Straight from the workshop

Two pieces straight out of the workshop within the last hour.
Both of these are really just experiments
The little pot with the slots running up and down was finished with copper paint which did dry very shiny but when I put a finish on it went matt in colour as the finish was a satin finish. The outside I used the pyrography machine to apply the texture and then ebonising spray followed by a misting of Golden acrylic interference paint in blue.
The second piece with the ripples was from a tutorial of ripple surface effect by Dennis Gooding on another site his was a random ripple and he got a 50% success rate so I was pretty pleased to have managed to complete this on my first but then I did cheat to get mine to ripple and in a more uniform way

Great stuff Derek. Very well made pieces with a fair bit of work in them. Thanks for showing.

Don W

Liked them all along the path to now, well rewarded work on these Derek, two conversation pieces to be proud of mate.

Peter.

These are delightful!
I really am interested this forum for the pens, not the other stuff...but I looked at your second shown piece and wondered how I could apply it to what I do. That means you inspired somebody with your work!
(I went and found my wife to show her these. That's the biggest compliment I can offer.)
Beautiful work, sir.

Thank you Don and Greg.

Gregory Hardy said:

These are delightful!
I really am interested this forum for the pens, not the other stuff...but I looked at your second shown piece and wondered how I could apply it to what I do. That means you inspired somebody with your work!
(I went and found my wife to show her these. That's the biggest compliment I can offer.)
Beautiful work, sir.

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If you are thinking of doing this on pens it then I think that it may not be suitable as you need a good depth of cut to help with the forming of the fins. Unless you go down the route of cutting the fins as separate pieces and then casting them in resin to hold it all together. Just a thought.

The blue piece really appeals to me.

Sorry Peter forgot to thank you.

Anyway thank you Peter and Terry

Great work Derek, I was just wondering how the second piece was coming along yesterday, while I was battling along with an cantankerous lathe in the shed.