The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Pine Plumber's Plate Project

To find something to use in keeping this blog going TWW decided to mount a Menard's 1" x 12" board back on the lathe.  This was the same board with a second board glued to the back to mount it to the lathe without having screw holes in the finished product TWW first mounted  in March when the board caught the chisel and overstressed the lathe and the lathe was out of commission for 6 weeks.  And outside expert warned TWW that the glue block did not need to be so big but as TWW Sr. told TWW (yes he is a junior) when he was little  "you always have to learn things the hard way".   

TWW got this first beautiful pine plate almost done but when he was trying to pry the glue block off of the plate the plate transformed into a plumber's plate.  Hopefully, a little glue will hide the mistake.   And once again TWW cautions people to never buy something they see on the Internet. 




1 comment:

m said...

Think of the positive....It could premier as part of the new Marly-line! (yeah, royalities for marly-though I don't suppose she could retire on them as a quarter just isnt' going to go very far!)

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