Humpty Dumpty sat on my Lathe,
Humpty Dumpty Blew up;
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Because they didn’t have Titebond Glue
The wood is cherry, both the piece and finial. I made a finial from holly with a sphere on top thinking the contrast would be nice. Boy, was that ugly. I also thought of dying finial black, but then decided it would look better matching the chevron pattern. So far only one coat of lacquer, will add some coats. Not painted. I am a terrible painter and you would have seen the cracks. Pyrography. There were really only two cracks that went fully top to bottom. Once put back together these turned into very closed and look almost like grain lines. I did remove the nub before gluing, but left the wall thickness alone. I used walnut to repair the top and base.This was extremely time consuming. I counted the burn marks on a top and bottom of one pedal. There are by my estimate over 95,000 individual burns. The burns hide the cracks. I needed to cover most of the piece. The pattern was drawn by hand with lathe index determining the spacing. I just did this because I wanted to see if it was possible. Since I had so much texture with the pyrography, I didn’t add any to the walnut or finial. Just a different challenge
