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Atlantis Art
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Custom Furniture and Woodworking
Brent Baker -- Corvallis, Oregon
bsquared@peak.org
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Turnings
Lathe turning is my first love in woodworking. I still have the first
bowl I turned. Although turning wood on a lathe is only a century or two old, the potters
wheel has been used for millennia to create circular forms. When I visit a good art museum
I make it point to study the ceramics of the ancient Greeks. The shapes they worked out
are centuries ago still some of the most beautiful.
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| bubinga -- 16 inch diameter These large plates
are fairly simple to turn. The trick is in finding a block with really great grain
that loans itself to this type of piece. |
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| desert ironwood and zebrawood, 3 inch diameter,
9 tall Desert Ironwood is a small tree that grows in the Southwest
and Northern Mexico. The wood is extremely hard, but only available
in small pieces. Much it is used for carvings for the tourist
trade in Mexico. The wood is always split and cracked
and appears tortured and wracked with pain. |
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| lignum vitae -- 3 inch diameter, 9 tall
In Latin lignum vitae means wood of life. In medieval times drinking from
glasses made of this wood was thought to have restorative powers.
The wood is extremely hard, and contains a lot of natural wax.
I put no finish on this vase. When I was done sanding, I buffed
it and the wax within the wood became the finish. |
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| muesibatiba, yellowheart -- 9 inch diameter, 4.5
tall I turned this in 2002, but I always thought the
shape was a real loser. In 2004 I remounted it, altered the shape,
and added the yellowheart. Now I rather like it. |
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| stripped ebony -- 2.75 inch diameter, 6 tall
This the first of 5 pairs of wine glasses I've made.
Wine glasses are a love hate affair. Making the first one is fun,
turning the second one to exactly match the first is a pain. But
they are fun to drink from. |
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| tulipwood -- 4.25 inch diameter, 2.25 tall
Tulipwood is quite expensive, and large pieces are rarely available. The
smell of shavings and sawdust is extremely sweet, like a strong perfume. |
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| walnut, maple burl -- 11 inch diameter, 9 tall
The walnut came from the main fork of a tree some friends cut
down in their back yard. If you know what to look for, you can
see the center of each fork above and below
the maple burl insert in the 3rd photo. |
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