Sunday, November 3, 2019

Design Oppurtunity

I know it has happened to me on more than one occasion.  You are turning along shavings coming off in beautifully curled shavings and after stopping the the spinning piece of finely figured wood you realize you should have stopped cutting a few cuts sooner.  Oh well an opportunity to create a "different" design than the intended one.

In the case of a bowl though, if you take one cut too many in the bottom a bowl can become a funnel.
This morning my wife Gloria and I were in an Orange Beach AL coffee shop/gift shop, and on the wall for sale were bowls that the turner appeared to make into funnels intentionally.   (If I made them that would have been my story..." I meant to do that" ).  This turner filled the hole on the bottom of the bowls with a round mirror.

Pictures below.