This is a base for a chair I’m trying to have finished by the end of the week

Been one of the few times lately that I’ve really felt that an internal part of the piece has a lot of potential on it’s own. 

That’s all.

Cheers,

Paul 

I really didn’t have anything to post. My mind was  a blank. I’m getting to the end of my time for getting things finished by the 18th. I just started the last part of the last piece that I’m going to do for the show. That makes three pieces that are in progress that will need to be done in less then 3 weeks. 

One of the things that I dread when working with wood is the waste. As I was plunging this bit into this thick piece of mahogany, it bothered me that the wood I was removing was just going to go in the waste can. I was thinking how beautiful the color is when the wood is freshly cut. I was thinking how that this 2 inch slug of wood, that had been attached to the tree and had been curing for the last 40, 50, sixty years, was finally coming to it’s end by being removed to be thrown into the waste. So I decided to document it’s end for posterity.

I just wish I was a little more creative and could figure out what to do with those little curls of this incredible material.

The first was an armature (see category: “Hidden Art”) for an as of yet unfinished chair. The following is a part that will support Mrs. Wonky’s new seat. Someone might turn the stool over to see the underside, but most won’t. Here’s Mrs. Wonky’s underside seat support:

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Sometimes the art isn’t just in the finished piece but also in the parts that it takes to make the piece. This stainless armature is one of those things that will never be seen in the finished object. Too bad because it’s kinda cool by itself. So here it is; to live in someones conciousness if for a only a little while.