Sphaeroblasts ranging in size. The penny gives you an idea of size. some in the top right hand corner are still covered in bark.there are a number which have been threaded onto a leather thong post drilling and show the sphaeroblast as rustic wooden beads.
Most of the sphaeroblasts here are beech. the range in colour are due to age differences; the lighter ones have recently been harvested. none of them have been finished with oil,varnish or wax.
Here are a number of carved sphaeroblasts finished with varnish.
As this photos shows slightly larger sphaeroblasts can be made into a key ring or pendant. the top two here are finished with lacquer
BookmarkThe carved sphaeroblasts are attached to a leather thong and varnished.
I didn't get chance to get out this weekend to get photos of the sphaeroblast still on the tree. perhaps next weekend. I did however get a sycamore branch from my father in law and have started a new woodwose.
3 comments:
Hi Dave, just wanted to pop by and say hello and also say how much I love your sphaeroblasts ( even though I haven't got a clue how to pronouce that word lol, especially the wizard looking one carved in a stick.
Sphaerotastic! these are cool, the keyrings look so tactile, you would never lose your keys because you would never let go!
The sphaeroblasts are great! They remind me of Netsukes
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