Walnut and oak with Osage Orange and Padauk accents

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    The construction is top notch, but I have to, unfortunately, agree with others that the color choices aren’t my cup of tea. That being said, color choice is all subjective, you can be proud of what you made!

      • ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip
        17·
        2 days ago

        I don’t actually hate it. I love it because it’s difficult thing to make, you had the courage to share it, and you asked me why.

        I don’t like how the accents have little contrast. And, the waves are irregular but don’t seem to follow a natural edge. It doesn’t “speak” to me in a way I can easily understand.

          • ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip
            2·
            11 hours ago

            I’d say I’m an artist. But, not in a traditional sense. I see that many others said about what I said. And, I don’t want you be discouraged.

            When I’m creating something it’s rarely very original. Others have already figured out how to “speak” to others with their art. My art is usually a copy of another’s idea that I’d tweaked. Or it’s an amalgamation of several ideas that I thought would work well together.

            But, sometimes the point of creation isn’t to speak to others. Or, perhaps I’m not saying what they’d like to hear. I think this is what’s happened here. No one faults your workmanship. They’re just recognizing that you weren’t thinking about them when you created it while also finding no fault with that choice.

            I encourage you to create and share again. This time, make a very conscious choice of who is your audience. Attach no guilt to a hypothetical choice to speak a language very few will understand.

            • Marafon@sh.itjust.worksOP
              2·
              10 hours ago

              I really appreciate you taking the time to come back and make sure I wasn’t discouraged by the feedback that I received. I’m not discouraged in the slightest, if anything I agree with most of what has been said. I didn’t intend to go into the design choices behind this board at all but originally it was just going to be the groovy walnut and oak board with Padauk separating them. However this piece was meant to speak to one person, as you say, and the Osage Orange became the crux of the design, despite being my most limited material on hand.

              The clients dad passed away a few months ago and he apparently made knives while he was alive and had some short logs of Osage Orange he intended to use for that purpose. Well time comes for us all and since I didn’t have a good relationship with my bio dad I made an extra effort to make this board special for the client who was close to his dad. The longest straight piece I could get was about 12 inches which isn’t long enough for a cutting board, hence the stopped cuts terminating in a Padauk plug. When viewed horizontally the Osage accents look like a timeline with overlap, hopefully conveying a sense of “carry on” to the client. If I had my druthers I’d have had longer pieces of Osage and use those instead of the Padauk to separate the main boards.

              Thanks again for the feedback! I will post more soon, I really appreciate the feedback. And it’s the critical feedback that helps the most.

              • ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip
                2·
                10 hours ago

                I read this then looked at it again. Now I kinda like it. The choices make much more sense. I’ve never experienced such a rapid shift in aesthetic preferences before. I don’t know what else to say except, Thank You.

  • sploosh@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 days ago

    Well executed, but the wood choices and contrasts in shape are a bit much for my tastes. I feel like the curves and the Osage bits fight each other, and that yellow tones in the oak fight those in the Osage.

    You certainly seem to know what you’re doing, those curves are very nice and the veneer technique looks nice and clean.

  • subtext@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    As someone with no knowledge of woodwork, how do you even do this? Do you glue the pieces together? How do you make the different woods line up so perfectly?

  • wjrii@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    Purty.

    Also, RIP your tools. Jesus. processing some rough-cut Pecan (related to hickory) about drove me batty, and bois d’arc is even harder.

    • Marafon@sh.itjust.worksOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      Never heard it’s French name before but when I first worked this species it was turning a couple end grain bowls and boy howdy, you ain’t kidding. Had to sharpen the bowl gouge 3 times to finish both bowls and I about gave up on the last one.