Last winter I brought some sticks of fat lighter (lighterd to rednecks)
pine kindling down from Tallahassee and for no reason turned some tacky
(and sticky) beads & coves and a knob on the ends. What a mess on my
skew! A neighbor thought they would be perfect with her expensive
andirons and offered to buy some. She showed no interest in a nice
hollow form I had just made. Go figure.

Once I turned some up scale stylish 'bathroom matches' from kitchen
matches. (For those of you who have never done time in an outhouse,
burning matches or smoking tobacco were the original deodorizers). What
unusual objects have you all turned for no particular reason and lo &
behold somebody prized them?


Turn to Safety, Arch
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Arch wrote:
What
unusual objects have you all turned for no particular reason and lo &
behold somebody prized them?
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

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:18:06 -0400, (Arch) wrote:

Last winter I brought some sticks of fat lighter (lighterd to rednecks)
pine kindling down from Tallahassee and for no reason turned some tacky
(and sticky) beads & coves and a knob on the ends. What a mess on my
skew! A neighbor thought they would be perfect with her expensive
andirons and offered to buy some. She showed no interest in a nice
hollow form I had just made. Go figure.

Once I turned some up scale stylish 'bathroom matches' from kitchen
matches. (For those of you who have never done time in an outhouse,
burning matches or smoking tobacco were the original deodorizers). What
unusual objects have you all turned for no particular reason and lo &
behold somebody prized them?


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter


http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings

Well, like my dad used to say, "there's an ass for every seat".. lol

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

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https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm

Snot-tite

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/.../Turning4.html

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)

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/.../Turning5.html

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

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Snot-tite

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/.../Turning4.html

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)

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/.../Turning5.html

charlie b

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


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On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:55:57 -0700, charlie b wrote:

Snot-tite

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/.../Turning4.html

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)

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/.../Turning5.html

charlie b

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

https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm

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

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:26:19 -0700, "Brian" wrote:

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

https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis
https://home.comcast.net/~mac.davis/wood_stuff.htm