Carved Turning

[Ed Nelson978]

Here's something I just finished. My dad showed me a lidded box he turned a couple weeks ago and I loved the basic shape, but I decided to take it a step further and carve it. It is walnut and the carving is supposed to be walnut branches. I hope you like it!

[Dewey Torres]

Ed I do like it!

Nice work and may I ask how long it took?

[Ed Nelson978]

I rarely keep track of my time on this type of project. I started it about 3 weeks ago and I worked on it a little most days.

[John Fricke]

This is wonderful looking piece. You should post this over in the turners forum, will turn them all with envy.

[Zahid Naqvi]

So how do you keep the background so smooth and at a consistent depth on a curved object like this. On a flat piece I cam imagine a hand held router.

[Ed Nelson978]

So how do you keep the background so smooth and at a consistent depth on a curved object like this. On a flat piece I cam imagine a hand held router.

I used a drill bit with a stop block and drilled a lot of holes all over the background fields. That gave me a reasonably consistent depth for the relief.

[Bill Bolen]

Nice job and clever too with the drill depth stop...Bill...

[Tom Giacomo]

Very nice job. I love it.