This little number is off to the ball… The compassion ball (the launceston one that is)!!!
It’s sporting a fancy new tag (it can’t exactly wear a dress now can it) and is hopefully it will make its way home with its true love (in a most respectable fashion of course)
As i have alluded to before, whipping out the blowtorch is a great way of dealing with cracked stock (or stock that unexpectedly cracks after i turn it). As a bit of a side note, many of the pieces i make crack because they are cut from a single branch (because i like working with timber from scratch and cant handle big tree trunks).
Well lets just say that i went to town with the blowtorch on this one, leaving the inside looking a bit like what i imagine a teeny meteor would do to a tree trunk… :
This one also throws a pretty swanky light up the wall
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Deep as that that title sounds, this is merely a post about me making another light shade. If you have been following along with my work (although I’m not certain how you would, unless you are one of my close friends), you would know that i have been making some lamp shades that feature some burnt… burntness… burning…
without further babbling, here is the time lapse of the thing whole saga:
Some of the journey that you might not have gleaned from the timelapse:
Things were coming along swimmingly, it was roughed out:
and had undergone some charring:
i was just shaping it down when… well…
Needless to say, i was forlorn… but it turns out that some glue and many clamps are sufficient to recover from such an incident… heres the finished piece (i ended up putting it on a different base):
and one last thing… you can buy it on etsy:
For those of you following along at home, you can now buy a few of the bits and pieces that i have made on Etsy…
get a go of it: https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/JamIntheRound
Its perhaps a little understocked at the moment and currently only ships in Australia but hey, its a start…
