Vases using hundreds of pencils

[trungdok]

Quite cool.

http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/tuom...eds-of-pencils

[leehljp]

Wow, no easy feat in turning items with pencil lead or with lead/tin/solder. Sandpaper only smudges it terribly. But for a skilled and experienced turner, that can be overcome with soft touch and a very sharp scraper chisel.

[LCHIEN]

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[trungdok]

Wow, no easy feat in turning items with pencil lead or with lead/tin/solder. Sandpaper only smudges it terribly. But for a skilled and experienced turner, that can be overcome with soft touch and a very sharp scraper chisel.

Good point about smudging... I didn't think of that. That just made the vases even more awesome.

[BigguyZ]

Wow, no easy feat in turning items with pencil lead or with lead/tin/solder. Sandpaper only smudges it terribly. But for a skilled and experienced turner, that can be overcome with soft touch and a very sharp scraper chisel.

Yeah, but I don't consider this "turning" as you or I would do. It's mechanized. The cutter is controlled via computer and is itself a rotating cutterhead. So to me, this is a cool idea, but it's not something that's hand crafted when it's actually created/ cut. So maybe it's silly, but I'd say it's a more manufactured art peice.

It's still cool, and a neat idea, but not what I initially thought it was.

[gerti]

Reminds me of a turned piece I saw in an exhibition once, somewhat similar to the one in this article:

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_art...manchester_nh/

Branches, black epoxy. Cool!