(23-03-2011, 01:56 PM)60 oldjohn Wrote: Having handled some of these items, The bowls are paper thin it must be so easy to sand a little too much and make a hole. I hope you can find time to take a photo of the container with the top and matching distinctive black grain. John.
You only see the ones that succeed of course!
As to the 'container' I think you mean the little laburnum lidded box jobby John. In woodturing parlence, anything which has a lid is called a 'lidded box' even though cylindrical in shape. As an aside, what we'd called a tin (ie, tin of peas or beans) in French is called a 'box'. (boite). Confusingly, the same term applies to describe a box (eg boite aux lettres - letter box). It's also a slang term for a night club, or as in English a TV ('what's on the box tonight?')
Sorry to ramlbe off on a frolic into French!
I've attached a couple of pics of the 'container' I think you mean. It's 3" diam and 3.5" tall made from a piece of laburnum branchwood, where the contrast of the darker heartwood and lighter sapwood can be seen.
I've attached some other pics - one of a small sycamore bowl made from a log I rescued from my son's woodpile for his woodburning stove. The other is a segmented lidded box about 5" diam, made from segments of scrap timber offcuts, accurately cut and glued together, then turned.
As an old fogey, having grown up through the austere 1940s and 50s, when the mottos were 'waste not want not', and 'make do and mend', I find myself increasingly at odds with a materialistic society in which people seem to know the price of everything yet the value of nothing. Hence, I get a lot of enjoyment from using bits and bobs of timber that would otherwise go into skips, or up in smoke, or ground up felled trees to make so called 'forest bark'.
Hope these additional pics are of interest.
(I promise to post some stuff about vintage radio soon! Maybe some of my home-brew test gear efforts over the years).
David
