Very Interesting Piece.

Steve Promo is visiting James Johnson in Kerrville TX.  Some of you may remember James from the the two day hands on demonstration he did for our club a few years back.  Steve emailed me a picture of a piece James had recently completed.  It is a very interesting and complicated piece to say the least.  Below is James' description of how it was done and a picture.
Steve indicated he would be bringing the turning to our June meeting.  I for one am anxious to see it.

 I bleached the cacti skeleton pcs, then dried them inbetween sheets of paper w weights on top.  Next he turned a piece of scrap log to a similar shape, size, curvature of vessel….moistened cacti skeleton panels and applied paper under and over them with sandbag over it, so they would dry in right shape.   Then he used a dremel to rout 1/16” deep depressions in the piece which is only 1/8” thick.  Coated them with black Gesso, then trimmed the cacti panels to fit, glued them in and laquered the piece.   Buffed spokes by hand.