Ryedale Woodturners

Margaret Garrard

Thursday 4 July 2019

Snainton Village Hall

Margaret returned to the club for the first time at our village hall venue - her last visit was in March 2016. She brought along some of her exhibition work, but for the demonstration would concentrate on some decorative techniques involving crackle glaze and texturing.

Bud vase with crackle glaze

Margaret's subject for the night was a bud vase or pot, sutiable for holding a glass tube, decorated using Jo Sonja crackle glaze and texturing.

She started with a block of oak held between centres, and turned it to round.

A hole for the glass pot was drilled using a long auger drill that had come from Margaret's dad. It was the perfect size for the glass tubes that she had found - a little wider than the usual test-tube, to allow a group of flowers to be displayed rather than a single stem.

.A collar was turned at the top end (re-mounted having realised she had missed it!). Some thought and judgement was given to the curves and the depth of the collar, until the balance seemed right.

Masking tape was to be applied, and some experimenting with angled lines was chosen for this pot. Other examples are shown below. Margaret used some very narrow masking tape or margin tape, available from Graphic Air. The blue one was slightly stretchy, allowing it to curve if desired.

Some base coats of Jo Sonja acrylic paints were applied, quite roughly with the brush strokes in many different directions, to aid the crackling later. These were dried with a hairdryer - normally they would have been left for a couple of hours.