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These are three goblets that I made from a fallen branch from a Cork Oak tree.
I turned these wet. (The branch had only fallen a few weeks before I was given it).
I turned each goblet very thin – 0.2cm which made the grain translucent when light was shone through it.
I’ve included a photo here as the grain was so beautiful.
When a piece of wood is turned wet and thin and then allowed to dry slowly it will usually settle in to
its own unique shape but in doing this they are prone to cracking. Some wood types more than others.
Two of the three pieces also had knots in the area where I was going to turn the stem which would make for a weak spot
in the stem.
One of them – 5G081 bent at it’s knot but did not break.
5G083 broke at it’s knot. I repaired it with a piece of 1.5mm wire, drilled down into the centre of the stem and bonded
it with epoxy resin adhesive.
The goblet and base of 5G081 split on drying and the goblet on 5G082 also split.
I then used the Kintsugi method of repairing them by mixing Inlace Thicken It with epoxy adhesive and then gilding each
repair with 24K gold leaf.
The break and the splits could and some might say should have been the end of each of these pieces but I think the are all
the more beautiful for having been repaired.