Ingredients: one large wild olive log
As it is difficult and dangerous to attack a log like that with a bowl gouge
It wastes an inordinate amount of time slowly chipping away at the whirring log so I did some initial shaping with an arbortech (with the log stationary in the lathe!)
Basically shaped the piece with the arbourtech
Starting to turn the base and the 'wings'
Finished the wing, both sides, and cut it through to separate it from the central 'vessel'
Left a small 'saturn' ring around the central 'vessel'
Turning the large 'wing' took serious tool control and expended quite a lot of adrenalin!
The personal tension is inversely proportional to the thickness of the wing
Turned a fairly standard hollow form from the central piece
Inset a pink ivory ring around the opening (see next picture)
I got very adventureous and turned the 'saturn' ring around the middle into a small captive ring
The hollow vessel with its captive ring will be suspended from the main 'wing' by three small loops of thread
You can see the 1mm holes, both in the captive ring and the 'wing', that I have drilled to accomodate the threads
Note the grain match throughout the whole piece - cool hey?
Excuse the picture quality - I just photographed the piece quickly on the coffee table
The 'wing' was ballanced on two of Gigi's little coffee cups!
A close up view
Now we need a lid - something African probably
... and the wing will be set on three tall 'legs' probably in the form of assegaais
We will see how this piece develops!
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