pictures of some recent work

For those that can't access ABPW.. here's a link to a facebook photo album, the last 9 pictures are recent projects:

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you don't need to join facebook to view these.. mac

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 9:55:18 -0600, mac davis wrote (in message ):

tom koehler

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Mac,your work is relly amazing.Your mystery burl looks very similar to a something I made out of spruce burl. Kevin "tom koehler" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@news.frontiernet.net...

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Very nice. Are the goblets functional?

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Thank you, Tom.. I don't really use a finish, unless it's a soft wood like pine or redwood.. Hardwood gets sanded on the lathe and buffed with the Bealle System, softwoods get wet sanded with Natural Danish oil and then buffed..

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I knew what kind of tree it came from at one time, but senior memory has lost it.. A friend brought it from the states, where it had hung on the back fence of a fire department for years.. I hung it on a ceiling hook in the shop for over a year, changing hanging points once in a while, until I figured out how it could fit on the lathe.. It had 3 branches sticking out of it and was covered by a thin membrane of bark..

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Thank you.. I would guess that they are, if you didn't put them in a dishwasher.. They're cocobolo, buffed with carnauba wax.. Should be food safe.. They were a commission from a winery.. 3 goblets about 11" tall, as close to identical as possible.. Did I mention that I don't do commissions anymore? ;)

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 2:58:40 -0600, mac davis wrote (in message ):

I do stuff that pleases me, and then if someone else wants it, okay then. My personal experience with commissions is that if you agree to make a specific thing for someone else, the thing that was formerly pleasurable now becomes a job on a deadline and no longer pleasurable.

It would be a different thing, to do woodturning for someone else as a job, but then there has to be some kind of mental shift of gears so that you could do it without beating yourself up, mentally, about what the finished products look like (compared to what you'd like to be able to produce with a bit more time).

There are many in this forum who are full-time turners. You earn your daily bread doing this. Is there some kind of disconnect, some way of separating the lathe work that is done quickly out of necessity for regular income - compared to what is happening internally when you do a personal piece?

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Hey Mac,can you put the pic's on the ABPW site ? I'm on webby & can't even see them on FB.

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2 of my worst commissions were the 3 goblets and legs for a three-legged stool... The first piece is usually fun, but trying to make the other pieces the same is NOT fun.. I find that my style has become so free form that I have trouble making something to order.. An example was a favor for a charity, making a police nightstick for an event.. It took way too long to figure out dimensions, diameters, etc.. BORING...

I'm too used to throwing a chunk of wood on the lathe and seeing what happens..

I lost a bid a few years ago on 200 slimline pens.. I was so relieved that I didn't have to make them!

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I think that probably happens to a lot of us.I've just recently started making some duck and goose calls and I'll be damned if I can make a matching pair.

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