TIME CRUNCH

This is one of those projects that came about more due to a time crunch than any deliberate plan sandwiched between having completed trimming a group of bowls and a few jars and having to run out for an appointment I was able to make several bottles in just about an hour. Realizing I had to be somewhere in just over an hour I decided to see if I could get something off the cuff completed in that time and this is what I came up with a plan based on  squaring up the ubiquitous gourd form. I initially threw two closed cylinder attending to the gourd form first and then out came the heat gun, ink, a paddle and the rasp and in much less time than expected I had the form mostly as you now see it. Next I threw a small neck on the wheel and cut open the top to accept it with beveled edges meeting at the top shoulder area and the basic idea of the piece was completed then turning my attention to the more straight forward piece which was quicker to finish. Though made with an eye to the clock and somewhat extemporaneously it turned out close to what I saw in my head though admittedly the form may need just a bit of tweak here and there, maybe next time when there is a bit more time to spare.