A bit of Yew

[Chas Jones]

Yew, 125mm high X 80mm wide.
Cellulose sanding sealer, Buffed & Microcrystalline wax.

 

[Jay Caughron]

WOW That is nice Chas

 

[Paul Douglass]

Beautiful wood... beautiful turning...

 

[David Johnson]

That is a beautiful turning. Great grain . Really fits the bowl.
David

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Cool, nice reflection of forms in the lid. That worked out really well!

 

[Dave Hoskins]

I do like yew wood. Wish I had it around here. Good looking jar.

 

[Jonathan Shively]

That is superb Chas!!! The two close lines mimicked by the two lines farther apart on the lid really add a touch of class to it. The very top of your finial/lid is spot on. I usually try for a point and it seldom works out and just never seem to achieve the arch you have on yours. Wonderful !!!!!!!!!

 

[Chuck Ellis]

Chas, you're as bad as Hoskins, you keep raising the bar... how are us poor plebes ever gonna catch up....

Love the lidded box. Yew is a pretty wood.

 

[Chas Jones]

Thanks for the comments folks,

Chas, ..... how are us poor plebes ever gonna catch up....

Just keep spinning bits of wood, the forms are all in there somewhere, sooner or later serendipity will out and produce something that looks OK.

After 16+ years of getting it wrong you learn which mistakes not to show to the world.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

the forms are all in there somewhere

Simply take the wood and remove everything that's not the shape you wanted.. Soooo easy

I think one of the things you've figured out to at least some extent that a lot of us (or maybe just me.. I dunno) find tricky is actually being able to see/know the shape in some fashion. At the very least you've managed to figure out how to end up with forms that are coherent in form and have that emerge from the form.