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Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire; built in 1892. Although it was never an aid to navigation, the faux lighthouse is a well known landmark locally.
I love you, Berwyn car spindle.
artist: Dustin Shuler;
patron: David Bermant
destroyed on May 2, 2008
The spindles, genus Euonymus, comprise about 170–180 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs and small trees. They live mostly in East Asia, including the Himalayas, and they also have a distribution in Europe, Asia, Australasia, North America and Madagascar.
The flowers are situated in small groups, inconspicuous and of green or yellow shades. The leaves are opposite (rarely alternate) and simple ovoid, typically 2–15 cm long, and usually with a finely serrated margin.
The fruit is a pink-red four- or five-valved pod-like berry, which splits open to reveal the fleshy-coated orange seeds. The seeds are eaten by frugivorous birds, which digest the fleshy seed coat and disperse the seeds in their droppings. All parts of the plants are poisonous to humans if eaten.
The wood was traditionally used for the making of spindles for spinning wool; this use is the origin of the English name of the shrubs.
Spindles are popular garden shrubs, grown for their foliage, the deciduous species often exhibiting very bright red fall colours, and also for the decorative berries.
Walnut and tiger maple are the woods chosen by Dave for this beautiful spindle. He has used pyrography (burn etching) to adorn the notched 2 1/2 inch walnut whorl with his signature leaf motif. The overall length of the tiger maple shaft, including the brass hook, is 10 inches and the weight is 1.1 ounce.
This famous landmark in a Berwyn, Illinois parking lot is in danger of being torn down. Two activists stood below it while we snapped this photo, yelling "Save the Spindle!" over and over...
photoshopped physiogram
experimentation with light and slow shutter speeds.
Done by spinning a small light source while leaving the shutter open for a while.
Top whorl drop spindles crafted by Dave Stanbrough.
From left to right:
*Walnut and Birch
*Hormigo Negro and Hickory
*Spalted Maple and Birch
*Birdseye Maple and Mahogany
*Cocobolo and Birdseye Maple
Here I am using the spindle sander with a 4" drum to perfect the shape of the plywood pieces which will support the front lower control arms.
I had tried spinning once before (with a bottom whorl spindle) without much success - mostly it's that I didn't give it enough time, but I found the setup frustrating. I watched someone using a top whorl spindle and decided that might be easier, so I am now the proud owner of a beautiful Bosworth midi spindle with a Morado whorl and standard birch shaft. It weighs in at 34 grams. The wood has beautiful color and grain and is perfectly finished - I love it!
These spindle sculptures are a tribute to the nearby garment district in the lower Bathurst and Spadina area in Toronto.
Carved moose antler spindles crafted by Dave Stanbrough.
From left to right:
*Cocobolo and Moose Antler-bottom whorl
*Moose Antler and Cocobolo
*Moose Antler and Honduras Rosewood
*Moose Antler and Ebony
Walnut and tiger maple are the woods chosen by Dave for this beautiful spindle. He has used pyrography (burn etching) to adorn the notched 2 1/2 inch walnut whorl with his signature leaf motif. The overall length of the tiger maple shaft, including the brass hook, is 10 inches and the weight is 1.1 ounce.
Details from a Queen Anne Victorian in Emporia, Kansas. This home is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Shot with an Olympus E-300 and a Meyer-Optik Trioplan manual focus lens.
My Circle Collection for the Macro Monday Challenge on 4/19/2021
If I were guessing, this could have come from river rock along the Mississippi River. I believe it came in a bag of river rock recently purchased. This could be a crude spindle whorl used for weaving. My guess is that it was made by the indigenous inhabitants in the area or Early American settlers.