Coffee grounds & egg shells

[Noel Johnson]

Does anyone remember an article some years back in American Woodturner about a female Israeli artist using coffee grounds and egg shells to make and turn bowls? I have searched and can't find the issue or article.

 

[Rick Moreton]

Esther Bar, October 2019.

Google is better than the AAW search but can still get mixed results. With below search I was able to find it but with some slightly different terms the article didn't show up.

"coffee grounds epoxy site:woodturner.org"

 

[Noel Johnson]

Thank you!

 

[John K Jordan]

Just for fun, here's a bowl in progress someone I knew made by adding a variety of egg shell pieces to wood. Beautiful!

I think he did drink some coffee that day.



I also met a guy who made Christmas Ornaments by attaching wooden pieces to hollow egg shells.

JKJ

 

[Byron Patterson]

Janice Levi does egg shell. In June she was in St Paul before the symposium and was our monthly demonstrator.

 

[Tom Gall]

Just for fun, here's a bowl in progress someone I knew made by adding a variety of egg shell pieces to wood. Beautiful!

I think he did drink some coffee that day.

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I also met a guy who made Christmas Ornaments by attaching wooden pieces to hollow egg shells.

JKJ

John, that is an attractive piece ... but are you sure those are eggshells? The pieces look too large & flat. All shell pieces have a curvature that break into many small pieces when pressed onto the glued surface. If pressed into another adhesive (i.e., spackle) a slight curvature can be maintained - also very attractive.

The platter (2003-?) in my avatar contains some eggshell surface. Shells embedded in some spackle which had some blue colorant (acrylic paint?) mixed in.

Some eggshell ornaments (2015 & 2016).

 

[John K Jordan]

John, that is an attractive piece ... but are you sure those are eggshells? The pieces look too large & flat.

Yes, I took egg shells of different colors (I raise chickens, guinea, peacock) and feathers. One guy brought colored acrylic. Another brought brass wire. One guy brought some logs We had a good time!

That bowl was not mine, but our task for that session was to turn a small bowl and embellish at least the rim in some way. Mine was 6" in dia with an embellished 1.25" rim, so perhaps that one was similar. I can't remember if the size was suggested. But the shells were broken into small pieces which at which size they are "fairly" but not completely flat - I can see maybe a half-dozen that were probably cracked when pressed into the glue in the shallow recess. I don't remember if he used any of the peacock egg shells but they are MUCH larger than chicken eggs and would have relatively less curvature.

He also sanded the surface which may have made some a little flatter. You can see interesting sanded patches on some of the darker shells.

I like his arrangement and like the way he filled in the space between the shells with some medium, again, can't remember what. I took the picture with intentions of doing something similar but haven't yet. Maybe someday.

This, BTW, was a class with John Jordan (the other John, the famous one) and Clay Foster. Almost an overload of creativity! From shaping metal to hollow forms to milk paint.



And every day, Clay read a passage from the book "My Grandfather's Blessings".
When I got home I ordered a copy.

I made this one day towards the end of the week, Afican Blackwood, Dogwood, Cherry, coke from the blacksmith shop for a "knob" on the lid.
The guy with the spool of brass wire gave me some.


JKJ