Story of the Ambrosia Maple Hollow Form
This piece started with Choice Woods in Kentucky, they were selling ambrosia maple, and since there isn’t maple in Colorado, I bought the maple.
I turn a lot of hollow forms because they’re may favorite. This piece has no foot, its a round bottom hollow form. I got in a mood where I wanted to experiemnt. I looked up graphics on ants for about two days, different ants, pictures, drawings, woodburnings, I really had this concept in my head that I wanted to do a piece that would catch your eye and make you want to look down inside the hollow form. The trail of ants comes up inside the vessel , and the top ant pokes down inside the rim, because that makes your eyes follow the line and look down inside. This is something that a lot of woodturners won’t do because they don’t want you to look down inside, if its not finished properly etc.
I wanted to do the opposite, I wanted to make people not only look at the outside but the inside.
What do you guys think about this one? Feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
Details
- 4″x7″ with round bottom
- Sanded to 2000 grit
- Wood-burned ants
- Finished with wipe-on Poly