This piece was made to honor my 6 year old grandson who has muscular distrophy. His parents are putting him on this jurney as he gets progressivly weaker and weaker. It’s a fun journey doing all the things he can experience before the inevitable (baring a cure which is close). So I thought I would build him a make rocketship. As you can see by my bio, I am a wood artist. I have also made a lot of furniture. I like to do thins that noone else doea. I also like to make spheres. Lately as I have delved into the world of the abstract I have incorporated them in a lot of them.They represent a person in this case John Owen. The 15″sphere was turned in halves and glued together . Why? Because my lathe limited me from turning it whole. The 3 legs and the base were also turned , but using a unique machine I have constructed using a Cincinnatti Universal Indexing Head and an  arm from a table saw feeder with a router attatched to the end pictured above. I also used this device to machine out the concave area in the legs. This device is also used to machine fluting and can machine other very interesting things I will post later. The legs were fashioned with the bandsaw and hand planes.The finish on the sphere is Danish Oil and I used enamels  for the colored areas. The holes on the legs and top were done with a small conical dremel bit. It was a labor of love…Enjoy….Ray P.S. The website for “John Owens Adventure” a non profit fund raiser is   joa.org

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