Tonight’s meeting was really informative.
One of our members, Don McNiven, gave an interesting presentation on a method of making bowl sculptures. By slicing a bowl into strips and gluing them back together, he has produced some inspiring forms that take bowl making down an interesting road.
He has applied his skills of bowl making and engineering into rather uplifting art forms that are rugged in construction but delicate in appearance. He isn’t afraid to mix media either. Out of necessity and for contrast, he combines wood and bondo (who would have thought?) to get to a place that might otherwise be unachievable with just wood alone.
It really got the mind racing.
Some members brought some really great pieces of wood for the taking. I got a few burrs and a nice big bowl blank. I only hope that I can get it to fit on my lathe. The big lathe still eludes me.
I won a raffle again and got a piece of box elder and a piece of yellow birch. I still deciding what I want to make with all of these great pieces now.
Thanks to Don also for showing me how to grind the new tools. Now I can go wear them out again.
For those that are interested, feel free to send me an e-mail and I can provide some details.