possible because the saddle/apron get in the way), but then there are advantages such as doing metalwork. Having said that, brass isn't all that hard, and you could probably turn brass on a wood lathe, running at slow speed and with the right tools. And brass does polish very nicely.

[z3ddie]

Well done  you - I love the combination of brass and copper with wood and this is a very unique (to me) piece of work.  The way it is mounted is quite stunning.

[Bryan Milham]

Thanks for the extra photo, a big +1 from me.

[seventhdevil]

you can turn brass on a wood lathe as i did exactly that for a project where i could not find myself 6mm plate to cut in to circles to used as inset discs to denote where some skittles stood. i bought a 3" billet and got a mate to cut it thinly and carefully mounted them in my c jaws on an axminster chuck and used an old scraper at about 600rpm.

took a while but well worth it.