Paperweight.
When middle age arrives, maintaining your health can become more of a struggle--or at least demands more concentration. Sometimes you feel on top of the world, occasionally you fall off but hopefully climb back up again. If your spirit is well grounded, you have a better chance of keeping ahead.
The spiral was done using my eccentric chuck adapter, my own design which bolts onto a standard woodturner's 4-jaw scroll chuck.
I chose Elm for the spiral because of it's interlocking grain, less liable to break.
The base, filled with 2 pounds of lead shot, is Camphorwood.
3 1/2" diameter, 6 1/2" high and finished with Minwax wipe-on poly gloss.
All comments are welcome.
