Headed to the Fair

[Blair Swing]

Here is the completed Dark Side of the Moon and taking it this weekend to the Texas State Fair for annual judging.

Completed base was was designed around an undercounter LED light and illuminates through the one large stained glass piece in the bottom the 32 stained glass craters within the vessel, on the Dark Side, so to speak. All together, with 124 pieces in the base, 652 pieces of wood, 33 pieces of glass the LED and a button from one of my old army uniforms that turns on the proximity switch.

Woods used Bubinga, Ebony, Purpleheart, Cherry, Massarundba and various colored veneers make up this concept piece. image.jpegimage.jpeg

[John Grace]

Uh...WOW, great stuff.

[Bruce Wilson]

Don't bother going to the fair. I hereby give you first place.first-place-ribbon.jpg

[robert baccus]

Wow--so many pieces and still have great shape and balance.

[Blair Swing]

4th Time was the charm! Received notice that I was honored this year with my first Blue Ribbon at the Texas State Fair, "Turned Wood, Any" category!

[David Delo]

Congrats to you Blair. Very nice work and well deserved.

[daryl moses]

Congrats!! I had no doubt you would win.
Beautiful piece!!

[Jebediah Eckert]

All in all you are no longer just another brick in the wall!

Congrats, cool piece.

[Ron Stadler]

Inspiration, inspiration, Inspiration. WOW!

[Frederick Skelly]

Best of luck at the fair. Anything capable of beating THAT work would have to be .... well, if there's a better job than yours I'd sure like to see it. Because this is simply phenomenal. (And I'm not even a Pink Floyd fan. )

Please let us know how it goes.
Fred

[Billy Tallant]

Stunning work on that vase! Looks fantastic. Congrats on that blue ribbon!

[Blair Swing]

All in all you are no longer just another brick in the wall!

Congrats, cool piece.

Ah yes, February 1980, went skiing for the first time ever, (actually I believe I went falling more that day) near Winterpark Colorado, snowed in that night at Berthoud Pass and couldn't make it back to Denver, staying one more night in a beautiful A-frame cabin, with a huge window, listening to "The Wall" for the first time, as the snow fell softly by the window.

Music, and all forms of art, can trigger powerful memories, thanks for that one!