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At a craft fair i saw these foot and a half, two-foot wooden vases with inlaid frontpieces selling for over three hundred bucks, and then similar items at a fashionable art gallery. so…........... i laminated three pieces of poplar and placed a frontspiece and began to shape. As of today Im still shaping. One day soon it’ll be here. But in the interum, i needed gifts for friends and so i began to work in smaller scale. These became “bud” vases to hold one or two stems and are about 8 inches high. The first is made from succupira wood laminated with a circle of bloodwood, surrounded by canarywood, with iroko sides and walnut top and bottom. the second is a slab of African mahogany with an irridescent center of unknown wood i got in a box of shorts, surrounded by bookmatched American ebony heart and sapwood, with bloodwood and canarywood top and bottom. The last is lacewood surrounded by bloodwood, canarywood and walnut. Anyone got a flower? (please click on images to see the whole item to ascertain the final shape)
-- Dan
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cajunpen
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posted 387 days ago
Dan, they look great, but I’m a bit confused. How are you “shaping” them? Are you using a sanding technique, or what. I really like the laminations AND your choices of wood. I assume that they are a solid block, after laminating, and you are somehow converting them into bud vases? Please explain the technique in a little more detail. Great project though, however you got there :-)).
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MsDebbieP
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posted 387 days ago
gorgeous indeed….
2-foot tall. now that sounds impressive.
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mot
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posted 387 days ago
Interesting. I’ve never seen anything like that before. Thanks for sharing!
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CharlieM1958
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posted 387 days ago
Neat stuff! I wanna see the big ones when you get one finished.
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TreeBones
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posted 387 days ago
Very nice. Someday I’ll get a hold of some imported wood and try my hand at something like this.
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LJ
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posted 387 days ago
Great inlay work. Each one spectacular in its own right. Two foot high on the horizon?! Not for grandma to carry :-)
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jockmike2
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posted 387 days ago
Very unique and beautiful wood. Nice idea to make a bud vase. jockvikee
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oscorner
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posted 387 days ago
$300.00! Man I better start making some. Just think of the tools I could buy. Those are very beautiful, you did a great job.
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