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Christmas Ornament
Allen Alexopulos

Christmas Ornament

I enrolled in a turning course taught by Bob Rosand at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts last week. This course was sponsored by the Chesapeake Woodturners.

Bob focused on turning small objects that require alot more finesse than anything that I had ever attempted. I turned this proto-ornament during the class. The globe is hollow and the icicle and cap were partly turned using Bob's famous small round skews.

Bob has a number of articles on his website (www.rrosand.com) that describe the tools and techniques that he uses to do this type of turning. Susan Rosand often paints holiday landscape scenes on Bob's ornamets. Their work is truly phenomenal!

Globe: Cherry
Icicle & cap: walnut

Length: 6 1/2"
Diameter of Globe: 2 1/4"
Narrowest Diameter @ bottom of 3rd droplet: 3/64" (.05")
Nice job on the icecicle. That's really the hardest part to make well, and you really nailed the proportions on this one.
 
I totally agree with these two ladies, you do extremely nice work. Superb icicle.

I believe we may not be too far away from each other geographically - I'm in Baltimore. Need to visit you Chesapeake turner folks!
 

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