A peek into several sketches from tonight. Almost everything I did today was related to woodturning but ironically I didn't spend any time in the shop.
From 10 to Noon I had a Desert Woodturning Roundup committee meeting. Noon to 4 was the Arizona Woodturners Association monthly meeting. After the meeting I dropped a friend's house as he had some wood for me.
This sketch is an idea for a hollow form I've been kicking around for a while but haven't put to paper. I plan to cut windows out of the top of the piece leaving a bridge of wood surrounding the hole used to hollow it out.
Simple vase form.
Another fairly simple form.
Square opening. This will involve a fair amount of hand carving and sanding but I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Similar form to the drawing 2 spots up but with a curved slot extending from the opening down the side of the piece.
The President's challenge for October is "Goblets". I have a couple of ideas I'd like to try.
Eccentric stem with a captured ring. I'd like the ring to be small enough to be captured between the transitions from the 2 centers.
Eccentric turning on the stem again, this time with an offset sphere.
A continuation on the goblet above but with the sphere centered. The twist here is that I want to hollow the sphere, paint it olive green and then insert a small piece of red colored wood and a toothpick so that it looks like a pimento stuffed olive stuck in the middle of the stem rather than in the drink.
Last one tonight. Goblet with an angled rim. I could hollow it out and then cut it at an angle but that would be too easy. I plan to cut it first and then hollow it, possibly adding a captured ring as well.
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