If it's turned wood somebody will want it.

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My family love my first ever turning the most, it is just a practice piece, on which I practiced beads and coves and V-cuts. No special order or purpose. I have to admit that it came out pretty nice for no plan...

Moshe

A few months ago, my wife brought home a 4 pack of these really strange cigarette lighters.... about the length of a cigarette and a bit bigger diameter, supposed to go in the pack so you don't lose it... really dumb lighters, IMO..

As a joke, I wrapped blue ,masking tape around the base of one and stuck it in a little bud vase that I'd just done and put it in the shop near the ashtray that the neighbors use..

Damned if I didn't sell almost a dozen of them before supply overcame demand.. Mac

Snot-tite

It's all in slecting the right title for the "piece". And if a "piece" is part of a "series" or "period" (see Picasso's Blue Period) it become even more sought after - especially a "limited edition series" (I'll only make as many as someone wants to pay for) charlie b

I tend to do this and it seems to attract attention (buyers). For example, if I make three or four pieces I call them 'The Spalted Birch Collection' or the 'Western Cedar Collection'. Oh yes, I'm from the 'west' and so is the cedar!

Tom

Hey charlie b, I like your snot-tite series a lot. Has a sort of runny beauty and vague indefinable mucoid nasal flow to it. Did you design it to fit inside the platinum parallelogram or the golden rectangle? For all you unwashed, that's artiste' talk. You could look it up somewhere.

I'm gonna plagiarize your work c. b. and turn a long spindle beginning with tapered off-sets changing into ogees, changing into tear drops, changing into coves, changing into beads, changing into a sphere at the center, then all reversed toward the other end. No quirks, astragals and ovolos to confuse the masses. I hope my series title, "Metamorphose", hasn't already been taken by some unknown graphic artist. If so, I'll use "change" or "male menopause" as a hot flashy title for the ending of this period. Arrrgh! :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

I think that sort of demand requires the artist to be dead, Charlie... I'll go to certain lengths to sell stuff, but that's a bit much.. *g*

Mac

I think you are all missing the point. the customer is by definition a connoisseur of fine art (ok, the customer is always right) and therefore recognizes the incredibly remarkable piece of fine art that you have produced and also recognizes that it is a bargain at any price.

Brian

Exactly! (we all hope)

Mac