White Oak Plate Two

[Bruce L Jones]

Well while I had my idea fresh in my head I threw a blank of the high figured White Oak on the old HF CM Lathe; this time I was shooting for a flatter plate w/ out the foot. I glued a scrap piece to the back side for the chucks jaws to have a good hold on this piece w/ it's heavy wild grain, and this is what I came up with 10.5" D was as big as I could get from this board.

Bruce

 

[Tom Cadwalader]

Form ?

Is it just the camera angle or is the rim lower than the raised part 1/3 of the way in from the outside? Also wondering what the finish is. The figure sure is nice.

 

[Bruce L Jones]

Is it just the camera angle or is the rim lower than the raised part 1/3 of the way in from the outside? Also wondering what the finish is. The figure sure is nice.

Tom it's an optical illusion the outer rim is the same as the inner rim; the finish is just Tung Oil so far I'll add some Carnauba Trewax and buff when the oil dries.

Bruce

 

[Bill Boehme]

Odd camera and lighting angles

I think that a better camera angle and lighting set up would work better in photographing the piece. Also, the black background and slightly underexposed image is making it a bit hard to visualize the shape and depth of the platter. It's kind of like looking at an image of the moon where it is oriented so that the poles aren't arranged in what our brains perceive as up and down. That can causes craters to look like bumps if you stare at the image long enough because the direction of the light source fools our brains.



The image was rotated 90° so that lunar north is to the right instead of being up.

I would shoot for a mid gray foreground fading to near black in the distant background. Below is an example where the near background is light enough that there is a feeling of the piece being sitting on a flat level surface while the fading background slight shadow help to give a feeling of depth. I think that the black background while removing distractions has gone too far which leaves the piece with a sense of "floating" in empty space with nothing to give it a sense of perspective or up/down direction.

 

[John Torchick]

Nice plate! I like how the grain is prominent. What did you finish it with? I have been prejudiced that we need to turn with maple, walnut, etc. and oak is just fit for the fireplace. Thanks for the pictures!

 

[Bruce L Jones]

Nice plate! I like how the grain is prominent. What did you finish it with? I have been prejudiced that we need to turn with maple, walnut, etc. and oak is just fit for the fireplace. Thanks for the pictures!

Thank you John I really like this white Oak and I'm always looking for something different to turn w/ I've done Teak also and have a good supply of that too. This finish so far is just Tung Oil and I'll be adding several hand rubbed coats of Carnauba Trewax; these are food safe, but I don't think more than bread or cookies will be put on this plate.

Bruce