Wibble Wobble Lidded Box - with Pendulum Finial

Now that is really cool! No batteries required. Thanks for sharing the inside view also.

Here's a link with photos of this thing for the details.

On Fri, 8 May 2009 23:59:50 -0500, charlieb wrote (in message ):

Very neat item, and thanks for the inside view. With this, and your mini-bot pieces, I think the inside of your head must be a very interesting place. I like it.

tom koehler

Charlie,

I want to add my thanks, congratulations and amazed delight. You have not only produced some very intriguing turned objects with your outstanding turning ability, but also with your exceptionally creative mind. I sincerely believe that you have added a whole new and truly unique facet to woodturning. Your refreshing work has freed static turnings and added motion that is more than gimmick or gadget. IMHO, your signatures are right up there with hollow forms and other signal advances in the art/craft.

Thank you for sharing, please don't leave us as you become widely respected and appreciated outside our friendly confines. It has been a pleasure to watch you add innovative thinking and fine turning to your already accomplished flat work.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Am considering submitting an article on fairly easy ways to add actual motion to turnings using fine piano wire, simple to do ball and socket/swivel joints and maybe the use of micro-bots that are finally becoming available, and affordable - if not downright inexpensive. I've got line drawing illustrations, photos and now videos of examples.

There's a fine line between "creative" and "crazy" and some of the ideas I've got floating around in the back of my mind may require a touch of insanity to try and make into realities. The Bot Sugar Bowl took over 20 hours of work to pull off.

As for being creative - I'm just getting into this Movement thing. Turns out Peter Rand has been playing with movement for his turnings a lot longer than I have. Check out his stuff

Tom:

There are probably a lot of interesting ideas for your next piece tucked away inside YOUR head too. The trick is to get them out where the conscious part of your brain can work with them. And, despite what a lot of people think (the "I'm just not very creative." people) - you CAN learn how to unlearn how to NOT be creative. Here are a few ways

Charlie,

That is some cool shit! You've got me wanting to make one!! Any pointers? Tips?? Things to watch out for??

Brilliant work by the way! :) `Casper

I'm afraid the old There's Nothing New Under The Sun is true in this case.

I just sort of stumbled onto this Movement Thing, though I have chosen to pursue it a bit more than a saner person might. But several other turners I've become aware of have been incorporating actual movement in some of their turned pieces long before I got onto it - Peter Rand for example, and there's a guy names Robert Whitworth here in the SF Bay Area who developed special tension adjustable ball and socket joints for his poseable "creature" - and even used little needle bearings to allow the head of one to spin - for a LONG time.

I'm just one of a long line of turners, sane or otherwise, who found ways to add actual movement to pieces - and did. I'll take credit for being perhaps a bit more tenacious in pursuing a Wild Hare Idea than others might - tenacious being only a hair's breadth from Bull Headed. And being a Taurus (no, not the Ford product - the astrological sign), I take Bull Headed as a compliment, intended or not.

I like poking into obscure corners and playing with turnings. If I find something others may also find interesting and I can provide some ways for them to try something different, or show that some things that appear difficult or tricky - aren't - and why - that's a bonus.

Thanks - I think.

That's what I'd hoped

This should get you started

Humorous, funny, maybe delightful - yes. Brilliant? Nope.