| I was messing around one afternoon with a new skill/technique I had discovered (new for me at least), and through a few *erm* Deviations on the design, came this piece. |
| What can I say? all you see here are mine, and all that's mine could end up here (it had better not appear anywhere else...) |
| I don't like anything that's made the ' Popular' page before I see it, anything I don't understand the context of, nor anything so far beneath the level of hobbyist that it is an insult to the artist. That said, it should be understandable that I also prefer to list things that reflect my own interests. Enjoy. |
| Looking into a particular garage in the Eastern San Fransisco Bay area, one might see a dark haired young man of eighteen bent over either a green ten speed woodworking lathe, or a variable speed gray minilathe to the side with chips of different colored woods flying in every way around him. He is totally entrapped in his work, tuning out all other life until a car rumbles by. He wears loosely fitting but not baggy clothes, a pair of black and orange gardening gloves and half-rimmed blue framed rectangular glasses, habitually covered in dust. On one side of the garage, an old analog radio plays music from the upper shelf of a long tool-covered workbench, the other side filled with storage cabinets and raw wood. When the lathe does stop spinning, one might see any number of different combinations of wood in a half-completed bowl, pen, or an artistically crafted tool or ornament waiting to be finished. That's me, Daniel. I advertise my services as a professional wood turner, specializing in wooden bowls. However, I have been reaching out into different aspects of woodworking, like carving. About 5/6ths of what I make there actually ends up here in an untimely manner in the form of a photo, the rest are mostly tools or household projects. I would also recommend strongly that learners don't use me as an example of safety in the workshop, as some of what I do (like the gloves) is potentially hazardous, which on a wood lathe, can turn (pun intended) very bad, very fast. One'll also note that not all of my stuff are wooden. I will always be trying to learn and perfect the art of fantasy drawing and poetry, hence the genesis for my name. Perhaps I'm also way too honest... |
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*remember to live life to the fullest and without regret for the joy of life is that it ends*
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In life there are challenges, first a lot of bark(ing), then a lot of pith, followed by work, all to be turned about into something to be proud of, or thrown into the fireplace.
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*remember to live life to the fullest and without regret for the joy of life is that it ends*
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For I still consider myself to be but a journey man in my craft, and but a hobbyist in all other arts that I may try.
I would say the same to you about your work, but it seems I just did.
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In life there are challenges, first a lot of bark(ing), then a lot of pith, followed by work, all to be turned about into something to be proud of, or thrown into the fireplace.
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