64" x 36" diam
Box Elder - Poplar
Photo: Arla Heiser
This is for my grandson John Owen Dumm who is almost 7 and he has muscular distrophy. For the rest of his life (hopefully a cure will come soon) his parents have decided to give him a lifetime of fun and adventure. So the piece is my way of showing this with a space rocket. I started by making the sphere which I turned in halves. My lathe is just an old school lathe with a 6" swing believe it or not but the throat alows me to do 16" diameters. The legs of course were acrved and the table and arms were done on my special machine pictured amoung my photos. I had a great deal of fun with this piece because it was so chalnging especially working out logistics for the limited size of my lathe. I guess it was an adventure for me as well.
