Fibonacci Maple

I started this soon after attending a demo of Michael Kehs at the Hartford AAW symposium. It has taken a back seat on the bench for a while, but finally completed. I did it for practice to see if I could do a "leaf piece". It was an experience and I learned a lot, but involves a LOT of sanding. Wish I'd picked a better piece of wood and hollowed it more carefully, but it was only practice.

Sugar Maple (bleached to get some ugly brown streaks out)
Kryon
6" H x 9"D

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Michael Foster

Registered: December 2011
Posts: 21

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Date: Tue January 24, 2012
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Keywords: fibonacci maple

Comments

GARY BRICKER

Michael,Great looking piece.Really like how the bottom is finished out.Thanks for sharing.

#1 Tue January 24, 2012 3:54am

Don Leydens

Don Leydens

Outstanding piece, Michael! I'm still trying to wrap my head around how this was done. Care to share any details? VERY well done.

Don L.

#2 Wed January 25, 2012 2:10pm

Michael Foster

Thanks guys. Don there is no real mystery here. I turned the HF to about 3/8-1/2" thick to allow for the carving. I then laid out the fibonacci spirals (check out my article on how I do this for more http://breezyhillturning.com/resources/SpiralLayout.pdf) . This layout provided intersections where I centered a leaf to fit. The leaves were all patterns taken from actual leaves from my woods traced onto thin plastic which can be used over and over (the wood was from my woods as well). Once layer out. It was all carving. Many of the leaves have deep undercuts, which proved to be the more time consuming areas to detail and sand. I may do something similar in the future, but right now I have a bunch of other ideas and have a couple of my more math related pieces in the works.

Mike

#3 Wed January 25, 2012 11:18pm

Don Leydens

Don Leydens

Thanks Michael! Those undercuts are really amazing.

Don L.

#4 Thu January 26, 2012 12:14pm

Mike Baber

After seeing this, I am ashamed to post any of my stuff, practice huh, can't wait to see what you call finished. Beautiful piece! Thumbs Up!

Wizzy

#5 Wed February 8, 2012 6:04am

Larry Matchett

Nice. Gallery quality work.

#6 Sun February 12, 2012 5:46am