Feilding


The time at Feilding didn’t really include travelling around so each day was fairly similar. I took off a couple of times for a bit of a break to Feilding and once made it to Palmerston North. Figured this was the only chance I’d get to drive BILITY…and I was right.

Feilding itself seems to be a pretty town and has most of what you’d need – like a decent café or two, of course The Warehouse, New World, Woolworths and a local market where (no surprise here) I brought a bottle (or two) of a local wine. Well it was either that or something healthy like fruit and that just wouldn’t be right.

Feilding was great – so much fun was had that it can’t all be written down and, to be honest, probably can’t all be remembered!!!! I ended up taking heaps of photos over the time at Feilding (well, ok, 1169 photos – go the digital camera). I just walked around taking snaps of people as they were working on their lathes, saws, benches, eating, chatting (a lot of chatting), drinking etc. Taking that many photos meant there was quite a good record of pieces as they were made rather than just the finished item and I think everyone appreciated this. They were then used to help produce a CD for everyone to have so they could all have memories of how collaboration went – who was there and what was made.

Once the 7 teams had made their pieces, all from the same set of rules, it was incredible to see the widely different pieces that were made, and none were the same – far from it.

As always a couple of pieces (not part of the “project”) stood out, in no particular order, just as I thought of them:

All together about 65 pieces were made and sold off via a silent auction at the open day and those pieces not sold (not many) were put into the Feilding Art Gallery for sale.

Following are some random pictures from the time in Feilding!

Gordon's foundry piece:


“Burnt Out” by Scott Whittaker, Guilio Marcolongo, Jan Ottow, Robbie Graham and Dick Veitch.


Ross Vivian and his sculpture:


Platter made by Heather Vivian.


Alan Sanson’s turtle soup. (The turtle is made from an apricot kernel.):


Deon's platter.


Killer Bee by one of the project teams:


The various pieces made by all the crew:


Angler fish – a project piece – in the making.





Rex sanding his cone.



The completed cone:
The Ablution Evolution team and their project piece:




Guilio Marcolongo.


Dick Veitch:


J.R.


Alan Sanson using his scroll saw:


Ken and J.R. having a smoko break.


Bella supervising:


The boys and the lathes.


Feilding 06 Collaboration sign:


Meal time.


Foundry pour.



One of the moulds for Gordon’s foundry piece.


Pewter pour.



THE Chair.

Stuart and Rex (and others) had a great time making “THE Chair” – it was a piece that Rex had wanted to make but there were no keen takers until he mentioned it to Scamp. Of course, Scamp’s idea was too see how LITTLE the two of them could get away with NOT doing by getting others to turn bits of the chair, so in the end:

Design & Production:

Guest Appearance:

Consultant Designer:

Testers:

So it ended up being the work of a number of people that were coerced into doing the actual turning.

Stuart sanding the seat.


Testing begins, does the seat work? Rex and Scamp try it out.



THE Chair in all it's glory.



The Goblet

Then there was the GOBLET. Scamp had this idea that he wanted to make a goblet, so he found an appropriate piece of wood and the turning began…

First select piece of wood.


Use appropriate tools, under strict supervision:


Scamp holding his proto-type:


All together – carefully remove item from the lathe.


The Goblet Team: Will it work?



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