This is a very nice first attempt at basket illusion turning. You produced a very nice pattern. Having only three colors (red blue and natural) is a plus. More colors would make the pattern too busy. As others have commented, skip the pencil marking and go directly to the burning pen for the cross lines. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Great job there Sam! Doug inspired me when with us in Worland. I've done a lot of bowls, plates and platters since and have found it gets easier as you do more. I use the double end Blick pens, and the brush helps get the valleys colored nicely. I use Ron Browns indexing wheel that was given to me by a really great friend. Not as fancy as that one but it works very well. You may find that the challenge is habit forming! Thanks for another great video. Take care, Dave
Hey Sam, Beautiful bowl. Interesting idea and technique. I took a look at Doug's website and he does some amazing things. I would not call this a basket illusion though. I would call it more of a designer bowl, as in going way beyond what happens in most bowls. To me a basket illusion needs to show the weave and that would be near impossible to do. I can see there is a tremendous amount of work and detail in these designer bowls. What you did here is awesome and from looking at Doug's site it is clear how time consuming these are to make. It is a wonderful idea and I am very impressed by your "designer bowl". Yall have a wonderful day.
Great 1st illusion platter! One trick I found for reaching pen deep into bead is to take a small piece of aluminum foil, ( couple inches) fold in half and insert the fold to the bottom between beads. Then take fine tip marker and press into space. Contact one side on foil and other on bead. It keeps ink off the bead you want clean, and speeds the time needed to cleanly mark deep between beads. I also modified pyro tip to have curve to match bead. Then roll from one side to other to make clean burns all the way in between beads and not just on top.
I have one of Trent Bosch's carving fixtures ... with it in the banjo, I can sit at the lathe on a tall stool and do the woodburning. A lot easier than doing it in my lap.
Sam, why don’t you make a holder for you Razortip pen and use it on the platform instead of the pencil and just burn in the bead lines, this would save a lot of time. A lot of work and I think any time saver would be helpful. Cheers, Tom
Another great explanation and demonstration Sam,always a good watch👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎
Wow. Hats off to you for your patience. Very cool looking.
Thanks for another informative video Sam 🤠
Love the bowl and the design. This is something that I have not yet tried...maybe in the near future.
Nice bowl Sam, great idea and something I have not attempted. Always appreciate your teaching and inspiration. Stay well.
Thanks for a. great video I look forward them
Thanks a lot Dam. This may just something that I will have to try.
Very nice, I still haven't started my first one... Alas.
This is a very nice first attempt at basket illusion turning. You produced a very nice pattern. Having only three colors (red blue and natural) is a plus. More colors would make the pattern too busy. As others have commented, skip the pencil marking and go directly to the burning pen for the cross lines. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Glenn
Yes I did see Carl Jacobson using this technique. I think it's something to explore in the future and would be a timesaver. Thanks, Sam.
Great job there Sam! Doug inspired me when with us in Worland. I've done a lot of bowls, plates and platters since and have found it gets easier as you do more. I use the double end Blick pens, and the brush helps get the valleys colored nicely. I use Ron Browns indexing wheel that was given to me by a really great friend. Not as fancy as that one but it works very well. You may find that the challenge is habit forming! Thanks for another great video.
Take care, Dave
Sounds great! Sam
Hey Sam, Beautiful bowl. Interesting idea and technique. I took a look at Doug's website and he does some amazing things. I would not call this a basket illusion though. I would call it more of a designer bowl, as in going way beyond what happens in most bowls. To me a basket illusion needs to show the weave and that would be near impossible to do. I can see there is a tremendous amount of work and detail in these designer bowls. What you did here is awesome and from looking at Doug's site it is clear how time consuming these are to make. It is a wonderful idea and I am very impressed by your "designer bowl". Yall have a wonderful day.
Absolutely, I think you're right I didn't really think about what a basket illusion piece should be. But thanks, Sam.
Thanks, Sam!
Great 1st illusion platter! One trick I found for reaching pen deep into bead is to take a small piece of aluminum foil, ( couple inches) fold in half and insert the fold to the bottom between beads. Then take fine tip marker and press into space. Contact one side on foil and other on bead. It keeps ink off the bead you want clean, and speeds the time needed to cleanly mark deep between beads. I also modified pyro tip to have curve to match bead. Then roll from one side to other to make clean burns all the way in between beads and not just on top.
Greg, that's a great idea with the aluminum foil. I can see there's a lot I need to learn about basket illusions. Thanks, Sam
I have one of Trent Bosch's carving fixtures ... with it in the banjo, I can sit at the lathe on a tall stool and do the woodburning. A lot easier than doing it in my lap.
Sam Why couldn’t you your burner instead of the pencil? I hope to try this one day myself.
Billy, yeah, this is something I might try in the future. Thanks, Sam.
Carl Jacobson does the pyrography on the lathe not using a pencil
used 5 min epoxy on waist block did not wait long enough for glued to dry vase bowl came off, now have a sore nuckle.
Ralph, yeah the five minute epoxy should really do the job. Sorry it came off Sam.
Sam, why don’t you make a holder for you Razortip pen and use it on the platform instead of the pencil and just burn in the bead lines, this would save a lot of time. A lot of work and I think any time saver would be helpful. Cheers, Tom
Tom.
Yes, I got this idea from a number of viewers something to look into in the future. Thanks, Sam
Very neat, but that looks way too tedious for me to try. 6 X 144 little bricks to color. I think I’d go crazy.
I totally agree, this is really tedious. Not sure if I can do a 12 inch platter on both sides. Yikes. 😬